---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001071739-24-000158"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNC"
cik: "0001071739"
company_name: "CENTENE CORP"
filed_at: "2024-07-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T15:59:51.531126+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Centene Q2 2024 adjusted EPS $2.42 (+15% YoY); reaffirms FY adj. EPS floor >$6.80

## Summary
- Adjusted diluted EPS $2.42, up 15% from $2.10 in Q2 2023; GAAP diluted EPS $2.16.
- Premium and service revenues $36.0B (+3% YoY); Marketplace membership up 34% to 4.4M; Medicaid membership down to 13.1M.
- HBR 87.6% vs 87.0% YoY, driven by higher Medicaid acuity; FY HBR expected at high end ~87.9%.
- Raises FY premium and service revenue guidance to $141-143B (up $5B); reaffirms adj. diluted EPS floor >$6.80.
- Agreed to sell Collaborative Health Systems to Astrana Health (close by end 2024); repurchased 10.7M shares for $800M in Q2.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001071739-24-000158
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNC
- cik: 0001071739
- company_name: CENTENE CORP
- filed_at: 2024-07-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1071739/000107173924000158/0001071739-24-000158-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1071739/000107173924000158/cnc-20240726.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001071739-24-000158
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001071739-24-000158.txt

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