Conseco, Inc. (NYSE:CNO)

Conseco, Inc. (CNO) is a holding company for a group of insurance companies operating throughout the United States. The Company develops, markets and administers supplemental health insurance, annuity, individual life insurance and other insurance products.

I like CNO a lot.
Definitely, one of my top 3 picks.

CNO was featured in my Volume Story:
http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/the-volume-story/266251

And here is what I wrote about CNO in TheStreetOutside's post Your Favorite Stock For The Next Five Years (http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/your-favorite-stock-for-the/427623):

Have a few favs, but CNO is my pick for this post.

Love the way CNO's chart looks like. Huge, huge, HUUUUGE, volume increase when this stock started going up around March of 2009. CNO's price back than $.24, today $5.37.

Take a look at this chart. Does it look like this stock has corrected at all? Hardly. I don't think that can be said for many stocks right now.

Right now, CNO is 24% off its 52W high, which I think just shows strength, when you take into account that we had a very severe market correction for the past 2 months.

CNO is still 73% higher than its 52W low of $3.11 (where it was exactly a year ago), and 2,100% up from its 2009 low. Very, very strong.

One more sign of strength: There are no people/institutions anxious to sell this stock.

Ever since CNO started trading sideways (which I hope you agree is normal after a huge 2,000% run up), its average trading volume has been below 5 million shares. However, when CNO jumped 29% on 10/14/09, the volume was 40 million shares, with almost no sellers as CNO finished that day only 4 cents below the day's high.

Ever since that huge jump, CNO was never down more than 10% in a single day. Very unusual for a "cheap" stock that is, once again, 2,100% up from where it was just 16-17 moths ago. Very, very unusual.

Love CNO.

Here is what CNO does (borrowed from MSN):

CNO Financial Group, Inc., formerly Conseco, Inc., is the holding company for a group of insurance companies operating throughout the United States that develop, market and administer supplemental health insurance, annuity, individual life insurance and other insurance products. It focuses on serving the senior and middle-income markets. The Company sells its products through three distribution channels: career agents, professional independent producers (some of whom sell one or more of its product lines exclusively) and direct marketing. It operates in three segments: Bankers Life, Colonial Penn and Conseco Insurance Group.

(Don't forget to check out CNO's recent EPS growth and insiders' buying).