ELV

Elevance Health Inc

434.13

Oct 21 • 3:59 PM ET -6.05 (-1.37%)

434.48

Aftermarket • 7:45 PM ET +0.35 (0.08%)

Healthcare Healthcare Plans USA Large NYSE

Oct 21, 12:03 PMElevance Health beats Q3 and raises 2026 EPS guidance and 2027 baseline on Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and ACA margin outperformance

Peers: CI UNH HUM CNC CVS MOH OSCR ALHC CLOV HCA

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Index	S&P 500
Market Cap	94.15B
Enterprise Value	-
Income	5.14B
Sales	201.83B
Book/sh	206.75
Cash/sh	-
Dividend Est.	6.89 (1.59%)
Dividend TTM	6.87 (1.58%)
Dividend Ex-Date	Sep 10, 2026
Dividend Gr. 3/5Y	10.14% 12.47%
Payout	27.13%
Employees	97100
IPO	Oct 30, 2001

P/E	18.51
Forward P/E	14.54
PEG	3.44
P/S	0.47
P/B	2.10
P/C	-
P/FCF	14.45
EV/EBITDA	-
EV/Sales	-
Quick Ratio	-
Current Ratio	1.47
Debt/Eq	0.69
LT Debt/Eq	0.68
Option/Short	Yes / Yes

EPS (ttm)	23.46
EPS next Y	29.86
EPS next Q	2.30
EPS this Y	-7.93%
EPS next Y	7.09%
EPS next 5Y	4.23%
EPS past 3/5Y	1.27% 6.99%
Sales past 3/5Y	8.34% 10.32%
EPS Y/Y TTM	-4.37%
Sales Y/Y TTM	3.60%
EPS Q/Q	18.02%
Sales Q/Q	1.42%
Earnings	Oct 21 BMO
EPS/Sales Surpr.	48.28% 2.35%

Insider Own	0.23%
Insider Trans	0.34%
Inst Own	94.72%
Inst Trans	0.73%
ROA	4.10%
ROE	11.60%
ROIC	6.85%
Gross Margin	-
Oper. Margin	3.81%
Profit Margin	2.55%
SMA20	6.04%
SMA50	6.85%
SMA200	17.21%
Trades

Shs Outstand	216.87M
Shs Float	216.36M
Short Float	2.24%
Short Ratio	4.30
Short Interest	4.85M
52W High	440.67 -1.48%
52W Low	274.84 57.96%
Volatility	2.78% 2.64%
ATR (14)	11.30
RSI (14)	66.37
Beta	0.65
Rel Volume	2.19
Avg Volume	1.13M
Volume	2,475,615

Perf Week	1.41%
Perf Month	7.88%
Perf Quarter	14.45%
Perf Half Y	32.28%
Perf YTD	23.84%
Perf Year	24.13%
Perf 3Y	-4.33%
Perf 5Y	0.86%
Perf 10Y	251.52%
Recom	1.88
Target Price	459.86
Prev Close	440.18
Price	434.13
Change %	-1.37%

Date	Action	Analyst	Rating Change	Price Target Change
May-20-26	Upgrade	Deutsche Bank	Hold → Buy	$498
Apr-29-26	Upgrade	BofA Securities	Neutral → Buy	$435
Apr-08-26	Initiated	Evercore ISI	In-line	$345
Feb-03-26	Downgrade	RBC Capital Mkts	Outperform → Sector Perform	$358
Jan-08-26	Upgrade	Wolfe Research	Peer Perform → Outperform	$425
Dec-19-25	Downgrade	Deutsche Bank	Buy → Hold	$320
Oct-14-25	Initiated	Goldman	Neutral
Jul-21-25	Downgrade	Argus	Buy → Hold
Jul-18-25	Downgrade	Leerink Partners	Outperform → Market Perform	$310
Apr-15-25	Downgrade	Robert W. Baird	Outperform → Neutral	$529
Mar-17-25	Upgrade	Argus	Hold → Buy	$450
Jan-22-25	Downgrade	Stephens	Overweight → Equal-Weight	$520 → $440
Oct-18-24	Downgrade	Argus	Buy → Hold
Jul-18-24	Downgrade	BofA Securities	Buy → Neutral	$646 → $530
Jun-24-24	Initiated	Morgan Stanley	Overweight	$643
May-30-24	Initiated	Robert W. Baird	Outperform	$649
Mar-06-24	Initiated	Barclays	Overweight	$584
Jul-12-23	Downgrade	Wolfe Research	Outperform → Peer Perform
Apr-27-23	Upgrade	Morgan Stanley	Equal-Weight → Overweight	$500 → $571
Apr-21-23	Initiated	Cantor Fitzgerald	Overweight	$547

