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Saint Louis, Missouri-based Centene Corporation (CNC) operates as a healthcare enterprise, providing programs and services to underinsured and uninsured families, commercial organizations, and military families. With a market cap of $31.7 billion, Centene operates through Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial, and Other segments.
The healthcare plan provider is set to unveil its first-quarter results before the markets open on Friday, Apr. 25. Ahead of the event, analysts project CNC to report a non-GAAP profit of $2.32 per share, up 2.7% from $2.26 per share reported in the year-ago quarter. While the company has missed Street’s bottom-line estimates once over the past four quarters, it has surpassed the projections on three other occasions.