Health insurance company Cigna (NYSE:CI) will be reporting earnings this Thursday before the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Cigna beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 8.4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $65.5 billion, up 14.4% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a decent beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ customer base estimates. It lost -1.14 million customers and ended up with a total of 16.36 million.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Cigna’s revenue to grow 2.9% year on year to $62.21 billion, slowing from the 24.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $7.15 per share.

The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Cigna has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years by 4.2% on average.
Looking at Cigna’s peers in the health insurance providers segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Centene delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 22.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 11.6%, and Molina Healthcare reported revenues up 15.7%, topping estimates by 4.4%. Centene’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Molina Healthcare was down 16.9%.
Read our full analysis of Centene’s results here and Molina Healthcare’s results here.
Investors in the health insurance providers segment have had fairly steady hands going into earnings, with share prices down 1.8% on average over the last month. Cigna is down 11.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $374.92 (compared to the current share price of $293).
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