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Brighthouse Financial Trying To Close In On Key Technical Measure

Brighthouse Financial saw a welcome improvement to its Relative Strength (RS) Rating on Friday, rising from 67 to 71.

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This proprietary rating measures market leadership by showing how a stock's price movement over the last 52 weeks compares to that of the other stocks in our database.

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Earnings growth dropped in the most recent quarter from 101% to -2%. But sales moved higher, from -14% to 3,130%.

Brighthouse Financial holds the No. 5 rank among its peers in the Insurance-Life industry group. Prudential ADR is the top-ranked stock within the group.

This article was created automatically with Stats Perform's Wordsmith software using data and article templates supplied by Investor's Business Daily. An IBD journalist may have edited the article.

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