With 0.74 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.91 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $52.075 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $50.465. 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 $58.40. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.00.
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 7.04%, but this was down by -11.04% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.03% while six-month performance rose 9.75%. The stock gained 5.63% in the past year, while it has gained 5.45% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BHF yields 5.17 with Next year EPS estimates of 21.30. For the next quarter, that number is 4.55. This implies an EPS growth rate of -9.69% for this year and 10.21% 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 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 1.1 million, which was 189.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. 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 0.74641 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 75.0 and a low target of 41.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 59.33333. Based on these targets, BHF could surge 48.05% to reach the target high and fall by -19.07% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 17.12% 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 $5.3 and the low estimate is $4.54. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $4.97.
