14.48% percent quarterly performance for Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF) is not indicative of the underlying story

A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ: BHF) stock price down -0.83% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $58.98. BHF’s price has ranged from $40.00 to $64.00 over the past 52 weeks.

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Financial Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -7.53% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 1.72%. With a float of $58.77 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $59.84 million.

The firm has a total of 1500 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. 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) Insider Activity

As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Insurance – Life Industry. The insider ownership of Brighthouse Financial Inc is 0.98%, while institutional ownership is 81.85%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 31 ’25, was worth 610,000. In this transaction EVP & Chief Investment Officer of this company sold 10,000 shares at a rate of $61.00, taking the stock ownership to the 66,262 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jan 31 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 10,000 for $61.00, making the entire transaction worth $610,000.

Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 1.72% per share during the next fiscal year.

Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ: BHF) Trading Performance Indicators

Here are Brighthouse Financial Inc’s current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.71.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -20.33, a number that is poised to hit 4.72 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 22.25 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Brighthouse Financial Inc (BHF)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Brighthouse Financial Inc, BHF], we can find that recorded value of 0.76 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.69 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 26.87%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.97.

During the past 100 days, Brighthouse Financial Inc’s (BHF) raw stochastic average was set at 73.87%, which indicates a significant increase from 62.26% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 61.59% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 39.53% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $51.58, while its 200-day Moving Average is $47.32. Now, the first resistance to watch is $59.08. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $59.67. The third major resistance level sits at $59.97. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $58.19, it is likely to go to the next support level at $57.89. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $57.30.

Brighthouse Financial Inc (NASDAQ: BHF) Key Stats

With a market capitalization of 3.47 billion, the company has a total of 59,354K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 4,117 M while annual income is -1,112 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 2,018 M while its latest quarter income was 176,000 K.