With 0.84 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.75 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $60.14 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $57.35. 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 $64.40. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.96.
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 1.17%, but this was up by 8.77% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 24.62% while six-month performance rose 32.76%. The stock gained 17.33% in the past year, while it has gained 24.44% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BHF yields 5.17 with Next year EPS estimates of 22.25. For the next quarter, that number is 4.71. This implies an EPS growth rate of -6.20% for this year and 10.86% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 58.63 million BHF shares are outstanding with a float of 57.42 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 0.99 million, which was 170.00000000000003 higher than short shares on 1739491200. 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 0.74657 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 64.33333. Based on these targets, BHF could surge 42.19% to reach the target high and fall by -13.01% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 7.62% 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 $4.91. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $5.14.
