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

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 previous year, the firm earned $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 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Brighthouse Financial's shares. Their forecasts range from $22.00 to $42.00. On average, they expect Brighthouse Financial's stock price to reach $36.13 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.2%. 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 headlines about BHF stock have trended extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing 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 closest to five being the most favorable. Brighthouse Financial earned a coverage optimism score of -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the company a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Brighthouse Financial.

Brighthouse Financial saw a decrease in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 5,590,000 shares, a decrease of 8.4% from the October 31st total of 6,100,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,090,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.1 days. Approximately 5.1% of the company's shares 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), 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) and FGL (FG).

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 a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 $39.37.

Brighthouse Financial has a market capitalization of $4.25 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]