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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CNO CNO Financial Group	$37.48 -0.5%	$38.00	$27.24 ▼ $43.20	$3.71B	0.89	702,583 shs	105,128 shs
LNC Lincoln National	$32.93 -0.7%	$32.78	$27.58 ▼ $39.85	$5.62B	1.4	1.64 million shs	429,864 shs
PFG Principal Financial Group	$77.37 -0.7%	$76.75	$68.39 ▼ $91.98	$17.34B	1	1.32 million shs	135,227 shs
UNM Unum Group	$78.53 -1.1%	$79.49	$49.63 ▼ $84.48	$13.69B	0.43	1.33 million shs	163,534 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CNO CNO Financial Group	-1.37%	+2.08%	+1.28%	-11.06%	+33.86%
LNC Lincoln National	+0.86%	+0.85%	+2.34%	-11.45%	+2.63%
PFG Principal Financial Group	+0.78%	+2.81%	+1.19%	-8.96%	-3.59%
UNM Unum Group	-0.74%	+2.16%	-0.56%	-3.51%	+55.91%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
CNO CNO Financial Group	4.2445 of 5 stars	1.1	3.0	2.5	4.2	2.9	2.5	2.5
LNC Lincoln National	4.9879 of 5 stars	3.0	4.0	3.3	3.7	2.5	2.5	4.4
PFG Principal Financial Group	3.8766 of 5 stars	2.0	0.0	3.3	0.0	2.8	1.7	3.8
UNM Unum Group	4.9628 of 5 stars	3.4	3.0	4.2	3.5	3.7	2.5	2.5

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CNO CNO Financial Group	2.17	Hold	$41.00	9.39% Upside
LNC Lincoln National	2.00	Hold	$36.82	11.81% Upside
PFG Principal Financial Group	2.00	Hold	$83.85	8.38% Upside
UNM Unum Group	2.79	Moderate Buy	$88.29	12.42% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest UNM, CNO, PFG, and LNC Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
5/23/2025	UNM Unum Group	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$91.00 ➝ $89.00
5/19/2025	LNC Lincoln National	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$32.00 ➝ $38.00
5/19/2025	PFG Principal Financial Group	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Underweight ➝ Underweight	$67.00 ➝ $71.00
5/19/2025	UNM Unum Group	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$76.00 ➝ $83.00
5/9/2025	LNC Lincoln National	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$38.00 ➝ $36.00
5/9/2025	LNC Lincoln National	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$38.00 ➝ $40.00
5/7/2025	PFG Principal Financial Group	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Market Perform ➝ Market Perform	$86.00 ➝ $87.00
5/6/2025	PFG Principal Financial Group	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Underweight ➝ Underweight	$65.00 ➝ $67.00
5/1/2025	UNM Unum Group	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$95.00 ➝ $97.00
4/29/2025	PFG Principal Financial Group	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Market Perform ➝ Market Perform	$88.00 ➝ $86.00
4/29/2025	PFG Principal Financial Group	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Underweight ➝ Underweight	$68.00 ➝ $69.00

(Data available from 6/25/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CNO CNO Financial Group	$4.45B	0.84	$4.08 per share	9.18	$24.21 per share	1.55
LNC Lincoln National	$18.44B	0.30	$7.73 per share	4.26	$42.75 per share	0.77
PFG Principal Financial Group	$15.77B	1.10	$9.78 per share	7.91	$49.35 per share	1.57
UNM Unum Group	$12.89B	1.06	$10.28 per share	7.64	$60.02 per share	1.31

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
CNO CNO Financial Group	$404M	$2.86	13.10	8.80	N/A	7.11%	17.86%	1.21%	8/4/2025 (Estimated)
LNC Lincoln National	$3.28B	$7.04	4.68	3.94	0.43	7.00%	18.71%	0.35%	8/7/2025 (Estimated)
PFG Principal Financial Group	$1.57B	$4.67	11.58	8.32	0.76	9.74%	14.68%	0.52%	N/A
UNM Unum Group	$1.78B	$8.49	9.25	7.96	1.25	12.31%	14.17%	2.46%	7/29/2025 (Estimated)

