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

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

Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ:BHF) released its earnings results on Monday, November, 4th. The company reported $2.33 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.22 by $0.11. The business earned $3.19 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.04 billion. Brighthouse Financial had a return on equity of 6.21% and a net margin of 17.25%. During the same period last year, the business posted $2.23 earnings per share. 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.

Brighthouse Financial will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, February 10th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

9 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Brighthouse Financial's stock. Their forecasts range from $33.00 to $42.00. On average, they expect 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 headlines about BHF stock have trended extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Brighthouse Financial earned a daily sentiment score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Brighthouse Financial.

Brighthouse Financial saw a drop in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,960,000 shares, a drop of 6.6% from the December 15th total of 4,240,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,260,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.1 days. Currently, 3.7% 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 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), Genworth Financial (GNW), FGL (FG) and FBL Financial Group (FFG).

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Brighthouse Financial's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.27%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.17%), Polianta Ltd (0.03%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.02%), Virginia National Bank (0.02%) and Diligent Investors LLC (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 , Virginia National Bank, 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, New York State Teachers Retirement System, Strs Ohio, Sciencast Management LP, Alpine Global Management LLC, Balasa Dinverno & Foltz 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]