Brighthouse Financial Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NASDAQ:BHF)

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

Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ:BHF) announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November, 4th. The company reported $2.33 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.22 by $0.11. The business had revenue of $3.19 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.04 billion. Brighthouse Financial had a return on equity of 6.21% and a net margin of 17.25%. During the same quarter in the prior 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 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices 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 year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.7%. 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.

Press coverage about BHF stock has been trending very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Brighthouse Financial earned a news sentiment score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Brighthouse Financial.

Brighthouse Financial saw a increase in short interest during the month of October. As of October 15th, there was short interest totalling 6,100,000 shares, an increase of 6.6% from the September 15th total of 5,720,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,030,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.9 days. Approximately 5.5% 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 Legal & General Group (LGEN), AEGON (AEG), Lincoln National (LNC), Globe Life (GL), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), SONY FINL HOLDI/ADR (SNYFY), Athene (ATH), Voya Financial (VOYA), Scor (SCRYY), AMP (AMP), Primerica (PRI), American National Insurance (ANAT), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), FGL (FG) and Genworth Financial (GNW).

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

Brighthouse Financial's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. (0.98%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.65%), Mackay Shields LLC (0.47%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.38%), Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL (0.37%) and Rhumbline Advisers (0.24%). 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, 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, Pacer Advisors Inc. and Rhumbline Advisers. 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, Retirement Systems of Alabama, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Vanguard Capital Wealth Advisors, Alps Advisors Inc. and Meeder Asset Management Inc.. 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 $40.02.

Brighthouse Financial has a market capitalization of $4.32 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]