BHF (Brighthouse Financial Inc) climbed 3.43 at the last close: Is This Today’s Most Popular Stock?

On Monday, Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ: BHF) was 3.43% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $50.51. A 52-week range for BHF has been $40.00 – $56.24.

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During the last 5-year period, the sales drop of Financial Sector giant was -11.41%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 33.78%. With a float of $60.09 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $63.50 million.

Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 1500 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 105.05%, operating margin of -8.91%, and the pretax margin is -37.27%.

Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Brighthouse Financial Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Brighthouse Financial Inc is 1.09%, while institutional ownership is 82.24%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 11 ’24, was worth 196,361. In this transaction EVP & Chief Investment Officer of this company sold 4,265 shares at a rate of $46.04, taking the stock ownership to the 86,262 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Sep 03 ’24, when Company’s EVP & Chief Investment Officer sold 5,000 for $45.22, making the entire transaction worth $226,100. This insider now owns 91,262 shares in total.

Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF) Recent Fiscal highlights

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 33.78% per share during the next fiscal year.

Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ: BHF) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF) is doing with its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.64.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -20.33, a number that is poised to hit 4.54 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 20.00 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF)

Looking closely at Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ: BHF), its last 5-days average volume was 0.58 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 0.43 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 70.08%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.60.

During the past 100 days, Brighthouse Financial Inc’s (BHF) raw stochastic average was set at 92.45%, which indicates a significant increase from 84.18% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 56.25% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 35.57% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $45.95, while its 200-day Moving Average is $46.53. However, in the short run, Brighthouse Financial Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $52.90. Second resistance stands at $53.57. The third major resistance level sits at $54.53. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $51.27, it is likely to go to the next support level at $50.31. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $49.64.

Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ: BHF) Key Stats

There are 60,756K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 3.14 billion. As of now, sales total 4,117 M while income totals -1,112 M. Its latest quarter income was 1,427 M while its last quarter net income were 34,000 K.