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

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

Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ:BHF) announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, November, 4th. The company reported $2.33 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.22 by $0.11. The firm 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 last year, the firm earned $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 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets 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 3.0%. 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 negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Brighthouse Financial earned a media sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Brighthouse Financial.

Brighthouse Financial saw a decline in short interest in the month of 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 daily trading volume, of 1,260,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.1 days. Approximately 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 Globe Life (GL), AEGON (AEG), Lincoln National (LNC), 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).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Brighthouse Financial investors own include Metlife (MET), iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEI), iShares California Muni Bond ETF (CMF), AT&T (T), Twitter (TWTR), Netflix (NFLX), Walt Disney (DIS), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Comcast (CMCSA) and Electronic Arts (EA).

Brighthouse Financial's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL (0.38%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.27%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.25%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.17%), Grace & White Inc. NY (0.17%) and Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.16%). 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 Retirement Systems of Alabama, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Arizona State Retirement System, Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Virginia National Bank, Grace & White Inc. NY, Diligent Investors LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View Insider Buying and Selling for Brighthouse Financial.

BHF stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hennessy Advisors Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System, Polianta Ltd, SG Americas Securities LLC, New York State Teachers Retirement System, Strs Ohio, Sciencast Management LP and Alpine Global Management 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 $39.81.

Brighthouse Financial has a market capitalization of $4.30 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]