Manulife Financial Corporation (NYSE: MFC) delivered second-quarter 2024 core earnings of 66 cents per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 3.1%. The bottom line improved 6.4% year over year. Manulife Financial Corp Price, Consensus and EPS Surprise Manulife Financial Corp price-consensus-eps-surprise-chart | Manulife Financial Corp Quote Core earnings of $1.3 billion (C$1.7 billion) increased 8.3% year over year. The improvement was driven by continued business growth momentum and updates to actuarial methods and assumptions in the second half of 2023, higher fee income from favo…