Growth Metrics

CNO Financial (CNO) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

CNO Financial (CNO) has disclosed Operating Margin for 17 consecutive years, with 11.45% as the latest value for Q3 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin fell 114.0% to 11.45% in Q3 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Sep 2025 was 48.58%, a 1915.0% increase, with the full-year FY2024 number at 39.3%, up 314.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin was 11.45% for Q3 2025 at CNO Financial, up from 3.28% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 149.36% in Q4 2024 to a low of 107.94% in Q4 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 21.65% and a median of 11.45% in 2025 define the central range for Operating Margin.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: tumbled -6118bps in 2021, then skyrocketed 25327bps in 2022.
  • CNO Financial's Operating Margin stood at 107.94% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 235bps to 145.34% in 2022, then crashed by -34bps to 95.31% in 2023, then soared by 57bps to 149.36% in 2024, then crashed by -92bps to 11.45% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CNO's Operating Margin are 11.45% (Q3 2025), 3.28% (Q2 2025), and 14.74% (Q1 2025).