Company Analysis

Horace Mann Educators Corporation (HMN)

NYSE: HMN · Fire, Marine & Casualty Insurance · Springfield, IL · filing with the SEC since 1996
Grade5.2
◀ Past 6.0● Present 3.8▶ Future 5.7

The grade of Horace Mann Educators Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.2/10
◀ Past6.040% of the headline
● Present3.835% of the headline
▶ Future5.725% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.0/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 60 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Horace Mann Educators Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+4.7% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 59th percentile among 56 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Horace Mann Educators Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.1 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.7 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.7% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 8% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span4.7%bottom 35% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 33% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 17% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak8.4%top 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.2% a year. 13% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 27 sales, 2 purchases.

weight 45% of this tense · 50th percentile among 49 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Horace Mann Educators Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 13% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 27 sales (20 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10, buying about $157 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 38% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

3.8/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
2.7/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 11%: 11¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 90%: owes 90¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 27th percentile among 60 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Horace Mann Educators Corporation earned about 11 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 90 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 9% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 33% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 38% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 40% of 60 in its family; net margin 9.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 40th percentile among 60 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Horace Mann Educators Corporation's standing among 60 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 47% by size; a net margin of 9.5% ranks in the bottom 38%; revenue growth of 7.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 31% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.70Btop 47% of its family
  • net margin9.5%bottom 38% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth7.2%bottom 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
5.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 42% of 47 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2014.

weight 22% of this tense · 58th percentile among 47 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Horace Mann Educators Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Zuraitis, Marita (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2014-03-07, 12.7 years (top 12% of its family); the 19 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.6 years (bottom 28%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 19 people in charge now (top 41%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge6 in three years among 19 peopletop 41% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.6 yearsbottom 28% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record12.7 yearstop 12% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.7/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 47% of 60 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 60 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Horace Mann Educators Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $28 million against debt of $593 million leaves -3.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 23% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 32.5% of revenue (top 16%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-3.7%bottom 23% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue32.5%top 16% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 49% of 56 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 49th percentile among 56 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Horace Mann Educators Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.2% a year over the last three filed years against 4.7% over all 10, speeding up (bottom 46% of its family); the newest year grew 6.7% (top 47%) (its annual reports). Horace Mann Educators Corporation tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+2.5 points a yearbottom 46% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth6.7%top 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
7.0/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 30% of 56 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 70th percentile among 56 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Horace Mann Educators Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.7% below the $1.7 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 24% of its family); net income of $162 million against a prior three-year average of $56 million (top 26%); a net margin of 9.5% against 3.6% before (top 40%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-0.7%top 24% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+190%top 26% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+5.9 pointstop 40% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton HMN · research, not advice