The Week That Was, The Week Ahead: Macro and Markets, Feb. 22
TipRanks (Sun, 22-Feb 4:38 AM ET)
Manulife Wins Approval for Share Buyback of Up to 42 Million Shares
TipRanks (Thu, 19-Feb 7:38 PM ET)
Manulife launches share buyback of up to 42 million shares
Seeking Alpha News (Thu, 19-Feb 4:48 PM ET)
John Hancock Unveils GenAI-Based Underwriting Support Tool: Quick Quote
PRNewswire (Thu, 29-Jan 8:00 AM ET)
AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Manulife Financial Corporation and Its Subsidiaries
Business Wire (Fri, 12-Dec 12:12 PM ET)
Manulife Financial Corporation Prices U.S. Public Offering of Senior Notes
PRNewswire (Tue, 2-Dec 5:52 PM ET)
Manulife Financial is one of the Big Three Canadian life insurers. The firm provides life insurance, annuities, asset management, and wealth management products to individuals and group customers in Canada, the United States, and Asia. The Canadian business segment contributes approximately 22% of adjusted earnings. The Asia segment operates across 12 countries and contributes around 36% of earnings, with a significant presence in Hong Kong and Singapore. The US business, which primarily operates under the John Hancock brand, contributes about 23% of earnings. Manulife's global asset and wealth management business contributes approximately 20% of its earnings and had around CAD 1.03 trillion in assets under management and administration as of the end of 2024.
Manulife Financial trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MFC.
As of February 24, 2026, MFC stock price declined to $35.79 with 1,254,232 million shares trading.
MFC has a beta of 0.82, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MFC has a correlation of 0.45 to the broad based SPY ETF.
MFC has a market cap of $60.03 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, MFC traded as high as $38.72 and as low as $17.07.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that MFC belongs to (by Net Assets): DFIV, FVD, DFAI, DFIC, DFAX.
MFC has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +22.1%, while the SPY ETF gained +15.8%. However, in the most recent history, MFC shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning +4.5% in the last 3 month period and -5.8% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +4.6% and -1.0%, respectively.
MFC support price is $35.43 and resistance is $36.41 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MFC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
