Skip to content
Markets
SPY759.63▼ -1.27%QQQ696.59▼ -2.62%DIA519.91▼ -0.54%GLD358.07▼ -2.85%TLT81.64▲ +0.19%BABA98.37▼ -1.18%NIO3.23▼ -2.56%PDD79.70▲ +0.53%Realtime derived data
Octans ResearchOCTANS RESEARCHWaitlist
The Art Deco lobby of the Chicago Board of Trade Building, with black marble piers and a tall lit atrium, July 2025.
Source: Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CNO Financial quarterly revenue falls 8.6% to $1.09 billion

CNO Financial has slipped into decline. Results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from the earnings release filed with the SEC on Oct 29, 2026.

Octans ResearchPublished

Snapshot

CNO Financial has slipped into decline: revenue fell 8.6% to $1.09 billion in the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from $1.19 billion a year earlier, after 11.6% year over year growth the quarter before.

Coverage
Independent Research
Prepared by
Octans Research
Tickers
CNO
As of

Market Data

Latest prices for the companies covered in this article
Company1D %Price
($CNO)▲ +2.52%56.56

as of 10:07 ET · Realtime derived data

What We Know

Revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 was $1.09 billion, versus $1.19 billion in the same quarter a year earlier, down 8.6%.

Bar chart: CNO Financial: revenue, last eight quarters. US$ billions by fiscal quarter end, as of Oct 29, 2026. Dec 2024 1.1; Mar 2025 1.0; Jun 2025 1.15; Sep 2025 1.19; Dec 2025 1.14; Mar 2026 1.03; Jun 2026 1.29; Sep 2026 1.09. Latest quarter $1.09B, Down 8.6% vs a year earlier.
Source: SEC EDGAR (earnings release and XBRL financial data)

Quarterly revenue by fiscal quarter end, oldest first: Dec 2024: $1.10 billion; Mar 2025: $1.00 billion; Jun 2025: $1.15 billion; Sep 2025: $1.19 billion; Dec 2025: $1.14 billion; Mar 2026: $1.03 billion; Jun 2026: $1.29 billion; Sep 2026: $1.09 billion.

Octans View

Year over year revenue change by quarter, computed from the filed figures: Dec 2025 up 4.2%; Mar 2026 up 2.5%; Jun 2026 up 11.6%; Sep 2026 down 8.6%. On those figures, CNO Financial has slipped into decline. That read compares the latest two year over year growth rates and nothing else.

Bear Case · Room for Disagreement

This brief covers reported revenue and diluted earnings per share only. It does not cover guidance, margins, segment results, cash flow or the earnings call, and it makes no forecast. Revenue is the total on the release line we matched; a company's own adjusted measures can differ.

Method and source. Octans Research matched the revenue line in the earnings release (Exhibit 99.1) to the year ago quarter the company reported in its own XBRL financial data; the two must agree before anything is published. The quarterly history comes from the same XBRL data. The text is generated from those verified figures by a fixed template; no model wrote it.

Chart

$CNO adjusted close, last 6 months $CNO adjusted close, last 6 months: series rising from 45.3 to 55.2 (+21.7%) from 2026-05-04 to 2026-10-29. Scale 45 to 60. 45505560 2026-05-042026-10-29 $CNO ADJUSTED CLOSE, LAST 6 MONTHS +21.7% 55.17
Source: Tiingo · As of 2026-10-29Indicative, not investment advice.

Sources

  1. [1]SEC EDGAR — CNO Financial earnings release for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 (Exhibit 99.1), filed Oct 29, 2026
  2. [2]SEC EDGAR — CNO Financial XBRL financial data (company facts)

These are the sources this piece was drafted from. How we verify. Found an error? Tell us and we correct it in public.

$1.09B

Revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 was $1.09 billion, versus $1.19 billion in the… · What we know

Related coverage

More on $CNO

4 reports