Brighthouse Financial Stock Options Expiring on 16th of May 2025
| BHF Stock | USD 51.74 1.29 2.56% |
Brighthouse Financial's latest option contracts expiring on 2025-05-16 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.53 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.66 over 14 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2025-05-16. The total put volume is at 18.0, with calls trading at the volume of 18.0. This yields a 0.16 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2025-05-16 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows Brighthouse Financial's distribution of open interest by maturity on contracts that have not yet been settled. The area between the two highest points is the projection of the price at expiration. Brighthouse Financial's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Brighthouse Financial's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
Brighthouse Financial Maximum Pain Price across 2025-05-16 Option Contracts
Max pain usually refers to a trading concept that asserts that market manipulation can cause the market price of particular securities such as Brighthouse Financial close to expiration to expire worthless. So, Max pain occurs when market makers reach a net positive position across all options at a strike price where option holders stand to lose the most money. By contrast, Brighthouse Financial's option sellers may reap the most after selling more options than buying, causing them to expire worthless.
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Brighthouse Financial In The Money Call Balance
When Brighthouse Financial's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Brighthouse Financial stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Brighthouse Financial's options that are 'In the Money' or 'Out of the Money', the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
While 'out-of-the-money' option contracts written on Brighthouse Financial are typically viewed as the more aggressive, there are potential upsides to purchasing these types of options contracts. For one, the cost to buy an 'Out of the Money' option is lower than the cost to buy an 'In the Money' option. This cost-benefit is due to the fact that at the time of the purchase, 'Out of the Money' contracts have no intrinsic value. So, while the potential for a 100% loss is more significant, the cost and risk to enter the trade are lower.
Brighthouse Current Options Market Mood
Brighthouse Financial's open interest and total value indicators provide investors with the necessary information to digest the overall options buildup for its expiring contracts. In addition, it helps Brighthouse Stock's traders understand whether a recent fall or rise in the market is unreasonable and if the time has come to take contrarian positions. These ratios are calculated based on options trading volumes and current open interest.
Put-to-Call Open Interest
Put-to-Call Volume
Unfortunately, most Brighthouse Financial's options investors are not very successful. Brighthouse Financial's option open interest and volume spread between outstanding puts and calls are regarded by many investors as reliable indicators of the overall future market direction.
Rule 16 of the current Brighthouse contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Brighthouse Financial will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0331% per day over the life of the 2025-05-16 option contract. With Brighthouse Financial trading at USD 51.74, that is roughly USD 0.0171. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Brighthouse Financial's daily price movement you should consider buying Brighthouse Financial options at the current volatility level of 0.53%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Brighthouse Financial Option Chain
When Brighthouse Financial's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Brighthouse Financial stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying options that are ITM or OTM, the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
Brighthouse Financial's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Brighthouse. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Brighthouse. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Brighthouse Financial against a given expiration period. The table below combines all the option information in the form of a chain but before you use it, remember that it entails significant risk and it is not for everyone. | Open Int | Expiration | Current Spread | Last Price | |||
Call | BHF Option Call 16-05-2025 30 | 10 | 2025-05-16 | 20.1 - 24.4 | 22.7 | In |
Call | BHF Option Call 16-05-2025 35 | 7 | 2025-05-16 | 15.6 - 19.9 | 18.0 | In |
Call | BHF Option Call 16-05-2025 40 | 10 | 2025-05-16 | 9.5 - 14.0 | 7.95 | In |
Call | BHF Option Call 16-05-2025 45 | 1 | 2025-05-16 | 8.9 - 10.7 | 8.75 | In |
Call | BHF Option Call 16-05-2025 50 | 121 | 2025-05-16 | 6.0 - 6.4 | 4.9 | In |
Call | BHF Option Call 16-05-2025 55 | 146 | 2025-05-16 | 3.5 - 3.8 | 3.6 | Out |
Call | BHF Option Call 16-05-2025 60 | 11 | 2025-05-16 | 1.85 - 2.85 | 2.65 | Out |
Call | BHF Option Call 16-05-2025 65 | 60 | 2025-05-16 | 0.05 - 1.45 | 1.21 | Out |
Put | BHF Option Put 16-05-2025 25 | 1 | 2025-05-16 | 0.0 - 4.8 | 0.76 | Out |
Put | BHF Option Put 16-05-2025 30 | 4 | 2025-05-16 | 0.0 - 4.8 | 0.8 | Out |
Put | BHF Option Put 16-05-2025 35 | 2 | 2025-05-16 | 0.2 - 4.9 | 1.0 | Out |
Put | BHF Option Put 16-05-2025 40 | 158 | 2025-05-16 | 0.9 - 1.4 | 1.4 | Out |
Put | BHF Option Put 16-05-2025 45 | 5 | 2025-05-16 | 1.7 - 2.45 | 2.85 | Out |
Put | BHF Option Put 16-05-2025 50 | 73 | 2025-05-16 | 2.8 - 3.7 | 3.8 | Out |
Brighthouse Financial Market Cap Over Time
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Brighthouse Financial Corporate Management
| Allie Lin | Executive Counsel | Profile | |
| Janet Morgan | VP Treasurer | Profile | |
| Kristine Toscano | Chief Officer | Profile | |
| John CFA | Executive Officer | Profile | |
| David Rosenbaum | Executive Underwriting | Profile |
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Is Life & Health Insurance space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Brighthouse Financial. If investors know Brighthouse will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Brighthouse Financial listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth (0.64) | Earnings Share (20.13) | Revenue Per Share 77.866 | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.726 | Return On Assets (0) |
The market value of Brighthouse Financial is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Brighthouse that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Brighthouse Financial's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Brighthouse Financial's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Brighthouse Financial's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Brighthouse Financial's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Brighthouse Financial's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Brighthouse Financial is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Brighthouse Financial's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.