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Oct-21-26 04:46PM	2 Healthcare Stocks to Buy After Crushing Q3 Earnings Expectations: ELV & ISRG (Zacks)
12:57PM	Elevance Health Inc. Q3 2026 Earnings Call Summary (Moby)
11:06AM	Elevance Health's 41% Beat Leans On Investment Income, But A Higher 2026 Baseline Is The Real Upgrade (Earnings Whispers)
09:53AM	Elevance Health Shares Rise as Third-Quarter Earnings Beat Estimates and 2026 Guidance Increases (InvestorsHub)
07:30AM	Elevance Health Names Jeff Park President of Carelon (Business Wire)
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07:03AM	Elevance Health Raises Yearly Outlook as Profit, Revenue Rise (The Wall Street Journal)
06:40AM	Elevance Health beats estimates, raises guidance (Investing.com)
06:07AM	Elevance Health: Q3 Earnings Snapshot (Associated Press)
06:00AM	Elevance Tops Earnings Expectations and Lifts Guidance (Barrons.com)
06:00AM	Elevance Health Reports Third Quarter 2026 Results; Raises Full-Year Guidance (Business Wire)
Oct-16-26 10:54AM	Where Could UnitedHealth's Next Growth Come From? (Trefis)
Oct-15-26 09:14AM	What Happened With UnitedHealth Stock This Week? (Trefis)
Oct-13-26 06:03AM	UnitedHealth keeps medical costs under control - and raises its outlook again (MarketWatch)
Oct-12-26 03:45PM	Humana leads Managed Care winners in new CMS Star Ratings - Evercore (Investing.com)
09:41AM	Salesforce upgraded, Adobe downgraded: Wall Street's top analyst calls (The Fly)
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Oct-09-26 09:13AM	Is Clover Health Stock Too Dependent On One Group Of Members? (Trefis)
Oct-05-26 08:00AM	Elevance Health to Hold Conference Call and Webcast to Discuss Third Quarter 2026 Results on October 21, 2026 (Business Wire)
Oct-02-26 04:24AM	How Much Downside Is Left In CVS Health Stock? (Trefis)
Oct-01-26 07:00AM	Elevance Health's Affiliated 2027 Medicare Advantage Plans Advance Stability, Choice and More Coordinated Support (Business Wire)
Sep-30-26 02:39PM	Elevance cracks down on hospital billing for off-campus care (Healthcare Dive)
Sep-29-26 02:25PM	What Are UNH Stock Investors Betting On? (Trefis)
Sep-24-26 12:34PM	What Should CVS Stock Investors Be Watching Now? (Trefis)
Sep-23-26 05:06PM	Liberty HealthShares Dorsey Morrow Makes the Financial Case for Healthsharing on Beckers Healthcare Podcast (Exec Edge)
12:26PM	Did UnitedHealth Name The Fix Before Its Stock Ran? (Trefis)
Sep-22-26 02:09PM	Can UNH Stock Keep Growing Earnings While Its Sales Stall? (Trefis)
Sep-18-26 08:15AM	Should You Buy CVS Stock For The Margin Aetna Is Rebuilding? (Trefis)
Sep-16-26 01:16PM	The One Cost Line UnitedHealth Stock Has Not Caught Up To Yet (Trefis)
Sep-14-26 05:10PM	CVS Stock Returned $24B In Cash: Why Did It Still Lag The Market? (Trefis)
03:41PM	Should You Buy UNH Stock Because Its Cash Runs Ahead Of Its Profit? (Trefis)
Sep-11-26 09:38AM	Up 36% in the Last 12 Months, Does Elevance Health Stock Have More Room to Run Through 2028? (TIKR)
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Sep-10-26 04:30PM	Elevance Health Inc. stock outperforms competitors on strong trading day (MarketWatch)
03:36PM	Should You Buy Elevance Health Stock For The Margin It Lost? (Trefis)
07:04AM	Elevance Health Inc's Dividend Analysis (GuruFocus.com)
