{"id":14970,"date":"2019-05-06T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/?post_type=oarticle&amp;p=2409042"},"modified":"2019-05-06T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T02:46:00","slug":"brighthouse-financial-reports-1q-earnings-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/05\/06\/brighthouse-financial-reports-1q-earnings-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighthouse Financial Reports 1Q Earnings Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/inn-og-default.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"push-box\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<span class=\"publication\">Associated Press<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Article\"> <span><\/p>\n<p> <span><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><\/span> <span><br \/>\n <span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ Brighthouse Financial Inc. (BHF) on Monday reported a loss of $737 million in its first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>On a per-share basis, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said it had a loss of $6.31. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.98 per share.<\/p>\n<p>The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.12 per share.<\/p>\n<p>The annuity and life insurance company posted revenue of $691 million in the period.<\/p>\n<p>Brighthouse Financial shares have climbed 40% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Monday, shares hit $42.77, a drop of 14% in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>This story was generated by Automated Insights (<a href=\"http:\/\/automatedinsights.com\/ap\">http:\/\/automatedinsights.com\/ap<\/a>) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on BHF at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zacks.com\/ap\/BHF\">https:\/\/www.zacks.com\/ap\/BHF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/oarticle\/brighthouse-financial-1q-earnings-snapshot\">Read the original article at insurancenewsnet.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ Brighthouse Financial Inc. (BHF) on Monday reported a loss of $737 million in its first quarter. On a per-share basis, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said it had&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}