Bread Financial (BFH) Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bread Financial in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 2 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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8 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Bread Financial's stock. Their BFH share price forecasts range from $30.00 to $64.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $42.13 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 22.4% 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 shares have decreased by 8.6% and is now trading at $34.41.
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Bread Financial saw a increase in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 4,000,000 shares, an increase of 9.9% from the August 15th total of 3,640,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 938,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.3 days. Currently, 8.1% 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, October 26th 2023.
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Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BFH) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 27th. The company reported $1.27 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.23 by $1.04. The business earned $952 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $0.41 million. Bread Financial had a net margin of 10.05% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.52%.

Bread Financial announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 27th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.21 per share on Friday, September 15th. This represents a $0.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.44%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 10th.
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Bread Financial (NYSE:BFH) pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.42%. The dividend payout ratio is 8.37%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BFH will have a dividend payout ratio of 8.62% 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 a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (9.60%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (4.97%), Franklin Resources Inc. (4.45%), State Street Corp (3.82%), Hsbc Holdings PLC (3.58%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.96%). Insiders that own company stock include Roger H Ballou, 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 $34.41.

Bread Financial (NYSE:BFH) has a market capitalization of $1.73 billion and generates $4.33 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $223 million in net income (profit) each year or $10.04 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.