Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ: BHF) is 2.93% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $40.00 and a high of $64.12 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The BHF stock was last observed hovering at around $50.51 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.94%.
Currently trading at $49.57, the stock is -3.53% and -11.03% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.55 million and changing -1.86% at the moment leaves the stock -7.32% off its SMA200. BHF registered 3.18% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of -1.16%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $55.7154 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $53.4836.
The stock witnessed a -7.95% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -5.09%, and is -2.98% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.58% over the week and 3.30% over the month.
Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF) has around 1400 employees, a market worth around $2.85B and $7.04B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 5.93 and Fwd P/E is 2.28. Profit margin for the company is 7.26%. Distance from 52-week low is 23.92% and -22.69% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (6.09%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -12.51% this year
557.0 institutions hold shares in Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF), with institutional investors hold 85.48% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 57.87M, and float is at 56.78M with Short Float at 3.52%. Institutions hold 84.51% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is DODGE & COX with over 6.69 million shares valued at $289.89 million. The investor’s holdings represent 10.7959 of the BHF Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 6.2 million shares valued at $268.88 million to account for 10.0135 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 5.95 million shares representing 9.6046 and valued at over $257.9 million, while DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP holds 5.3622 of the shares totaling 3.32 million with a market value of $143.99 million.
Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Lambert Myles, the company’s EVP,Chief Mktg.& Dist. Officer. SEC filings show that Lambert Myles sold 8,400 shares of the company’s common stock on Jun 03 ’25 at a price of $58.66 per share for a total of $0.49 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 27377.0 shares.
