The Cigna Group vs MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC., two Managed Care stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Neither insurer's growth is printed here, but the market's read is: Cigna at 12 times earnings is priced as a stable pharmacy-benefits-and-insurance giant, Molina, with no usable multiple this year, as a Medicaid specialist mid-margin-collapse, its 0.42% net margin the residue of state rate resets lagging medical costs. Cigna's economics are structurally thin but steady, a 2.3% net margin at $75B scale, an 11.8% free-cash yield with the insurance-float caveat attached, a 2.1% dividend, and almost no debt. Molina carries 0.92 turns and earns 4.6% on equity. The pair shows government-adjacent insurance at two temperatures: Cigna's price assumes nothing interesting happens, Molina's assumes recovery, eventually, from a year the industry would rather forget.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | CI | MOH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $282.39 | $229.88 |
| Market cap | $74.6B | $11.7B |
| Sector | Managed Care | Managed Care |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 12.0 | — |
| P/B | 1.76 | 2.87 |
| P/S | 0.27 | 0.26 |
| EV/EBITDA | 5.6 | 16.5 |
| Revenue growth | +8.9% | +8.0% |
| Operating margin | 3.4% | 0.8% |
| Net margin | 2.3% | 0.4% |
| Return on equity | 14.8% | 4.6% |
| Return on assets | 4.1% | 1.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 17.9% | 2.6% |
| FCF yield | 11.8% | 2.1% |
| Dividend yield | 2.1% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.04 | 0.92 |
| Current ratio | 0.82 | 1.63 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.64 | 4.02 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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