{"id":668651,"date":"2026-05-14T09:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:56:13","slug":"manulife-reports-1-1-billion-in-q1-earnings-up-from-485-million-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668651\/","title":{"rendered":"Manulife reports $1.1 billion in Q1 earnings, up from $485 million last year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">TORONTO \u2014 Manulife Financial Corp. reported $1.1 billion in net income attributable to shareholders during the first quarter, compared with $485 million during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">That amounted to earnings per share of 65 cents during the period, up from 25 cents during the prior-year quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The insurer says adjusted earnings, or what it calls core earnings, reached $1.8 billion during the first quarter, up year-over-year from $1.77 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Core earnings for Manulife&#8217;s Asia segment came in at US$598 million during the period, compared with US$492 million last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Meanwhile, core earnings for its Canada segment came in at $352 million, compared with $374 million during last year&#8217;s first quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Manulife CEO Phil Witherington says the company&#8217;s Asia segment achieved a strong quarter, with 22 per cent growth in core earnings and 15 per cent growth in new business value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Companies in this story: (TSX:MFC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Manulife Financial Corp. reported $1.1 billion in net income attributable to shareholders during the first quarter,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[246594,45,49,48,246592,40160,246593,944],"class_list":["post-668651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adjusted-earnings","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-core-earnings","tag-earnings-per-share","tag-manulife-financial-corp","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}