Insurance services company CNO Financial Group (NYSE:CNO) will be reporting results this Thursday afternoon. Here’s what to expect.
CNO Financial Group met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $964.9 million, up 2.5% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ book value per share estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting CNO Financial Group’s revenue to be flat year on year at $998.4 million, slowing from the 7.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.21 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. CNO Financial Group has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at CNO Financial Group’s peers in the insurance segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Prudential delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 11.6%, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Horace Mann Educators reported revenues up 6.3%, falling short of estimates by 2.5%.
Read our full analysis of Prudential’s results here and Horace Mann Educators’s results here.
Debates around the economy’s health and the impact of potential tariffs and corporate tax cuts have caused much uncertainty in 2025. While some of the insurance stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.3% on average over the last month. CNO Financial Group is down 1.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $47.25 (compared to the current share price of $42.31).
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