Cigna Group

Liquidity

We maintain liquidity at two levels: the subsidiary level and the parent company level.

Cash requirements at the subsidiary level generally consist of:

•pharmacy, medical costs and other benefit payments;

•expense requirements, primarily for employee compensation and benefits, information technology and facilities costs;

•income taxes; and

•debt service.

Our subsidiaries normally meet their liquidity requirements by:

•maintaining appropriate levels of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments;

•using cash flows from operating activities;

•matching investment durations to those estimated for the related insurance and contractholder liabilities;

•selling investments; and

•borrowing from affiliates, subject to applicable regulatory limits.

Cash requirements at the parent company level generally consist of:

•debt service;

•payment of declared dividends to shareholders;

•lending to subsidiaries as needed; and

•pension plan funding.

The parent company normally meets its liquidity requirements by:

•maintaining appropriate levels of cash and various types of marketable investments;

•collecting dividends from its subsidiaries;

•using proceeds from issuing debt and common stock; and

•borrowing from its subsidiaries, subject to applicable regulatory limits.

Dividends from our insurance, Health Maintenance Organization ("HMO") and certain foreign subsidiaries are subject to regulatory restrictions. See Note 22 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for additional information regarding these restrictions. Most of the Evernorth Health Services segment operations are not subject to regulatory restrictions regarding dividends and therefore provide significant financial flexibility to The Cigna Group.

With respect to our investment portfolio, we support the liquidity needs of our businesses by managing the duration of assets to be consistent with the duration of liabilities. We manage the portfolio to both optimize returns in the current economic environment and meet our liquidity needs.

Cash flows were as follows:

The following discussion explains variances in the various categories of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared with the same period in 2022. For comparisons of liquidity and capital resources for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared with the year ended December 31, 2021, please refer to the previously filed MD&A included in Part II, Item 7 of our 2022 Form 10-K.

Operating activities

Cash flows from operating activities consist principally of cash receipts and disbursements for pharmacy revenues and costs, premiums, fees, investment income, taxes, benefit costs and other expenses.

Operating cash flows increased for the year ended December 31, 2023 due to higher insurance related liabilities, acceleration of cash proceeds from the accounts receivable factoring facility, lower income tax payments and higher CMS Part D annual settlement.

Investing activities

The Company invested $2.7 billion in VillageMD in 2023. This, combined with the absence of the net $4.9 billion proceeds received from the Chubb transaction in 2022, resulted in an increase in cash used in investing activities.

Financing activities

The Company had lower share repurchases and lower net debt outflows in 2023. These factors resulted in a decrease in cash used in financing activities in 2023.

Capital Resources

Our capital resources consist primarily of cash, cash equivalents and investments maintained at regulated subsidiaries required to underwrite insurance risks, cash flows from operating activities, our commercial paper program, credit agreements and the issuance of long-term debt and equity securities. Our businesses generate significant cash flow from operations, some of which is subject to regulatory restrictions relative to the amount and timing of dividend payments to the parent company. Dividends received from U.S. regulated subsidiaries were $1.2 billion for the year ended December 31, 2023 and $1.9 billion for the year ended December 31, 2022. This decrease was due in part to lower statutory earnings in 2022 and additional capital held at subsidiaries to support business growth, which is in line with our capital planning. Non-regulated subsidiaries also generate significant cash flow from operating activities, which is typically available immediately to the parent company for general corporate purposes.

We prioritize our use of capital resources to:

•invest in capital expenditures, primarily related to technology to support innovative solutions for our clients and customers, provide the capital necessary to maintain or improve the financial strength ratings of subsidiaries and to repay debt and fund pension obligations if necessary;

•pay dividends to shareholders;

•consider acquisitions and investments that are strategically and economically advantageous; and

•return capital to shareholders through share repurchases.

Funds Available

Commercial Paper Program. The Cigna Group maintains a commercial paper program and may issue short-term, unsecured commercial paper notes privately placed on a discount basis through certain broker-dealers at any time not to exceed an aggregate amount of $5.0 billion. The net proceeds of issuances have been and are expected to be used for general corporate purposes. The commercial paper program had approximately $1.2 billion outstanding at December 31, 2023.

Revolving Credit Agreements. Our revolving credit agreements provide us with the ability to borrow amounts for general corporate purposes, including for the purpose of providing liquidity support if necessary under our commercial paper program discussed above.

As of December 31, 2023, The Cigna Group's revolving credit agreements include: a $4.0 billion five-year revolving credit and letter of credit agreement that expires in April 2028; and a $1.0 billion 364-day revolving credit agreement that expires in April 2024.

