HMN - Latest News
Horace Mann Educators Corporation (HMN), operates in Financial Services / Insurance - Property & Casualty, trades on NYSE.
Market capitalization stands near $1.78B. Trailing twelve-month P/E ratio is 11.00. Beta to the broader market is 0.13.
The article list below shows the most recent HMN headlines from major financial news vendors. For options traders, the most actionable items are earnings releases, analyst rating changes, M&A activity, and regulatory filings - each can drive a meaningful repricing of implied volatility and shift dealer hedging flow. Pair the news context with the implied-volatility skew and gamma exposure views to see whether the options market has already priced in the headline.
Recent HMN Headlines
Horace Mann Named 2025 Voluntary Sales Growth Leader by Eastbridge Consulting Group
businesswire.com - May 14, 2026
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Horace Mann Educators Corporation has been named the 2025 Voluntary Sales Growth Leader in the small carrier cate
Horace Mann Educators Q1 Earnings Call Highlights
marketbeat.com - May 10, 2026
Horace Mann Educators NYSE: HMN reported record first-quarter 2026 core earnings per share of $1. 28, up 20% from the prior-year quarter, as managemen
Horace Mann Educators Corporation (HMN) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
seekingalpha.com - May 7, 2026
Horace Mann Educators Corporation (HMN) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Horace Mann (HMN) Q1 Earnings Surpass Estimates
zacks.com - May 6, 2026
Horace Mann (HMN) came out with quarterly earnings of $1. 28 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.
Horace Mann reports first-quarter 2026 results
businesswire.com - May 6, 2026
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Horace Mann Educators Corporation (NYSE:HMN), the largest multiline financial services company focused on helping
How News Affects HMN Options Pricing
Headlines and scheduled events drive implied volatility in two distinct ways. Pre-event, IV typically inflates as uncertainty about the outcome rises; this is the implied-volatility expansion that creates the long-vol setup. Post-event, IV typically contracts sharply as uncertainty resolves; this is IV crush, which makes premium-selling structures profitable when they survive the underlying move. The size of the crush depends on how stretched pre-event IV is relative to the realized move. Track HMN's implied vs realized volatility over the news cycle to size pre-event vs post-event positioning. For ticker-level dealer positioning context, the gamma exposure view shows whether dealers are positioned to amplify or dampen post-news moves.
Frequently asked HMN news questions
- What is the latest HMN news headline?
- The most recent HMN headline (May 14, 2026) is "Horace Mann Named 2025 Voluntary Sales Growth Leader by Eastbridge Consulting Group". The five most recent stories with summaries and publication times are listed above, sourced from major financial news vendors.
- How fresh is the HMN news on this page?
- News rows refresh roughly every 30 minutes during the trading day. The five most recent headlines are listed in publication-time order. Press releases from the company itself typically appear within minutes of the wire release; third-party reporting may lag by 30-60 minutes depending on the source.
- What HMN news moves options pricing?
- Three categories move single-name IV most aggressively: scheduled earnings releases (priced into pre-event IV, crushed post-event), unscheduled M&A or strategic announcements (rapid IV expansion, slower decay), and regulatory or legal events (drug-trial readouts, antitrust filings, FDA approvals). Routine news flow (analyst commentary, sector rotation) typically does not move IV meaningfully unless it triggers a cluster of rating changes.
- How can I track unusual HMN options activity related to news?
- Unusual options activity often precedes news by hours to days; the canonical signals are volume substantially above the trailing average concentrated in a small number of strikes, atypical put/call skew, and aggressive execution (at-the-ask sweeps or block prints). Cross-reference the per-ticker gamma-exposure and volume-history pages with the news flow above to triangulate informed vs uninformed flow.