CVS Health 10-Q 2026-03-31

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

☑ QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2026

or

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from _________ to_________

Commission File Number: 001-01011

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CVS HEALTH CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware05-0494040
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
One CVS Drive, Woonsocket, Rhode Island02895
(Address of principal executive offices)(Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:(401) 765-1500
Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report:N/A

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each classTrading Symbol(s)Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per shareCVSNew York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ☑ Yes ☐ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). ☑ Yes ☐ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer☑Accelerated filer☐
Non-accelerated filer☐Smaller reporting company☐
Emerging growth company☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ☐ Yes ☑ No

As of April 29, 2026, the registrant had 1,275,927,307 shares of common stock issued and outstanding.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part IFinancial Information
Item 1.Financial Statements1
Item 2.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations32
Item 3.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk48
Item 4.Controls and Procedures48
Part IIOther Information
Item 1.Legal Proceedings49
Item 1A.Risk Factors49
Item 2.Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds49
Item 3Defaults Upon Senior Securities49
Item 4.Mine Safety Disclosures49
Item 5.Other Information49
Item 6.Exhibits50
Signatures51

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**Part I.**Financial Information

Item 1. Financial Statements

Index to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

Page
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited) for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 20252
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Unaudited) for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 20253
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited) as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 20254
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 20255
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity (Unaudited) for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 20257
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)8
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm31

Index to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

CVS Health Corporation

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended March 31,
In millions, except per share amounts20262025
Revenues:
Products$62,226$57,669
Premiums33,79132,820
Services3,8353,579
Net investment income574520
Total revenues100,42694,588
Operating costs:
Cost of products sold55,44451,057
Health care costs29,35829,135
Operating expenses10,94411,022
Total operating costs95,74691,214
Operating income4,6803,374
Interest expense(774)(785)
Other income3228
Income before income tax provision3,9382,617
Income tax provision981835
Net income2,9571,782
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests(14)(3)
Net income attributable to CVS Health$2,943$1,779
Net income per share attributable to CVS Health:
Basic$2.31$1.41
Diluted$2.30$1.41
Weighted average shares outstanding:
Basic1,2731,261
Diluted1,2791,264

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements (unaudited).

Index to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

CVS Health Corporation

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income

(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended March 31,
In millions20262025
Net income$2,957$1,782
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Net unrealized investment gains (losses)(244)216
Change in discount rate on long-duration insurance reserves43(33)
Net cash flow hedges(4)(4)
Other comprehensive income (loss)(205)179
Comprehensive income2,7521,961
Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests(14)(3)
Comprehensive income attributable to CVS Health$2,738$1,958

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”)

Overview of Business

CVS Health Corporation, together with its subsidiaries (collectively, “CVS Health,” the “Company,” “we,” “our” or “us”), is a leading health solutions company simplifying health care one person, one family and one community at a time. As of March 31, 2026, the Company had approximately 9,000 retail locations, more than 1,000 walk-in and primary care medical clinics and a leading pharmacy benefits manager with approximately 88 million plan members and expanding specialty pharmacy solutions. The Company also serves an estimated more than 37 million people through a broad range of health insurance products and related services. The Company is creating new sources of value through its integrated model, allowing it to expand into personalized, technology driven care delivery and health services, increasing access to quality care, delivering better health outcomes and lowering overall health care costs.

The Company has four reportable segments: Health Care Benefits, Health Services, Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness and Corporate/Other, which are described below.

Health Care Benefits Segment

The Health Care Benefits segment operates as one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits providers through its Aetna® operations. The Health Care Benefits segment offers a broad range of health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental and behavioral health plans, medical management capabilities, Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans, prescription drug plans (“PDPs”) and Medicaid health care management services. The Company refers to insurance products (where it assumes all or a majority of the risk for medical and dental care costs) as “Insured” and administrative services contract products (where the plan sponsor assumes all or a majority of the risk for medical and dental care costs) as “ASC.”

Health Services Segment

The Health Services segment provides a full range of pharmacy benefit management (“PBM”) solutions through its CVS Caremark® operations and delivers health care services in its medical clinics, virtually, and in the home. PBM solutions include plan design offerings and administration, formulary management, retail pharmacy network management services, and specialty and mail order pharmacy services. In addition, the Company provides clinical services, disease management services, medical spend management and pharmacy and/or other administrative services for providers and federal 340B drug pricing program covered entities (“Covered Entities”). The Company operates a group purchasing organization that negotiates pricing for the purchase of pharmaceuticals and rebates with pharmaceutical manufacturers on behalf of its participants and provides various administrative, management and reporting services to pharmaceutical manufacturers. The segment also works directly with pharmaceutical manufacturers to commercialize and/or co-produce high quality biosimilar products through its CordavisTM subsidiary. The Health Services segment’s health care delivery assets include Signify Health, Inc. (“Signify Health”), a leader in health risk assessments, and Oak Street Health, Inc. (“Oak Street Health”), a leading multi-payor operator of value-based primary care centers serving Medicare eligible patients.

Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness Segment

The Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness segment dispenses prescriptions in its CVS Pharmacy® retail locations and through its infusion operations, provides ancillary pharmacy services including pharmacy patient care programs and vaccination administration, and sells a wide assortment of health and wellness products and general merchandise. The segment also provides pharmacy fulfillment services to support the Health Services segment’s specialty and mail order pharmacy offerings.

