---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001224608-25-000067"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNO"
cik: "0001224608"
company_name: "CNO Financial Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:50:22.062022+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CNO Financial Q3 operating EPS $1.29, up 16%; sales up 26%; boosts ROE target

## Summary
- Net operating income $127.2M ($1.29/sh) vs $119.2M ($1.11) in 3Q24, up 7% and 16%.
- Total new annualized premiums up 26% YoY; Life NAP +32%, Health NAP +20%.
- Increasing run-rate operating ROE target by 50 bps, cumulative 200 bps improvement through 2027.
- Exiting Worksite fee services business; expects to reduce fee revenue ~$30M and increase pre-tax income ~$20M.
- Second Bermuda reinsurance transaction cedes $1.8B supplemental health reserves; 50% of new business ceded.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001224608-25-000067
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNO
- cik: 0001224608
- company_name: CNO Financial Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1224608/000122460825000067/0001224608-25-000067-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1224608/000122460825000067/cno-20251103.htm

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