Cigna Corp (CI): Today's Featured Health Care Laggard
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CIGNA Corporation, a health services organization, through its subsidiaries, provides insurance and related products and services in the United States and internationally. Cigna has a market cap of $15.14 billion and is part of the health services industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 9.8, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 24.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Cigna a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Cigna as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance, increase in net income and attractive valuation levels. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.
- You can view the full Cigna Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 18.8%, were all gainers within the health care sector with
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) being today's featured health care sector leader.
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