Brighthouse Financial (BHF) Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Brighthouse Financial in the last twelve months. There are currently 8 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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 twelve-month price objectives for Brighthouse Financial's stock. Their BHF share price forecasts range from $42.00 to $60.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $51.38 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 27.6% from the stock's current price.
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Brighthouse Financial's stock was trading at $51.27 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BHF shares have decreased by 21.5% and is now trading at $40.26.
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Brighthouse Financial saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,370,000 shares, an increase of 19.1% from the April 30th total of 1,150,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 589,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.3 days. Approximately 2.1% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 3rd 2023.
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Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:BHF) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 9th. The company reported $2.86 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $3.15 by $0.29. The business had revenue of $1.96 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.01 billion. Brighthouse Financial had a negative net margin of 16.16% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.25%. The firm's revenue was down 8.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $4.07 earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of Brighthouse Financial (NASDAQ:BHF) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Pure Value ETF (RFV), Invesco S&P MidCap Value with Momentum ETF (XMVM), SPDR S&P Insurance ETF (KIE), First Trust Financial AlphaDEX Fund (FXO), LeaderShares AlphaFactor US Core Equity ETF (LSAF), Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF (SQLV), First Trust Active Factor Mid Cap ETF (AFMC) and iShares U.S. Insurance ETF (IAK).

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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Dodge & Cox (13.36%), BlackRock Inc. (9.97%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (5.69%), Greenlight Capital Inc. (4.67%), State Street Corp (3.24%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.53%).
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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 $40.26.

Brighthouse Financial (NASDAQ:BHF) has a market capitalization of $2.69 billion and generates $8.47 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $5 million in net income (profit) each year or ($18.72) 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.