Sep-09-26 03:30PM	Why Is UNH Stock Trading At A Premium With The Slowest Growth? (Trefis)
Sep-03-26 01:35PM	UnitedHealth Stock Recovered Before Its Margins Did (Trefis)
10:45AM	CVS Stock Has Left Its Peers Behind. Or Has It? (Trefis)
Aug-31-26 02:25PM	UNH Stock Gets Cheaper Only If The Margins Come Back (Trefis)
Aug-28-26 02:06PM	Is CVS Stock Set for a Rebound? (Trefis)
Aug-27-26 07:26PM	Can a $68 Billion Payout Save UNH Stock? (Trefis)
Aug-25-26 05:27AM	Elevances behavioral health division nabs new president (Healthcare Dive)
Aug-24-26 01:04PM	UnitedHealth Stock's Biggest Risk Sits In The Commercial Book (Trefis)
Aug-21-26 04:58PM	Is The Pullback In UNH Stock A Glitch Or A Warning? (Trefis)
Aug-13-26 05:50PM	The Signs Before UnitedHealth Stock Ran Were In Its Own Exit Plan (Trefis)
05:14PM	'I didn't know what else to do:' Patients take their health-insurance battles to Facebook and LinkedIn (MarketWatch)
05:09PM	CVS Health Stock's Next Leg Sits In Aetna's Unfinished Margin Repair (Trefis)
Aug-07-26 04:40PM	UNH Leads Its Peer Group. You Pay For That (Trefis)
Aug-05-26 11:50AM	The Case For UnitedHealth Stock Is Margin, Not Growth (Trefis)
Aug-03-26 04:17PM	CVS Health Stock Surged On An Aetna Recovery That Management Had Already Sized (Trefis)
Jul-31-26 10:36AM	UnitedHealth Stock Ran On A Repricing The Company Described In Advance (Trefis)
03:00AM	Elevance Healths CEO started her career as a pro basketball player. Now shes the highestranking woman on the Global 500, leading a $199B giant (Fortune)
Jul-24-26 04:56PM	The Real Price of UnitedHealth Stock Is Two Years Away (Trefis)
Jul-22-26 04:45PM	This Medicaid Insurer's Stock Has Climbed in 2026. Investors Still Have Doubts. (Barrons.com)
Jul-21-26 05:26PM	The Hidden Engine Behind Elevance Health Stock's Next Climb (Trefis)
04:33PM	What Kept Coming Up When Analysts Grilled UNH (Trefis)
Jul-20-26 10:43AM	The Real Risk Inside UnitedHealth Stock (Trefis)
Jul-17-26 06:20PM	Elevance Health CEO Snaps Up Stock After Post-Earnings Slide (Barrons.com)
06:09PM	What A Patient Holder Is Really Paying For CVS Health Stock (Trefis)
06:02PM	What's A Strong Quarter Worth When Elevance Health Is Ditching Its Own Markets? (Trefis)
Jul-16-26 10:54AM	UnitedHealth stock jumps on Q2 earnings, raises full-year outlook (Yahoo Finance Video)
09:19AM	The Medicaid Problem That Swallowed an Earnings Beat (Trefis)
08:30AM	The Medicaid Problem Weighing On Elevance Health Stock (Trefis)
08:30AM	The Real Price of Admission for CVS Health Stock (Trefis)
Jul-15-26 05:00PM	Elevance Health Inc (ELV) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Highlights: Strong EPS Growth and Strategic ... (GuruFocus.com) -8.54%
04:30PM	Elevance Health Inc. stock underperforms Wednesday when compared to competitors (MarketWatch)
09:36AM	Health insurance stocks slide after Elevance highlights margin pressures (ELV) (InvestorsHub)
08:59AM	Why Elevance Earnings Gave Health Insurance Stocks A Cold; UNH Up Next (Investor's Business Daily)
08:29AM	Elevance Health beats second-quarter forecasts but shares slide on margin pressure (ELV) (InvestorsHub)
07:21AM	Insurance stocks fall after Elevance Health results show margin pressure (Investing.com)
06:48AM	Elevance Health beats estimates but shares tumble as margins drop (Investing.com)
