NASDAQ:BHF - Brighthouse Financial Stock Price, Forecast & News

Brighthouse Financial trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "BHF."

Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ:BHF) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November, 4th. The company reported $2.33 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.22 by $0.11. The business had revenue of $3.19 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.04 billion. Brighthouse Financial had a net margin of 17.25% and a return on equity of 6.21%. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $2.23 EPS. View Brighthouse Financial's Earnings History.

Brighthouse Financial is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 10th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Brighthouse Financial.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Brighthouse Financial's stock. Their forecasts range from $22.00 to $42.00. On average, they anticipate Brighthouse Financial's stock price to reach $36.13 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 13.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Brighthouse Financial.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Brighthouse Financial in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings and 6 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Brighthouse Financial.

News stories about BHF stock have been trending somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Brighthouse Financial earned a daily sentiment score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Brighthouse Financial.

Brighthouse Financial saw a drop in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 5,590,000 shares, a drop of 8.4% from the October 31st total of 6,100,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,090,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.1 days. Currently, 5.1% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Brighthouse Financial's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Brighthouse Financial include AEGON (AEG), Lincoln National (LNC), Globe Life (GL), SONY FINL HOLDI/ADR (SNYFY), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Athene (ATH), Voya Financial (VOYA), Scor (SCRYY), Primerica (PRI), AMP (AMP), American National Insurance (ANAT), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), Genworth Financial (GNW), FGL (FG) and FBL Financial Group (FFG).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Brighthouse Financial investors own include Metlife (MET), IBM (IBM), Micron Technology (MU), NVIDIA (NVDA), Edwards Lifesciences (EW), Intel (INTC), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Alibaba Group (BABA), AT&T (T) and Applied Materials (AMAT).

Brighthouse Financial's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (4.30%), Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. (0.98%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.65%), Mackay Shields LLC (0.47%), Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (0.44%) and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.38%). Company insiders that own Brighthouse Financial stock include C Edward Chaplin, Conor Murphy, Eric T Steigerwalt, John Rosenthal, Margaret M Mccarthy, Metlife Inc and Myles Lambert. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Brighthouse Financial.

BHF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, State Street Corp, Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Northpointe Capital LLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund and Pacer Advisors Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Brighthouse Financial.

BHF stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Mackay Shields LLC, HGK Asset Management Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System, Psagot Investment House Ltd., Squarepoint Ops LLC, Retirement Systems of Alabama, Barclays PLC and Voloridge Investment Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Brighthouse Financial stock in the last two years include C Edward Chaplin, Conor Murphy, Eric T Steigerwalt, John Rosenthal, Margaret M Mccarthy and Myles Lambert. View Insider Buying and Selling for Brighthouse Financial.

Shares of BHF can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BHF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $41.67.

Brighthouse Financial has a market capitalization of $4.50 billion and generates $8.97 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $865 million in net income (profit) each year or $7.44 on an earnings per share basis. Brighthouse Financial employs 1,260 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Brighthouse Financial.

The official website for Brighthouse Financial is http://www.brighthousefinancial.com/.

Brighthouse Financial's mailing address is 11225 N COMMUNITY HOUSE ROAD, CHARLOTTE NC, 28277. The company can be reached via phone at 980-365-7100 or via email at [email protected]