As of December 31, 2023, we had $5.0 billion of undrawn committed capacity under our revolving credit agreements (these amounts are available for general corporate purposes, including providing liquidity support for our commercial paper program), $3.8 billion of remaining capacity under our commercial paper program and $8.0 billion in cash and short-term investments, approximately $0.8 billion of which was held by the parent company or certain non-regulated subsidiaries.

See Note 8 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on our credit agreements and commercial paper program.

Our debt-to-capitalization ratio was 40.1% at December 31, 2023 and 41.0% at December 31, 2022.

We actively monitor our debt obligations and engage in issuance or redemption activities as needed in accordance with our capital management strategy.

Subsidiary Borrowings. In addition to the sources of liquidity discussed above, the parent company can borrow an additional $2.2 billion from its subsidiaries without further approvals as of December 31, 2023.

Use of Capital Resources

Long-term debt. In July 2023, we repaid $2.9 billion of senior notes at maturity.

Capital expenditures. Capital expenditures for property, equipment and computer software were $1.6 billion in 2023 compared to $1.3 billion in the year ended December 31, 2022. This increase reflects our continued strategic investment in technology for future growth. We expect to deploy approximately $1.5 billion in capital expenditures in 2024. Anticipated capital expenditures will be funded primarily from operating cash flow.

Dividends. The Cigna Group declared and paid quarterly cash dividends of $1.23 per share of its common stock during 2023, compared to quarterly cash dividends of $1.12 per share during 2022. See Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on our dividend payments. On February 2, 2024, the Board of Directors declared the first quarter cash dividend of $1.40 per share of The Cigna Group common stock to be paid on March 21, 2024 to shareholders of record on March 6, 2024. The Cigna Group currently intends to pay regular quarterly dividends, with future declarations subject to approval by its Board of Directors and the Board's determination that the declaration of dividends remains in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders. The decision of whether to pay future dividends and the amount of any such dividends will be based on the Company's financial position, results of operations, cash flows, capital requirements, the requirements of applicable law and any other factors the Board may deem relevant.

Share repurchases. We maintain a share repurchase program authorized by our Board of Directors, under which we may repurchase shares of our common stock from time to time. The timing and actual number of shares repurchased will depend on a variety of factors including price, general business and market conditions and alternate uses of capital. The share repurchase program may be effected through open market purchases in compliance with Rule 10b-18 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), including through Rule 10b5-1 trading plans or privately negotiated transactions. The program may be suspended or discontinued at any time.

We repurchased 7.8 million shares for approximately $2.3 billion during the year ended December 31, 2023, compared to 27.4 million shares for approximately $7.6 billion during the year ended December 31, 2022. In December 2023, the Board increased repurchase authority by an additional $10.0 billion. We expect to repurchase $5.0 billion of common stock in the first half of 2024. A portion of this repurchase was executed in February 2024 via an Accelerated Share Repurchase ("ASR") as described below.

In February 2024, as part of our existing share repurchase program, we entered into separate ASR agreements ("2024 ASR agreements") with Deutsche Bank AG and Bank of America, N.A. (collectively, the "2024 Counterparties") to repurchase $3.2 billion of common stock in aggregate. We remitted $3.2 billion to the 2024 Counterparties and received an initial delivery of approximately 7.6 million shares of our common stock on February 15, 2024 representing $2.6 billion of the total remitted. We expect final settlement under the 2024 ASR agreements to occur in the second quarter of 2024. See Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on our 2024 ASR agreements.

Including the impact of the 2024 ASR agreements, from January 1, 2024 through February 28, 2024, we repurchased 10.1 million shares for approximately $4.0 billion. Share repurchase authority was $7.3 billion as of February 28, 2024.

Strategic investments. In 2023, we became a minority owner in VillageMD by investing $2.7 billion in VillageMD preferred equity. See Note 12 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of this investment. In July 2023, Evernorth Health, Inc. acquired a minority interest in CHSS. See Note 5 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of this investment.

Pension plans. Our pension plans were overfunded by $204 million and $238 million as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively, and reported in Other assets in our Consolidated Balance Sheets. In 2023, we made immaterial contributions to the qualified pension plans as required under the Pension Protection Act of 2006 and we expect the required contributions for 2024 to be immaterial. See Note 18 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

Other Sources of Funds and Uses of Capital Resources

Divestiture. In January 2024, we entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Stand-Alone Prescription Drug Plans, Medicare and Other Supplemental Benefits and CareAllies businesses within the U.S. Healthcare operating segment to HCSC, subject to applicable regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025 and provide approximately $3.7B in transaction proceeds, which consists primarily of cash proceeds. Following the completion of the sale, we anticipate use of the proceeds in alignment with our capital deployment priorities, with the majority allocated to share repurchases.