06:44AM	Elevance Health Raises Earnings Outlook on Higher Sales (The Wall Street Journal)
06:10AM	Elevance Health: Q2 Earnings Snapshot (Associated Press)
06:00AM	Elevance Health Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results; Raises Full-Year Guidance (Business Wire)
Jul-14-26 06:07PM	Elevance Is Overcoming Medicare Advantage Hurdles. Earnings Could Show It. (Barrons.com)
Jul-13-26 01:54PM	The Premium On CVS Stock Vs What Its Peers Deliver (Trefis)
03:00AM	Elevance and UnitedHealth Earnings Are Next Test for Hot Health Insurer Stocks (Barrons.com)
Jul-10-26 07:55AM	UNH Showered Owners With Cash. The Stock Did Not Cooperate (Trefis)
Jul-09-26 09:47AM	The Real Price Of UnitedHealth Stock Isn't On Today's Label (Trefis)
Jul-06-26 04:30PM	Elevance Health to Hold Conference Call and Webcast to Discuss Second Quarter 2026 Results on July 15, 2026 (Business Wire)
12:11PM	What CVS Health Stock Was Telling You About Its Three-Dollar Earnings Prize (Trefis)
Jul-03-26 08:20AM	The Unpopular Move That Telegraphed the Elevance Health Stock Surge (Trefis)
Jul-02-26 10:46AM	Elevance sues CMS after Medicare Advantage stars recalculation (Healthcare Dive)
Jul-01-26 04:30PM	Elevance Health Inc. stock outperforms competitors on strong trading day (MarketWatch) +7.62%
Jun-30-26 08:49AM	Plus Therapeutics to rebrand as Cerenome and adopt CNSY ticker on August 3 (PSTV) (InvestorsHub)
Jun-17-26 10:00AM	Elevance Health Announces $640 Million Investment in Affordable Housing Over the Past Five Years, Surpassing $1 Billion in Total Commitment Nationwide (Business Wire)
05:30AM	The Medicare Crisis for Insurers Is Over. The Easy Gains Are Too. (The Wall Street Journal)
Jun-16-26 11:44AM	Why Did UnitedHealth Stock Choose Pain Over Growth? (Trefis)
Jun-05-26 04:20PM	Can UNH Stock Sustain Its Recent 40% Rally? (Trefis)
Jun-04-26 12:38PM	UnitedHealth Stock Rises. Why the Health Insurer Is Leading the Dow to Sharp Gains. (Barrons.com)
Jun-01-26 04:54AM	Elevance again avoids Medicare Advantage sanctions, but threat remains (Healthcare Dive)
May-20-26 09:43AM	Cigna downgraded, Humana upgraded: Wall Street's top analyst calls (The Fly)
09:35AM	Deutsche Bank sees new upswing for health insurers after years of margin pressure (Investing.com)
May-07-26 08:47PM	Myomo, Inc. Q1 2026 Earnings Call Summary (Moby)
May-04-26 02:10PM	Elevance Health Advances Efforts to Close Critical Gaps in Mental Health Care (Business Wire)
Apr-30-26 08:00AM	Elevance Healths Affiliated Health Plans Deliver More Predictable, Lower Healthcare Costs for Small Businesses (Business Wire)
Apr-29-26 02:06PM	Elevance Health and 2 More Stocks to Buy. Better Days Are Ahead for Medicaid Providers. (Barrons.com)
07:34AM	Analysts upgrade Elevance, Centene shares as Medicaid margins expected to recover (Investing.com)
Apr-23-26 08:03AM	Molina controls costs in Q1 but future Medicaid spending in doubt (Healthcare Dive) +5.51%
03:02AM	Elevance Health Inc (ELV) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Highlights: Strong EPS Growth and Raised Guidance (GuruFocus.com)
Apr-22-26 12:45PM	Elevance Health Inc. Q1 2026 Earnings Call Summary (Moby)
07:55AM	Elevance perks up in 2026 though Medicare Advantage payout could ding profits (Healthcare Dive)

