Educator-focused insurance company Horace Mann Educators (NYSE:HMN) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after market close. Here’s what to expect.
Horace Mann Educators missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.9% last quarter, reporting revenues of $416.4 million, up 7.9% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ book value per share estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Horace Mann Educators’s revenue to grow 10% year on year to $426.7 million, improving from the 8.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.60 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Horace Mann Educators has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.
Looking at Horace Mann Educators’s peers in the life insurance segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Corebridge Financial delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 7.3%, and Lincoln Financial Group reported revenues up 4.4%, topping estimates by 1.1%. Lincoln Financial Group traded up 7.8% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Corebridge Financial’s results here and Lincoln Financial Group’s results here.
The outlook for 2025 remains clouded by potential trade policy changes and corporate tax discussions, which could impact business confidence and growth. While some of the life insurance stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.9% on average over the last month. Horace Mann Educators’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $47.33 (compared to the current share price of $41.90).
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