Centene is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. provides services to government-sponsored and commercial healthcare programs, focusing on under-insured and uninsured individuals. Co. also provides education and outreach programs to inform and assist members in accessing healthcare services. Co. operates in two segments: Managed Care and Specialty Services. Co.'s Managed Care segment provides health plan coverage to individuals through government subsidized and commercial programs. Co.'s Specialty Services segment includes companies providing healthcare services and products to its Managed Care segment and other external customers.
When researching a stock like Centene, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from CNC Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for CNC stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of these ways is called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI. This popular indicator, originally developed in the 1970's by J. Welles Wilder, looks at a 14-day moving average of a stock's gains on its up days, versus its losses on its down days. The resulting CNC RSI is a value that measures momentum, oscillating between "oversold" and "overbought" on a scale of zero to 100. A reading below 30 is viewed to be oversold, which a bullish investor could look to as a sign that the selling is in the process of exhausting itself, and look for entry point opportunities. A reading above 70 is viewed to be overbought, which could indicate that a rally in progress is starting to get crowded with buyers. If the rally has been a long one, that could be a sign that a pullback is overdue. |
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