With 0.8 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.7 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $54.84 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $52.85. The 52-week range on BHF shows that it touched its highest point at $64.12 and its lowest point at $40.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $63.56. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.95.
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 down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.73%, but this was down by -8.02% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.29% while six-month performance rose 29.60%. The stock gained 17.42% in the past year, while it has gained 12.93% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BHF yields 5.17 with Next year EPS estimates of 22.38. For the next quarter, that number is 4.73. This implies an EPS growth rate of -6.34% for this year and 11.65% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 58.63 million BHF shares are outstanding with a float of 57.43 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 0.85 million, which was 147.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. 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 0.75044 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 52.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 63.375. Based on these targets, BHF could surge 56.68% to reach the target high and fall by -4.15% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.82% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $21.0076 being high and $20.55042 being low. For BHF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $20.8133. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $5.45 and the low estimate is $4.96. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $5.13.