Debt Issuance and Debt Tender Offers. On February 5, 2024, we issued $4.5 billion of new senior notes. The proceeds from this debt were used to pay the consideration for the cash tender offers as described below. We intend to use the remaining net proceeds to fund the repayment of our senior notes maturing in March 2024 and for general corporate purposes, which may include repayment of indebtedness and repurchases of shares of our common stock.

Concurrent with the debt issuance, we commenced tender offers to purchase for cash up to $2.25 billion in aggregate principal amount of outstanding notes, which included any and all of the $1.0 billion senior notes due June 2024. Following the early tender results, we increased the tender offers to up to $2.55 billion aggregate principal amount. On February 22, 2024, we purchased $1.8 billion principal amount of notes at early settlement of the tender offers. The tender offers will expire on March 5, 2024.

Risks to Liquidity and Capital Resources

Risks to our liquidity and capital resources outlook include cash projections that may not be realized and the demand for funds could exceed available cash if our ongoing businesses experience unexpected shortfalls in earnings or we experience material adverse effects from one or more risks or uncertainties described more fully in the "Risk Factors" section of this Form 10-K. Though we believe we have adequate sources of liquidity, significant disruption or volatility in the capital and credit markets could affect our ability to access those markets for additional borrowings or increase costs.

Guarantees and Contractual Obligations

We are contingently liable for various contractual obligations and financial and other guarantees entered into in the ordinary course of business. See Note 24 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for discussion of various guarantees.

The Company adopted amended accounting guidance for long-duration insurance contracts effective January 1, 2023, which impacted the amounts presented in our Consolidated Balance Sheets. Within our Consolidated Financial Statements, see Note 2 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a summary of this accounting change and Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a summary of the insurance liabilities in our Consolidated Balance Sheets as well as future expected cash flow information. With the adoption of amended accounting guidance for long-duration insurance contracts and enhanced disclosure within Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, we will no longer present additional information regarding insurance liabilities within this section.

On balance sheet:

•Long-term debt

◦Total scheduled payments on long-term debt are $44.8 billion, which include scheduled interest payments and maturities of long-term debt. This excludes any impact from our February 2024 debt issuance and debt tender offers transactions as described above.

◦We expect $2.8 billion of long-term debt payments (including scheduled interest payments) to be paid within the next twelve months beginning January 1, 2024.

◦Finance leases are included in Long-term debt and primarily represent obligations for information technology network storage, servers and equipment. See Note 21 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for information regarding finance leases.

◦See Note 8 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for information regarding principal maturities of long-term debt.

•Other non-current liabilities

◦These include approximately $335 million of estimated payments (of which we expect $52 million to be paid in the next twelve months beginning January 1, 2024) for other postretirement and postemployment benefit obligations, reinsurance liabilities, supplemental and deferred compensation plans and interest rate and foreign currency swap contracts.

◦In connection with our equity method investment in CarepathRx Health Systems Solutions ("CHSS"), we guaranteed CHSS's credit facilities. See Note 5 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.

◦See Note 18 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on pension obligations and funded status.

•Operating leases

◦These include operating lease payments of $497 million (of which we expect $110 million of operating lease payments to be due within the next twelve months beginning January 1, 2024).

◦See Note 21 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

•Uncertain tax positions

◦In the event we are unable to sustain all of our $1.4 billion of uncertain tax positions, it could result in future tax payments of approximately $950 million. We are adequately reserved for such positions. As a result, there is minimal direct risk to earnings should we fail to sustain our positions. We cannot reasonably estimate the timing of such future payments.

◦See Note 23 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on uncertain tax positions.

Off-balance sheet:

•Purchase obligations

◦These include agreements to purchase goods or services that are enforceable and legally binding. Purchase obligations exclude contracts that are cancellable without penalty and those that do not contractually require minimum levels of goods or services to be purchased.

◦As of December 31, 2023, purchase obligations consisted of a total of $4.3 billion of estimated payments required under contractual arrangements (of which we expect $1.3 billion of purchase obligations to be paid within the next twelve months beginning January 1, 2024). This includes:

▪$2.8 billion of investment commitments (of which we expect $0.7 billion of the committed amounts to be disbursed in 2024).

▪$1.5 billion of future service commitments (of which we expect $0.6 billion of the committed amounts to be disbursed in 2024), primarily comprised of contracts for certain outsourced business processes and information technology maintenance and support.

◦See Note 12 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on investment commitments.