NASDAQ:BHFBrighthouse Financial Stock Price, Forecast & News

Brighthouse Financial's stock was trading at $24.03 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BHF stock has increased by 11.9% and is now trading at $26.88. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Brighthouse Financial in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings and 6 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Brighthouse Financial.

Brighthouse Financial is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, August 3rd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Brighthouse Financial.

Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ:BHF) announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May, 11th. The company reported $2.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.96 by $0.64. The business earned $2.10 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.01 billion. Brighthouse Financial had a net margin of 33.37% and a return on equity of 6.34%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $2.21 earnings per share. View Brighthouse Financial's earnings history.

8 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Brighthouse Financial's shares. Their forecasts range from $28.00 to $40.00. On average, they expect Brighthouse Financial's share price to reach $33.38 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Brighthouse Financial.

News headlines about BHF stock have trended somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Brighthouse Financial earned a news impact score of -1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news about Brighthouse Financial.

Brighthouse Financial saw a decline in short interest in June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,010,000 shares, a decline of 8.9% from the May 31st total of 5,500,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,600,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.1 days. Approximately 5.4% of the company's stock are sold short. View Brighthouse Financial's Current Options Chain.

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

Brighthouse Financial's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Whittier Trust Co. (0.00%). Company insiders that own Brighthouse Financial stock include C Edward Chaplin, Conor Murphy, Eric T Steigerwalt, John Rosenthal, Margaret M Mccarthy, Myles Lambert and William Francis Wallace. View institutional ownership trends for Brighthouse Financial.

BHF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Whittier Trust Co.. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $26.88.

Brighthouse Financial has a market capitalization of $2.65 billion and generates $6.55 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-740,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $9.58 on an earnings per share basis. Brighthouse Financial employs 1,330 workers across the globe.

The official website for Brighthouse Financial is 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]