HUMANA INC vs MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC., two Managed Care stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Both prices bet on recovery from the same Medicare-and-Medicaid margin trough, and neither company has trailing earnings sturdy enough for a clean multiple: Humana's net margin sits at 0.82%, Molina's at 0.42%, rate resets and utilization having done to both what they did to the whole government-insurance complex. Scale separates the bets, $46B against $12B, and mix: Humana is Medicare Advantage with a CenterWell care arm, Molina pure Medicaid-and-marketplace. Humana pays a 0.9% dividend through the trough; Molina pays none. Debt is a matched 0.75-0.92 turns. The pair is one wager written twice, that government rates re-normalize, sized large-cap and mid-cap.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | HUM | MOH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $383.89 | $229.88 |
| Market cap | $46.3B | $11.7B |
| Sector | Managed Care | Managed Care |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| P/B | 2.48 | 2.87 |
| P/S | 0.34 | 0.26 |
| EV/EBITDA | 17.3 | 16.5 |
| Revenue growth | +13.9% | +8.0% |
| Operating margin | 4.4% | 0.8% |
| Net margin | 0.8% | 0.4% |
| Return on equity | 6.1% | 4.6% |
| Return on assets | 2.0% | 1.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 5.9% | 2.6% |
| FCF yield | 2.8% | 2.1% |
| Dividend yield | 0.9% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.75 | 0.92 |
| Current ratio | 1.77 | 1.63 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.47 | 4.02 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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