The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Friday, August 14, 2026

Subject of the day

CNO

Concerning the House

CNO Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, markets, and administers health insurance, annuity, individual life insurance and other insurance products, and financial services for middle-income pre-retiree and retired Americans in the United States. It offers Medicare supplement, supplemental health, and long-term care insurance policies; life insurance; and annuities, as well as Medicare advantage plans to individual consumers through phone, virtually, online, and face-to-face with agents. The company also focuses on sale of voluntary benefit life and health insurance products for businesses, associations, and other membership groups by interacting with customers at their place of employment. In addition, it provides fixed indexed annuities; fixed interest annuities, including fixed rate single-premium deferred annuities; flexible premium deferred annuities; single premium immediate annuities; supplemental health products, such as specified disease, accident, and hospital indemnity products; and long-term care plans primarily to retirees, lesser degree, and older self-employed individuals in the middle-income market. Further, the company offers universal life and other interest-sensitive life products; and traditional life policies that include whole life, graded benefit life, term life, and single premium whole life products, as well as graded benefit life insurance products. It markets its products under the Bankers Life, Washington National, and Colonial Penn brand names. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Carmel, Indiana.

United States · www.cnoinc.com

The Long Run

FY 2010–2025 · 16 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$4.49B+0.2%
Operating income$553.20M+7.0%
Net income$229.30M+11.8%
Cash from ops$627.70M-1.0%
Quotation

$54.85

+0.57 (+1.1%)

52w hi$55.68
52w lo$37.01
Vol344.76K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.48

Short+0.39
Medium+0.56
Long+0.49

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

CNO Financial Group, Inc.

Financial Services · Insurance - Life

Market cap$5.07B
Enterprise value$8.03B
Trailing P/E18.91x
Forward P/E10.91x
EV / EBITDA8.00x
P / S (ttm)1.09x
Profit margin6.0%
Return on equity10.9%
Revenue growth+11.6%
Earnings growth+46.2%
Debt / equity175.66
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.90
Corr SPX0.56
Annual vol26.2%
Annual ret+31.1%
Sharpe1.19
Max DD-16.2%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.30
Sector+0.09
Technical+0.31
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$54.72$55.00$54.37$54.85344.76K
Aug 12$54.59$55.02$54.26$54.28719.20K
Aug 11$55.10$55.48$54.61$54.63570.80K
Aug 10$55.50$55.85$54.86$55.29649.60K
Aug 7$55.09$55.40$54.72$55.16524.90K