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 earnings results on Monday, November, 4th. The company reported $2.33 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.22 by $0.11. The company earned $3.19 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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 in the prior year, the firm 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 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Brighthouse Financial's shares. Their forecasts range from $33.00 to $42.00. On average, they anticipate Brighthouse Financial's stock price to reach $38.63 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.2%. 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 2 sell ratings and 7 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Brighthouse Financial.

Media coverage about BHF stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Brighthouse Financial earned a daily sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Brighthouse Financial.

Brighthouse Financial saw a decline in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,960,000 shares, a decline of 6.6% from the December 15th total of 4,240,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,260,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.1 days. Currently, 3.7% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Brighthouse Financial's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Brighthouse Financial include Lincoln National (LNC), AEGON (AEG), Globe Life (GL), SONY FINL HOLDI/ADR (SNYFY), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Athene (ATH), Voya Financial (VOYA), Scor (SCRYY), AMP (AMP), Primerica (PRI), American National Insurance (ANAT), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), FGL (FG), Genworth Financial (GNW) 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), AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Micron Technology (MU), NVIDIA (NVDA), Edwards Lifesciences (EW), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Alibaba Group (BABA) and AbbVie (ABBV).

Brighthouse Financial's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.27%), Polianta Ltd (0.03%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.02%), Diligent Investors LLC (0.02%), Fruth Investment Management (0.02%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%). 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 Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Diligent Investors LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Fruth Investment Management, Brave Asset Management Inc. and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling for Brighthouse Financial.

BHF stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hennessy Advisors Inc., Polianta Ltd, Sciencast Management LP, Alpine Global Management LLC and Nisa Investment Advisors 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 $40.75.

Brighthouse Financial has a market capitalization of $4.40 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]