Corporate/Other Segment

The Company presents the remainder of its financial results in the Corporate/Other segment, which primarily consists of management and administrative expenses to support the Company’s overall operations and products for which the Company no longer solicits or accepts new customers, such as its large case pensions and long-term care insurance products.

See Note 1 ‘‘Significant Accounting Policies’’ included in Item 1 of this 10-Q and Part 1, Item 1 “Business” included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 (the “2025 Form 10-K”) for further information on the Company’s reportable segments.

Operating Results

The following discussion explains the material changes in the Company’s operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, and the significant developments affecting the Company’s financial condition since December 31, 2025. We strongly recommend that you read our audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, which are included in the 2025 Form 10-K.

Summary of Consolidated Financial Results

Three Months Ended March 31,Change
In millions20262025$%
Revenues:
Products$62,226$57,669$4,5577.9%
Premiums33,79132,8209713.0%
Services3,8353,5792567.2%
Net investment income5745205410.4%
Total revenues100,42694,5885,8386.2%
Operating costs:
Cost of products sold55,44451,0574,3878.6%
Health care costs29,35829,1352230.8%
Operating expenses10,94411,022(78)

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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

The Company has not experienced any material changes in exposures to market risk since December 31, 2025. See the information contained in Part II, Item 7A “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 for a discussion of the Company’s exposures to market risk.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures: The Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, after evaluating the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a‑15(f) and 15d‑15(f)) as of March 31, 2026, have concluded that as of such date the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were adequate and effective and designed to provide reasonable assurance that material information relating to the Company and its subsidiaries would be made known to such officers on a timely basis.

Changes in internal control over financial reporting: There has been no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by paragraph (d) of Rule 13a-15 or Rule 15d-15 that occurred in the three months ended March 31, 2026 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

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**Part II.**Other Information

**Item 1.**Legal Proceedings

The information contained in Note 8 ‘‘Commitments and Contingencies’’ contained in “Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)” in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

There have been no material changes to the “Risk Factors” disclosed in Part I, Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. Those risk factors could adversely affect the Company’s businesses, operating results, cash flows and/or financial condition as well as the market price of CVS Health Corporation’s common stock.

**Item 2.**Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

(c) Stock Repurchases

The following table presents the total number of shares purchased in the three months ended March 31, 2026, the average price paid per share and the approximate dollar value of shares that still could have been purchased at the end of the applicable fiscal period, pursuant to the share repurchase programs authorized by CVS Health Corporation’s Board of Directors on November 17, 2022 and December 9, 2021. See Note 5 ‘‘Shareholders’ Equity’’ contained in “Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)” in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for additional information.

Fiscal PeriodTotal Number of Shares PurchasedAverage Price Paid per ShareTotal Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or ProgramsApproximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
January 1, 2026 through January 31, 2026—$——$11,500,000,143
February 1, 2026 through February 28, 2026—$——$11,500,000,143
March 1, 2026 through March 31, 2026—$——$11,500,000,143
——

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not Applicable.

Item 5. Other Information

Securities Trading Plans of Directors and Executive Officers

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, none of our directors or executive officers adopted or terminated any contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of CVS Health Corporation securities that was intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) or any “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement.”

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Item 6. Exhibits

The exhibits listed in this Item 6 are filed as part of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Exhibits marked with an asterisk (*) are management contracts or compensatory plans or arrangements. Exhibits other than those listed are omitted because they are not required to be listed or are not applicable. Pursuant to Item 601(b)(4)(iii) of Regulation S-K, the Registrant hereby agrees to furnish to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a copy of any omitted instrument that is not required to be listed.

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

10Material contracts
10.1*Restrictive Covenant Agreement dated November 15, 2024 between the Registrant and Steven H. Nelson.
10.2*Change in Control Agreement effective as of November 15, 2024 between the Registrant and Steven H. Nelson.
10.3*Restrictive Covenant Agreement dated March 29, 2025 between the Registrant and Brian Newman.
10.4*Change in Control Agreement effective as of April 1, 2025 between the Registrant and Brian Newman.
10.5*†The Registrant’s Severance Plan for Non-Store Employees, Amended and Restated as of March 15, 2026.
10.6*Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement between the Registrant and selected employees of the Registrant.
10.7*Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement between the Registrant and selected executives of the Registrant.
10.8*Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement between the Registrant and selected employees of the Registrant.
10.9*†Form of Performance Stock Unit Agreement between the Registrant and selected employees of the Registrant.
15Letter re: unaudited interim financial information
15.1Letter from Ernst & Young LLP acknowledging awareness of the use of a report dated May 6, 2026 related to their reviews of interim financial information.
31Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certifications
31.1Certification by the Chief Executive Officer.
31.2Certification by the Chief Financial Officer.
32Section 1350 Certifications
32.1Certification by the Chief Executive Officer.
32.2Certification by the Chief Financial Officer.
101
101The following materials from the CVS Health Corporation Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2026 formatted in Inline XBRL: (i) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, (ii) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income, (iii) the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iv) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, (v) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity and (vi) the related Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. The instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document.
104
104Cover Page Interactive Data File - The cover page from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, formatted in Inline XBRL (included as Exhibit 101).

† The appendixes to this exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Regulation S-K Item 601(a)(5). The Registrant agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of all omitted appendixes to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon its request.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

CVS HEALTH CORPORATION
Date:May 6, 2026By:/s/ Brian O. Newman
Brian O. Newman
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer