Bread Financial (BFH) Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bread Financial in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" BFH shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BFH, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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7 brokers have issued 1 year price targets for Bread Financial's shares. Their BFH share price forecasts range from $30.00 to $64.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $44.88 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 55.3% from the stock's current price.
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Bread Financial's stock was trading at $37.66 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, BFH stock has decreased by 23.3% and is now trading at $28.90.
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Bread Financial saw a drop in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,240,000 shares, a drop of 8.6% from the April 30th total of 4,640,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 779,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.4 days. Currently, 8.6% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 27th 2023.
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Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BFH) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April, 27th. The company reported $9.08 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $7.11 by $1.97. The firm earned $1.29 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.06 billion. Bread Financial had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.35% and a net margin of 9.66%. The firm's revenue was up 40.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $4.21 earnings per share.

Bread Financial declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 27th. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 12th will be given a dividend of $0.21 per share on Friday, June 16th. This represents a $0.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.91%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 11th.
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Bread Financial (NYSE:BFH) pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.83%. The dividend payout ratio is 8.99%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BFH will have a dividend payout ratio of 8.46% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Bread Financial trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BFH."

Bread Financial's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Turtle Creek Asset Management Inc. (9.87%), BlackRock Inc. (9.76%), Franklin Resources Inc. (5.72%), Wellington Management Group LLP (5.32%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (4.33%) and State Street Corp (3.91%). Insiders that own company stock include Timothy J Theriault and Turtle Creek Asset Management.
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Shares of BFH 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 BFH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $28.90.

Bread Financial (NYSE:BFH) has a market capitalization of $1.45 billion and generates $4.00 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $223 million in net income (profit) each year or $9.34 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 7,500 workers across the globe.

Bread Financial's mailing address is 3075 Loyalty Circle, Columbus OH, 43219. The official website for the company is www.breadfinancial.com. The company can be reached via phone at (614) 729-4000, via email at investorrelations@alliancedata.com, or via fax at 214-494-3000.