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Insider Trading	Relationship	Date	Transaction	Cost	#Shares	Value ($)	#Shares Total	SEC Form 4
PERU RAMIRO G	Director	Jul 17 '26	Buy	366.05	1,000	366,050	10,908	Jul 17 03:04 PM
BOUDREAUX GAIL	President and CEO	Jul 17 '26	Buy	367.79	2,725	1,002,230	171,976	Jul 17 01:50 PM
CLARK R KERRY	Director	Jul 07 '26	Proposed Sale	419.91	1,500	629,865		Jul 07 04:58 PM
Penczek Ronald W	CAO & Controller	Jun 12 '26	Sale	403.16	369	148,766	3,740	Jun 15 04:10 PM
RONALD WILLIAM PENCZEK	Officer	Jun 12 '26	Proposed Sale	403.16	369	148,767		Jun 12 05:27 PM
Dixon Robert L JR	Director	Jun 11 '26	Sale	401.77	151	60,667	10,734	Jun 12 04:12 PM
Dixon Robert L JR	Director	Jun 11 '26	Proposed Sale	401.76	151	60,666		Jun 11 05:10 PM
Penczek Ronald W	CAO & Controller	May 19 '26	Option Exercise	294.30	1,531	450,579	5,640	May 20 04:11 PM
Penczek Ronald W	CAO & Controller	May 19 '26	Sale	403.13	1,531	617,192	4,109	May 20 04:11 PM
RONALD WILLIAM PENCZEK	Officer	May 19 '26	Proposed Sale	403.13	1,531	617,192		May 19 04:25 PM
SCHULMAN AMY W	Director	Mar 12 '26	Sale	287.50	26	7,475	218	Mar 23 04:10 PM
Kendrick Charles Morgan JR	EVP & President, Commercial	Mar 06 '26	Sale	284.92	3,196	910,604	11,791	Mar 09 04:45 PM
CHARLES MORGAN KENDRICK	Officer	Mar 06 '26	Proposed Sale	284.92	3,196	910,593		Mar 06 04:17 PM
COLLIS STEVEN H	Director	Mar 05 '26	Buy	289.84	3,000	869,520	3,639	Mar 06 08:03 AM

Elevance Health, Inc. operates as a health company, which engages in improving lives and communities, and making healthcare simpler. It operates through the following segments: Health Benefits, CarelonRx, Carelon Services, and Corporate and Other. The Health Benefits segment offers a comprehensive suite of health plans and services to different customers. The CarelonRx segment markets and offers pharmacy services to affiliated health plan customers, as well as to external customers. The Carelon Services segment integrates physical, behavioral, pharmacy, and social services with the aim of delivering whole health affordably by offering a broad array of healthcare related services. The Corporate & Other segment includes businesses that do not individually meet the quantitative threshold for an operating segment. The company was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

PresidentMs. Gail Koziara Boudreaux

Executive VP & CFOMr. Mark Bradley Kaye

Special AdvisorMr. Peter David Haytaian Esq.

EVP and President of Commercial & Specialty Health BenefitsMr. Charles Morgan Kendrick Jr.

Executive VP & Chief Health Benefits OfficerMs. Felicia Farr Norwood

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