secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     CNO Financial Group, Inc. (CNO)
CIK:        0001224608
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-10-31T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001224608-24-000055
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

CNO Financial Q3 net operating income $1.11 EPS, up 26% YoY; raises full-year guidance
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- Net operating income of $1.11/dil share vs $0.88 YoY; GAAP net income $0.09 due to non-economic accounting impacts (market volatility, FIA embedded derivative changes).
- Record annuity collected premiums up 25%; Medicare Supplement NAP up 15%, Medicare Advantage sales up 26%.
- Repurchased $90M of stock (2.8M shares at $32.03); returned $106.8M total to shareholders in Q3.
- Raising full-year guidance for earnings and cash flow; producing agent counts up 5%-17% across divisions.
- Book value per diluted share ex AOCI $35.84; statutory RBC ratio estimated at 388%.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1224608/000122460824000055/0001224608-24-000055-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1224608/000122460824000055/cno-20241031.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001224608-24-000055

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