Cigna Corp vs Nomura Holdings Inc — how do they compare? Cigna Corp trades at $273 (market cap $73.56B), while Nomura Holdings Inc trades at $9.8 (market cap $28.46B). The key difference: Cigna Corp is far larger — about 2.6× Nomura Holdings Inc's market cap, and Nomura Holdings Inc pays the higher dividend (3.31%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| CI | NMR | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $73.56B | $28.46B |
Sector | Health | Financials |
52-Week High | $311.00 | $10.04 |
52-Week Low | $244.41 | $6.73 |
Enterprise Value | $98.27B | — |
Dividend Yield | 2.24% | 3.31% |
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Cigna primarily provides pharmacy benefit management and health insurance services. Its PBM services were greatly expanded by its 2018 merger with Express Scripts and are mostly sold to health insurance plans and employers. Its largest PBM contract is the Department of Defense. In health insurance and other benefits, Cigna mostly serves employers through self-funding arrangements, but it also operates in government programs, such as Medicare Advantage. The company operates mostly in the U.S. with 15 million medical members covered as of the end of 2020, but its services extend internationally, covering another 2 million people.
Read more on CI →Nomura is Japan's largest broker, about twice the size of rival Daiwa Securities and roughly three times the size of the securities units of the three megabanks. It is also the largest asset-management company in Japan, with a similar size differential compared with its rivals. Despite its topnotch brand name in retail broking and asset management in Japan, Nomura has struggled to compete effectively in the institutional securities business against larger global rivals. In 2008, Nomura bought European and Asian assets of the failed Lehman Brothers, which led to a sharply higher cost base but did not provide commensurate revenue. Nomura has reduced the scale of these businesses but maintains its ambition to compete globally with the top players.
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