With 0.53 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.38 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $52.69 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $50.91. The 52-week range on BHF shows that it touched its highest point at $56.24 and its lowest point at $40.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $48.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.06.
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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 8.01%, but this was up by 13.11% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 21.76% while six-month performance rose 9.71%. The stock gained 6.37% in the past year, while it has lost -3.46% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BHF yields -15.90 with Next year EPS estimates of 20.00. For the next quarter, that number is 4.54. This implies an EPS growth rate of -11.87% for this year and 54.40% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 63.50 million BHF shares are outstanding with a float of 60.09 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 0.9 million, which was 147.0 higher than short shares on 1726185600. 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 0.82774 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 58.0 and a low target of 38.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 46.86. Based on these targets, BHF could surge 13.53% to reach the target high and fall by -25.62% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -8.28% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $13.19193 being high and $12.6359 being low. For BHF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $12.95562. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $3.87. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $4.88 and the low estimate is $4.29. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $4.55.
