Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (BHF)

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Brighthouse Financial, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Brighthouse Financial, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $6.8 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9.4% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 54% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 5 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Brighthouse Financial, Inc. earned about 6 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 97 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 5.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Brighthouse Financial, Inc.'s standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $6.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 43% by size; a net margin of 6.5% ranks in the top 36%; revenue growth of -0.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 31% (its annual reports).

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Brighthouse Financial, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Steigerwalt, Eric T (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2017-07-06, 9.4 years (top 19% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.7 years (top 21%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 38%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Brighthouse Financial, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $5.4 billion against debt of $3.2 billion leaves 0.9% of its assets as net cash, top 42% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.8% of revenue (bottom 9%) (its annual report).

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Brighthouse Financial, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.5% a year over the last three filed years against 9.4% over all 10, slowing (bottom 14% of its family); the newest year grew 43.3% (top 8%) (its annual reports). Brighthouse Financial, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Annuities at $3.6 billion, Runoff at $1.3 billion, Life at $1.1 billion. 3 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 60% of revenue (its annual report).

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Brighthouse Financial, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $6.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 72.7% above the $3.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 8% of its family); net income of $438 million against a prior three-year average of $1.1 billion (bottom 19%); a net margin of 6.5% against 12.6% before (bottom 31%) (its annual reports).