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CNO Financial Group, Inc.

5/25/2013, 9:56 PM ET

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Thursday, May 9, 6:56 AM CNO Financial Group (CNO) declares $0.03/share quarterly dividend, 50% increase from prior dividend of $0.02. Forward yield 1.00%. For shareholders of record June 10. Payable June24. Ex-div date May 06. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Wednesday, April 24, 6:55 PM CNO Financial (CNO): Q1 EPS of $0.21 misses by $0.01. Revenue of $1.14B beats by $0.08B. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Financials]
Thursday, February 28, 7:11 PM CNO Financial Group (CNO) declares $0.02/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 0.73%. For shareholders of record Mar. 11. Payable Mar. 25. Ex-div date Mar. 07. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Monday, February 11, 5:05 PM CNO Financial (CNO): Q4 EPS of $0.25 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $1.06B (+1% Y/Y) in-line. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Financials]
Thursday, December 13, 2012, 11:18 AM CNO Financial (CNO +3%) gains in the wake of announcing a $300M addition to its stock repurchase program, bringing the total remaining to about $360M. For 2013, the company expects buybacks of $250M-$300MM and dividends paid to the holding company of $250M-$300M. The company has a market cap of about $2.2B. (PR) Comment! [Financials, On the Move]
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 5:51 PM CNO Financial Group, Inc. (CNO) declares $0.02/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 0.95%. For shareholders of record Dec. 10. Payable Dec. 24. Ex-div Dec. 6. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Monday, October 29, 2012, 4:30 PM CNO Financial (CNO): Q3 EPS of -$0.02 misses by $0.21. Revenue of $1.09B (+10% Y/Y) beats by $50M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Financials]
Friday, December 30, 2011, 4:27 PM CNO Financial (CNO) issues an update on its $100M stock buyback, saying it purchased 2.34M shares during Q4, at a cost of about $14.1M. Average cost per share was $6.02. Total shares repurchased under the program to date total 11,119,904 shares for an aggregate purchase price of $69.8M, at an average cost of $6.28 per share. The company has about 240.8M shares outstanding. Comment! [Financials]
Saturday, October 8, 2011, 8:44 PM Markets sniff out weakness, and the relentless selling in financials may be no more than frontrunning John Paulson, whose Advantage Plus fund is reportedly off 47% through September's end. Redemptions - perhaps massive ones - are a possibility, meaning Paulson will have to unload financial shares, and others, he has been so fond of. One could do worse than picking a bottom in the XLF on the day he is forced to give up on the sector. 12 Comments [Financials, Quick Ideas]
Friday, August 19, 2011, 11:07 AM Moody's does a stress test on life insurers, concluding a long period of low interest rates "would subject (them) to substantial losses and could result in rating downgrades." Portfolios currently yielding an adequate 5-6% could drop below that figure, threatening policy benefits and profit margins. 4 Comments [Financials]
Thursday, August 19, 2010, 1:53 PM New York AG Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed AIG, Lincoln National (LNC), Aetna (AET), CNO Financial (CNO) and Principal (PFG) as part of a fraud investigation focusing on life insurers’ retention of death benefits, sources say. Cuomo is widening a probe after earlier issuing subpoenaes for MetLife (MET) and Prudential (PRU). 6 Comments
Thursday, December 17, 2009, 9:00 AM Premarket gainers: FUN +24%. APWR +7%. DPTR +5%. PIR +4%.
Losers; YONG -10%. C -9%. HOV -8%. SQNM -7%. LYG -7%. BQI -6%. EZCH -6%. FRE -6%. PCS -5%. AIB -5%. BCS -5%. FNM -5%. HOG -5%. LDK -4%. AEM -4%. CNO -4%. AU -4%. FDX -4%. DB -4%. Comment!
Friday, November 6, 2009, 9:00 AM Premarket gainers: GSI +10%. KFN +8%. FAZ +5%. RBS +5%. NVDA +4%. SWKS +4%.
Losers: CVI -13%. FRE -12%. FNM -12%. AIG -11%. CROX -10%. IRE -7%. FIG -6%. SD -6%. ABK -4%. CRH -4%. BCRX -4%. CNO -4%. CTIC -4%. CBS -4%. ING -4%. RCL -4%. MT -4%. Comment!
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 9:00 AM Premarket gainers: LAMR +16%. R +16%. ONNN +8%. DYN +7%. DIRI +7%. IRE +5%. BCRX +5%. NVAX +5%. MGM +5%. PCS +5%. CTIC +4%. CVM +4%. ING +4%. TRA +4%. QCOM +4%. AIB +4%. FNM +4%. CSCO +4%. CNO +4%. AMMD +4%.
Losers: CVS -10%. AEO -10%. ARO -10%. WFMI -10%. DPTR -9%. BEE -8%. CF -7%. ATPG -7%. ABK -6%. Comment!
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 9:00 AM Premarket gainers: AMSC +15%. AIXG +12%. RBS +12%. PQ +11%. LYG +10%. AKAM +10%. MITI +10%. ING +9%. FNM +8%. ABK +8%. CTIC +8%. DB +8%. FITB +7%. FRE +7%. SWSI +7%. BCS +6%. MOT +6%. IRE +6%. ALU +6%. TCK +5%. RCL +5%. RTP +5%. CS +5%. HL +5%. ACGY +5%. MT +5%. GNW +5%. HGSI +5%. FAS +5%. GOLD +5%. LVS +5%. HIG +5%. MGM +4%. CNO +4%. ASML +4%. NCS +4%. LCC +4%. VALE +4%. PG +4%.
Losers: FSLR -15%. BCRX +4%. FLS -4%. Comment!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 11:12 AM S&P upgrades Conseco (CNO) to stable from negative after hedge fund manager John Paulson says he intends to increase his stake to 9.9% and buy up to $200M of the $293M in convertible notes the insurer is selling; shares now up 25.1%. 2 Comments