Brighthouse Financial - BHF Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Brighthouse Financial in the last twelve months. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" BHF shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BHF, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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8 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Brighthouse Financial's stock. Their BHF share price forecasts range from $43.00 to $79.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $55.22 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.2% from the stock's current price.
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Brighthouse Financial's stock was trading at $51.80 at the start of the year. Since then, BHF shares have increased by 2.3% and is now trading at $52.98.
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Brighthouse Financial saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,970,000 shares, an increase of 32.6% from the October 31st total of 2,240,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 552,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.4 days. Approximately 4.3% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 9th 2023.
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Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:BHF) announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November, 7th. The company reported ($0.04) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.78 by $0.82. The business earned $1.91 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.97 billion. Brighthouse Financial had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.50% and a net margin of 10.06%.

86 employees have rated Brighthouse Financial Chief Executive Officer Eric Steigerwalt on Glassdoor.com. Eric Steigerwalt has an approval rating of 90% among the company's employees. 94.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Brighthouse Financial to a friend.

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

Brighthouse Financial's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.40%), BlackRock Inc. (10.06%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (4.84%), State Street Corp (3.18%), Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. (1.44%) and Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. (1.23%).
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Shares of BHF stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of BHF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $52.98.

Brighthouse Financial (NASDAQ:BHF) has a market capitalization of $3.66 billion and generates $7.14 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-108,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $11.43 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 1,500 workers across the globe.

Brighthouse Financial's mailing address is 11225 N COMMUNITY HOUSE ROAD, CHARLOTTE NC, 28277. The official website for the company is www.brighthousefinancial.com. The company can be reached via phone at (980) 365-7100 or via email at investor.relations@brighthousefinancial.com.