Latest UNM, CNO, PFG, and LNC Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/8/2025	Q1 2025	LNC Lincoln National	$1.54	$1.60	+$0.06	-$4.41	$4.71 billion	$4.69 billion
4/29/2025	Q1 2025	UNM Unum Group	$2.19	$2.04	-$0.15	$1.06	$3.34 billion	$3.09 billion
4/28/2025	Q1 2025	CNO CNO Financial Group	$0.79	$0.79	N/A	$0.13	$975.80 million	$1.00 billion
4/28/2025	N/A	PFG Principal Financial Group	$1.83	$1.81	-$0.02	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CNO CNO Financial Group	$0.68	1.81%	N/A	23.78%	2 Years
LNC Lincoln National	$1.80	5.47%	N/A	25.57%	N/A
PFG Principal Financial Group	$3.04	3.93%	N/A	65.10%	2 Years
UNM Unum Group	$1.68	2.14%	N/A	19.79%	16 Years

Latest UNM, CNO, PFG, and LNC Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
5/22/2025	LNC Lincoln National	quarterly	$0.45	5.51%	7/10/2025	7/10/2025	8/1/2025
4/23/2025	PFG Principal Financial Group	quarterly	$0.76	4.05%	6/2/2025	6/2/2025	6/27/2025
5/2/2025	CNO CNO Financial Group	quarterly	$0.17	1.78%	6/10/2025	6/10/2025	6/24/2025
4/10/2025	UNM Unum Group	quarterly	$0.42	2.29%	4/25/2025	4/25/2025	5/16/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CNO CNO Financial Group	1.59	0.18	0.18
LNC Lincoln National	0.81	0.25	0.25
PFG Principal Financial Group	0.36	0.29	0.30
UNM Unum Group	0.31	0.30	0.30

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CNO CNO Financial Group	95.43%
LNC Lincoln National	72.81%
PFG Principal Financial Group	75.08%
UNM Unum Group	86.57%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CNO CNO Financial Group	3.38%
LNC Lincoln National	0.54%
PFG Principal Financial Group	1.08%
UNM Unum Group	0.93%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CNO CNO Financial Group	3,500	99.14 million	95.79 million	Optionable
LNC Lincoln National	9,783	170.69 million	169.77 million	Optionable
PFG Principal Financial Group	19,300	224.19 million	226.30 million	Optionable
UNM Unum Group	11,063	174.36 million	172.74 million	Optionable

UNM, CNO, PFG, and LNC Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Zacks Research Brokers Cut Earnings Estimates for Unum Group

June 25 at 6:12 AM | marketbeat.com

Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) Receives Consensus Recommendation of "Moderate Buy" from Analysts

June 24 at 3:29 AM | marketbeat.com

Consolidated Planning Corp Makes New Investment in Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 23 at 6:51 AM | marketbeat.com

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC Purchases 5,455 Shares of Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 23 at 3:28 AM | marketbeat.com

Nilsine Partners LLC Purchases Shares of 15,396 Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 22 at 4:48 AM | marketbeat.com

Petra Financial Advisors Inc. Purchases New Holdings in Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 21, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Retirement Systems of Alabama Sells 14,290 Shares of Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 21, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Exchange Traded Concepts LLC Decreases Stock Holdings in Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 21, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) Shares Sold by Clarius Group LLC

June 20, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) Shares Purchased by QRG Capital Management Inc.

June 20, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Centennial Wealth Advisory LLC Invests $382,000 in Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 19, 2025 | marketbeat.com

LifeWealth Investments LLC Makes New $315,000 Investment in Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 19, 2025 | marketbeat.com

CWA Asset Management Group LLC Purchases 15,124 Shares of Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 18, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Ritholtz Wealth Management Has $3.44 Million Stock Holdings in Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 16, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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June 13, 2025 | zacks.com

UNM Stock Trading at a Discount to Industry at 1.23X: Time to Hold?

June 13, 2025 | zacks.com

apricus wealth LLC Decreases Position in Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 12, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) Stake Raised by Assenagon Asset Management S.A.

