secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     AFLAC INC (AFL)
CIK:        0000004977
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-04-27T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000004977-22-000069
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Aflac Q1 net earnings fell to $1.0B ($1.58 EPS); revenue down 10%; Japan sales weak, US sales up 19%
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- Net earnings $1.0B ($1.58 diluted EPS) vs $1.3B ($1.87) YoY; adjusted EPS $1.42, down 7.2%.
- Total revenues $5.3B, down 10.2%; weaker yen (avg 116.18) hurt reported results.
- Japan new sales ¥11.9B, down 14.8% due to pandemic; pretax adjusted profit margin improved to 25.3%.
- US sales increased 19% to $299M; but pretax adjusted earnings fell 27% to $325M on higher claims.
- Quarterly dividend $0.40 (+21% YoY); $500M share repurchase in Q1; 47.8M shares left.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4977/000000497722000069/0000004977-22-000069-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4977/000000497722000069/afl-20220427.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000004977-22-000069

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