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CNO Financial Group (STU:COS) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 11.85% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is CNO Financial Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

CNO Financial Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was €5,799 Mil. CNO Financial Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was €693 Mil. CNO Financial Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 11.85%.

The historical rank and industry rank for CNO Financial Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

STU:COS' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3.85   Med: 6.63   Max: 20.17
Current: 11.85

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of CNO Financial Group was 20.17%. The lowest was -3.85%. And the median was 6.63%.

STU:COS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
65.6% of 500 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 6.505 vs STU:COS: 11.85

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. CNO Financial Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 36.89%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past seven years, and considers growth. The forward rate of return can be thought of as the return that investors buying the stock today can expect from it in the future.


CNO Financial Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for CNO Financial Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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CNO Financial Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

CNO Financial Group Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.67 6.58 12.24 14.84 8.40

CNO Financial Group Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 12.05 9.16 9.17 8.40 11.85

Competitive Comparison of CNO Financial Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Insurance - Life subindustry, CNO Financial Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %, along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


CNO Financial Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, CNO Financial Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where CNO Financial Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



CNO Financial Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Calculation

In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.

CNO Financial Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=545.982/6478.7972
=8.43 %

CNO Financial Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €693 Mil.



CNO Financial Group  (STU:COS) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Explanation

Joel Greenblatt defines the earnings yield using the above equation because it more accurately reflects the company's profitability relative to its stock price. Items like interest payment and tax etc. are not directly related to the company's operational profitability.

Enterprise Value instead of market cap (share price) is used in the calculation because it is the real price stock and bond investors together pay for the company.


Be Aware

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % based on Don Yacktman's definition is a better measure of the expected rate of return for a stock.


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CNO Financial Group (STU:COS) Business Description

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Address
11825 N. Pennsylvania Street, Carmel, IN, USA, 46032
CNO Financial Group Inc is a holding company for a group of insurance companies that offers middle-income American consumers insurance and securities products through exclusive agents, independent producers, and direct marketing. Consumers are served through the phone, online, mail, face-to-face with agents, or sales channels. The company's operating segments include annuity, health, and life insurance product lines as well as the investment and fee revenue segments. Maximum revenue is generated from the health product line segment. Annuity premiums account for the majority of the total premiums collected. Annuity products include fixed index annuities, traditional fixed-rate annuities, and single-premium immediate annuity products.

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