Q1 Life, Health and Annuity Earnings Calendar

UnitedHealth got the latest round of earnings off to a brisk start.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. kicked off the earnings release season for the first quarter by announcing growth in earnings and revenue, in spite of a COVID-19 wave that killed 200,000 people in the United States in Q1 2021.

The Minnetonka, Minnesota-based health insurer reported $5 billion in net income for the  quarter on $70 billion in revenue, up from $3.5 billion in net income on $64 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2020.

Operating earnings at the UnitedHealthcare health insurance unit increased to $4.1 billion, from $2.9 billion.

The company ended the quarter providing or administering health coverage for 49 million people, up from 48 million people a year earlier.

Other life, health and annuity issuers will be releasing their earnings starting next week.

Ryan Krueger, an analyst at KBW, a Stifel Company, wrote in a commentary that he’s seeing strong increases in stock prices for the life and annuity issuers he rates; interest rates that are slightly higher, but not high enough to boost earnings; and questions about the effects of COVID-19 on life insurance claims.

Earnings Release Dates

Here’s a list that gives each insurer’s anticipated earnings release date, along with the stock symbol the company uses to identify itself to investors. (This list will be updated over the next few days, as more earnings release dates come in.)

Click on the stock symbol to see the company’s SEC filing page.

April 15

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