secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     AFLAC INC (AFL)
CIK:        0000004977
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-04-27T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000004977-23-000087
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Aflac Q1 net earnings $1.2B ($1.94 EPS) up 13.5% YoY; adjusted EPS $1.55; revenue $4.8B; Japan sales up 10.8%
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- Net earnings $1.2B ($1.94 diluted EPS) vs $1.0B ($1.60) a year ago; adjusted EPS $1.55, up 7.6%.
- Total revenues $4.8B, down 7.2% from $5.2B, impacted by yen weakness (avg rate 132.30 vs 116.18).
- Aflac Japan pretax adjusted earnings in yen up 3.2% to ¥104.3B; sales up 10.8% to ¥13.2B on new cancer product.
- Aflac US pretax adjusted earnings up 5.7% to $352M; sales up 5.3% to $315M.
- Board declared Q2 dividend $0.42/share; $700M share repurchases in Q1; remaining authorization 106.3M shares.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4977/000000497723000087/0000004977-23-000087-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4977/000000497723000087/afl-20230426.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000004977-23-000087

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