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CNO CNO FINANCIAL GROUP INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 12621E103 · Sector: Financials

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
377
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+27
Last quarter 350 → now 377
How unusual is that
Top 20%
Stronger buying than 88% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

377 funds held CNO at the end of 2026Q2, up 27 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 87.9% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $4.6B(YoY +6.0%), the P/E is 18.7x, return on equity is 10.8%. CNO has had 12 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +9.5% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Financials sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=209 2013Q4: holders=210 2014Q1: holders=224 2014Q2: holders=208 2014Q3: holders=183 2014Q4: holders=196 2015Q1: holders=174 2015Q2: holders=200 2015Q3: holders=209 2015Q4: holders=208 2016Q1: holders=213 2016Q2: holders=227 2016Q3: holders=226 2016Q4: holders=242 2017Q1: holders=237 2017Q2: holders=237 2017Q3: holders=237 2017Q4: holders=263 2018Q1: holders=267 2018Q2: holders=251 2018Q3: holders=247 2018Q4: holders=254 2019Q1: holders=237 2019Q2: holders=234 2019Q3: holders=229 2019Q4: holders=235 2020Q1: holders=203 2020Q2: holders=213 2020Q3: holders=226 2020Q4: holders=240 2021Q1: holders=233 2021Q2: holders=233 2021Q3: holders=238 2021Q4: holders=263 2022Q1: holders=264 2022Q2: holders=251 2022Q3: holders=254 2022Q4: holders=249 2023Q1: holders=255 2023Q2: holders=243 2023Q3: holders=232 2023Q4: holders=262 2024Q1: holders=292 2024Q2: holders=293 2024Q3: holders=289 2024Q4: holders=319 2025Q1: holders=343 2025Q2: holders=330 2025Q3: holders=339 2025Q4: holders=365 2026Q1: holders=350 2026Q2: holders=377 -32 -16 +0 +16 +32 156276396 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 12 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 20%
2025Q1 Top 10% -1.8% +3.4%
2024Q4 Top 20% -6.3% -8.0%
2024Q1 Top 10% +15.5% +36.2%
2023Q4 Top 20% +7.7% +24.3%
2021Q4 Top 20% -19.5% -18.6%
2020Q3 Top 20% +16.3% +29.4%
2016Q2 Top 20% +11.2% +33.8%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
188
Change in large funds
+13
Total value they hold
$4.5B
Funds buying for the first time
70
Funds that sold out entirely
43
Price change that quarter
+14.4%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
1
Funds holding calls (bullish)
2

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
18.7
EPS (TTM)
$2.91
EPS YoY
-1.4%
Revenue (TTM)
$4.6B
Revenue YoY
+6.0%
Net margin
6.0%
ROE
10.8%
Debt ratio
93.5%
FCF (TTM)
Dividend (TTM)
No dividend
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2021-09-30: EPS 0.77 2021-12-31: EPS 0.93 2022-03-31: EPS 1.52 2022-06-30: EPS 1.99 2022-09-30: EPS 1.52 2022-12-31: EPS 0.33 2023-03-31: EPS -0.01 2023-06-30: EPS 0.64 2023-09-30: EPS 1.46 2023-12-31: EPS 0.32 2024-03-31: EPS 1.01 2024-06-30: EPS 1.06 2024-09-30: EPS 0.09 2024-12-31: EPS 1.74 2025-03-31: EPS 0.21 2025-06-30: EPS 0.91 2025-09-30: EPS 0.24 2025-12-31: EPS 0.95 2026-03-31: EPS 0.39 2026-06-30: EPS 1.33 0B 0.7B 1.5B $B -0.01 1.09 2.19 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025202606/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 10 3 12 20 20222023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

As of 2026-06-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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