MFC·Manulife Financial Corporation
MFC|Analyst Targets
MFC|Earnings Snapshot
EPS
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3'26 | $1.19 | - | - |
| Q3'25 | $1.04 | $1.16 | +11.8% |
Revenue
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3'26 | - | - | - |
| Q3'25 | - | $17.3B | - |
MFC|Monthly Returns
Market Data
MFC Stock Snapshot
- Market cap
- 101.70B
- P/E ratio
- 15.1
- Day range
- $41.61 – $42.55
- News sentiment
- 58/100 · Neutral
- Analyst target
- $34.20 (-17.9%)
- Consensus
- Buy · 20 analysts
Momentum has rolled over on Manulife Financial Corporation, which is what drives the bearish read. The stock is liquid enough that positioning changes get absorbed without distorting the trend.
Behaviour On Record
What MFC's own history says about today's numbers
- Realized volatility (21d)
- 16.6% 20th pct
- Below its peak
- -4.9%
- vs 200-day average
- +9.4%
- Up days (1y)
- 57%
Manulife Financial Corporation is currently running 16.6% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against MFC's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 20th percentile — unusually subdued by its own history, against a typical reading of 22.7%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.
MFC is trading -4.9% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -18.0%, and the deepest was -56.7% in 2020. The current pullback is therefore shallower than what this stock gives back in a typical year, which is context worth having before treating it as a dislocation.
Price sits +9.4% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 72nd percentile — a somewhat wider gap than its own norm. Over the past year MFC closed higher on 57% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a rising streak.
On October specifically: over 13 years of records, MFC finished the month higher 7 of 13 times, with a median return of +0.5% and an average of +0.5%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +7.6% on average, its weakest March at -1.3%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.
Overnight risk is measurable too: MFC has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 176 of 3,267 sessions (5.4% of the time), with the largest gaps running +10.2% and -10.5%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.
All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-10-07 and 2026-10-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against MFC's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.
Sector Rotation
Is money rotating into or out of MFC's sector?
Manulife Financial Corporation sits in the Financials sector, currently ranked 11th of 12 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (improving). Within its narrower Insurance industry group, MFC ranks 6th of 15 tracked industries, improving.
- Sector rank
- #11 of 12
- Sector state
- Improving
- Sector rotation score
- 27
- Industry rank
- #6 of 15
Analyst Rating Changes
Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on MFC?
RBC Capital most recently reiterated its rating on Manulife Financial Corporation to Outperform on Aug 7, 2026 with a price target of $67 (from $55). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 0 downgrades, a net mixed lean.
- Latest action
- RBC Capital — Outperform
- 90-day upgrades
- 0
- 90-day downgrades
- 0
- Net rating momentum
- 0
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