The Cigna Groupvs.Cencora
CI vs COR · both in Distribution & pharmacy infrastructure, part of the Medicine, pharma & life science value chain: Wholesalers, distribution and pharmacy chains that get medicines to patients.
The Cigna Group is about 1.2× larger than Cencora by market cap; The Cigna Group trades at the lower P/E (11.5 vs 22.5); year to date, The Cigna Group leads (+1.9% vs −4.1%).
Supply-chain link: Cencora supplies The Cigna Group.
Side by side
| CI | COR | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $73.9B | $59.2B |
| Price | $279.32 | $328.06 |
| Today | −0.4% | +1.3% |
| Return YTD | +1.9% | −4.1% |
| Return 1Y | −7.9% | +10.7% |
| P/E | 11.5 | 22.5 |
| P/S | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| P/B | 1.7 | 19.4 |
Data as of 2026-08-26 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
The Cigna GroupCI
Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefit manager, sits at the centre. Around it Cigna writes health insurance and runs a specialty pharmacy and distribution business.
Full CI profile →CencoraCOR
Known as AmerisourceBergen until the rebrand, Cencora distributes medicines and specialty drugs to the healthcare sector and sells services to pharmacies.
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