June 12, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Tounjian Advisory Partners LLC Acquires Shares of 11,018 Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 10, 2025 | marketbeat.com

International Private Wealth Advisors LLC Purchases Shares of 3,099 Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 9, 2025 | marketbeat.com

NewSquare Capital LLC Has $8.55 Million Stock Position in Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)

June 9, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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UNM, CNO, PFG, and LNC Company Descriptions

CNO Financial Group NYSE:CNO

$37.48 -0.19 (-0.50%)

As of 11:33 AM Eastern

CNO Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, markets, and administers health insurance, annuity, individual life insurance, insurance products, and financial services for senior and middle-income markets 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 individuals through phone, online, mail, and face-to-face. 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 and 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 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.

Lincoln National NYSE:LNC

$32.93 -0.22 (-0.66%)

As of 11:33 AM Eastern

Lincoln National Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates multiple insurance and retirement businesses in the United States. It operates in four segments: Life Insurance, Annuities, Group Protection, and Retirement Plan Services. The Life Insurance segment provides life insurance products, including term insurance, universal life insurance (UL), indexed universal life insurance, variable universal life insurance (VUL), linked-benefit UL and VUL products, and critical illness and long-term care riders. The Annuities segment offers variable, fixed, and registered index-linked annuities. The Group Protection segment offers group non-medical insurance products consisting of short and long-term disability and statutory disability; paid family medical leave administration and absence management services; term life; dental and vision; and accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity benefits and services to the employer marketplace through various forms of employee-paid and employer-paid plans. The Retirement Plan Services segment provides employers with retirement plan products and services primarily in the defined contribution retirement plan marketplace; individual and group variable annuities, group fixed annuities, and mutual fund-based programs; and various plan services, including plan recordkeeping, compliance testing, participant education, and trust and custodial services. The company distributes its products through consultants, brokers, planners, agents, financial advisors, third-party administrators, and other intermediaries. Lincoln National Corporation was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Principal Financial Group NYSE:PFG

$77.36 -0.57 (-0.73%)

As of 11:34 AM Eastern

Principal Financial Group, Inc. provides retirement, asset management, and insurance products and services to businesses, individuals, and institutional clients worldwide. The company operates through Retirement and Income Solutions, Principal Asset Management, and Benefits and Protection segments. The Retirement and Income Solutions segment provides retirement, and related financial products and services. It offers products and services for defined contribution plans, including 401(k) and 403(b) plans, defined benefit plans, nonqualified executive benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans, equity compensation, and pension risk transfer services; individual retirement accounts; investment only products; and mutual funds, individual variable annuities, registered index-linked annuities, and bank products, as well as trust and custody services. The Principal Asset Management segment provides equity, fixed income, real estate, and other alternative investments, as well as asset allocation, stable value management, and other structured investment strategies. It also offers pension accumulation products and services, mutual funds, asset management, income annuities, and life insurance accumulation products, as well as voluntary savings plans in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Asia, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Southeast Asia. The Benefits and Protection segment provides specialty benefits, such as group dental and vision insurance, group life insurance, and group and individual disability insurance, as well as administers group dental, disability, and vision benefits; and individual life insurance products comprising universal, variable universal, indexed universal, and term life insurance products. It also offers insurance solutions for small and medium-sized businesses and their owners, as well as employees. Principal Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 1879 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Unum Group NYSE:UNM

$78.53 -0.90 (-1.13%)

As of 11:34 AM Eastern

Unum Group, together with its subsidiaries, provides financial protection benefit solutions primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, and internationally. It operates through Unum US, Unum International, Colonial Life, and Closed Block segment. The company offers group long-term and short-term disability, group life, and accidental death and dismemberment products; supplemental and voluntary products, such as individual disability, voluntary benefits, and dental and vision products; and accident, sickness, disability, life, and cancer and critical illness products. It also provides group pension, individual life and corporate-owned life insurance, reinsurance pools and management operations, and other miscellaneous products. The company sells its products primarily to employers for the benefit of employees. It sells its products through field sales personnel, independent brokers, consultants, and independent contractor agent sales force and brokers. Unum Group was founded in 1848 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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