Nothing is Better Than Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF) stock at the moment

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.