With 1.14 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.43 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $62.95 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $61.03. The 52-week range on BHF shows that it touched its highest point at $64.00 and its lowest point at $40.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $57.50. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.11.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of BHF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 20.54%, but this was up by 27.04% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 25.58% while six-month performance rose 20.92%. The stock gained 14.27% in the past year, while it has gained 27.52% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BHF yields -20.33 with Next year EPS estimates of 19.97. For the next quarter, that number is 4.34. This implies an EPS growth rate of 41.59% for this year and -4.06% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 59.84 million BHF shares are outstanding with a float of 58.77 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 1.4 million, which was 236.99998999999997 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Eric Thomas Steigerwalt as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Edward Allen Spehar Jr. serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.8148 of BHF’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BHF since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With BHF analysts setting a high price target of 85.0 and a low target of 41.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 59.71429. Based on these targets, BHF could surge 38.75% to reach the target high and fall by -33.07% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -2.52% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $21.00756 being high and $20.55038 being low. For BHF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $20.81326. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $4.96 and the low estimate is $4.52. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $4.75.