CVS Stock is an Outperformer Compared to CI & S&P 500 Year to date, CVS Health shares have surged 39.7%, significantly outpacing both Cigna’s 14.7% gain and the S&P 500’s 1.3% decline.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a first-in-the-nation law that would prohibit companies that own PBMs from also operating both retail and mail-order pharmacies in Arkansas.

CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) and Cigna (NYSE:CI), which operate some of the largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the U.S., have sued Arkansas, seeking to block a state law that is set to ban PBMs ...