Brighthouse Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a provider of annuity and life insurance products. Co. is organized into three segments: annuities, which consists of variable, fixed, index-linked and income annuities designed to address contract holders' needs for protected wealth accumulation on a tax-deferred basis, wealth transfer and income security; life, which consists of insurance products and services, including term, universal, whole and variable life products designed to address policyholders' needs for financial security and protected wealth transfer; and run-off, which consists of products no longer actively sold and which are separately managed. More details about Brighthouse Finl at:
http://www.brighthousefinancial.com.
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Should Brighthouse Finl shares be counted among the
Top 10 Cheap Growth Stocks? To start, we see that the recent trading price for BHF stock is $48.91 (as of 4/19/2024). The most recent quarter's (MRQ) earnings result, annualized, was $11.68/share. Looking at the sum total of quarterly earnings across the trailing twelve month (TTM) period, Brighthouse Finl produced $14.09/share. And taking the median quarterly result across the TTM period, and annualizing it, results in $14.08/share. Comparing these various earnings metrics against the stock price, we end up with a PE ratio of 3.5 for the TTM Median method, 4.2 for price to earnings using MRQ annualized, and 3.5 for current price/TTM earnings. Based on BHF's history, that recent TTM PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 10.3% lower than the average (TTM method) of 3.9.