NYSE:CNO - CNO Financial Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

CNO Financial Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CNO."

CNO Financial Group declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 14th. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.11 per share on Tuesday, December 24th. This represents a $0.44 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.41%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 9th. View CNO Financial Group's Dividend History.

CNO Financial Group Inc (NYSE:CNO) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 5th. The financial services provider reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.47 by $0.02. The financial services provider earned $944 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $953.60 million. CNO Financial Group had a net margin of 4.29% and a return on equity of 6.77%. CNO Financial Group's quarterly revenue was down 36.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.53 earnings per share. View CNO Financial Group's Earnings History.

CNO Financial Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 11th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for CNO Financial Group.

3 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for CNO Financial Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $17.00 to $29.00. On average, they anticipate CNO Financial Group's stock price to reach $22.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 22.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for CNO Financial Group.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for CNO Financial Group in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for CNO Financial Group.

Media coverage about CNO stock has been trending somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. CNO Financial Group earned a media sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for CNO Financial Group.

CNO Financial Group saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,420,000 shares, an increase of 9.3% from the December 15th total of 4,960,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,160,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.7 days. Currently, 3.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View CNO Financial Group's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to CNO Financial Group include Metlife (MET), AFLAC (AFL), Prudential Financial (PRU), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Lincoln National (LNC), Unum Group (UNM), Primerica (PRI), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), FBL Financial Group (FFG), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Independence (IHC), Citizens (CIA), Kansas City Life Insurance (KCLI) and Health Insurance Innovations (HIIQ).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other CNO Financial Group investors own include Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO), Intrexon (XON), CSX (CSX), Cohu (COHU), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), General Electric (GE), Corning (GLW), Invesco (IVZ), MGIC Investment (MTG) and Weyerhaeuser (WY).

CNO Financial Group's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Scout Investments Inc. (0.17%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.02%), Sciencast Management LP (0.02%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%). Company insiders that own CNO Financial Group stock include Bruce K Baude, Charles J Jacklin, Erik M Helding, Frederick James Sievert, Gerardo Monroy, Joel H Schwartz, Matthew J Zimpfer and Stephen N David. View Institutional Ownership Trends for CNO Financial Group.

CNO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Scout Investments Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold CNO Financial Group company stock in the last year include Erik M Helding, Frederick James Sievert, Gerardo Monroy, Joel H Schwartz and Matthew J Zimpfer. View Insider Buying and Selling for CNO Financial Group.

CNO stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sciencast Management LP and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have bought CNO Financial Group stock in the last two years include Charles J Jacklin and Stephen N David. View Insider Buying and Selling for CNO Financial Group.

Shares of CNO can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CNO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $18.27.

CNO Financial Group has a market capitalization of $2.76 billion and generates $4.31 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $-315,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $1.83 on an earnings per share basis. CNO Financial Group employs 3,300 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About CNO Financial Group.

The official website for CNO Financial Group is http://www.cnoinc.com/.

CNO Financial Group's mailing address is 11825 NORTH PENNSYLVANIA STREET, CARMEL IN, 46032. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 317-817-6100 or via email at [email protected]