Shares of Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BFH – Get Free Report) reached a new 52-week high on Thursday after Royal Bank of Canada raised their price target on the stock from $38.00 to $45.00. Royal Bank of Canada currently has a sector perform rating on the stock. Bread Financial traded as high as $43.28 and last traded at $42.82, with a volume of 118495 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $40.84.
Several other equities analysts have also recently issued reports on BFH. Argus cut Bread Financial from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 1st. Evercore ISI raised shares of Bread Financial from an “underperform” rating to an “in-line” rating and raised their price objective for the company from $42.00 to $45.00 in a research note on Thursday. Barclays dropped their target price on shares of Bread Financial from $27.00 to $26.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, April 9th. BMO Capital Markets raised their price target on Bread Financial from $31.00 to $33.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a research report on Friday, April 26th. Finally, BTIG Research assumed coverage on Bread Financial in a report on Friday, June 7th. They issued a “neutral” rating for the company. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have assigned a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Bread Financial currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $40.92.
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Bread Financial Trading Up 7.9 %
The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43, a quick ratio of 1.18 and a current ratio of 1.18. The stock has a market cap of $2.18 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.55, a P/E/G ratio of 0.18 and a beta of 1.94. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $39.42 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $36.41.
Bread Financial (NYSE:BFH – Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, April 25th. The company reported $2.73 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $2.92 by ($0.19). Bread Financial had a return on equity of 14.44% and a net margin of 8.08%. The business had revenue of $991.00 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $998.96 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $9.08 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was down 23.1% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts forecast that Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. will post 5.63 EPS for the current year.
Bread Financial Dividend Announcement
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 14th. Investors of record on Friday, May 10th were given a $0.21 dividend. This represents a $0.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.91%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, May 9th. Bread Financial’s dividend payout ratio is currently 10.58%.
About Bread Financial
Bread Financial Holdings, Inc provides tech-forward payment and lending solutions to customers and consumer-based industries in North America. It offers credit card and other loans financing services, including risk management solutions, account origination, and funding services for private label and co-brand credit card programs, as well as through Bread partnerships; and Comenity-branded general purpose cash-back credit.
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