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Brighthouse Financial, Inc.

BHFAL
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Life Insurance
SEC CIK
0001685040

No open-market purchases or sales by Brighthouse Financial, Inc. insiders were filed in the last 90 days; 1 institution reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $31.4K in total; no superinvestor holds it.

Other share classesBHFBHFAMBHFANBHFAOBHFAP

Four kinds of short-selling data, each measuring something different:

  • Short interest: shares sold short and not yet bought back, as of a settlement date. FINRA publishes it twice a month, about eight business days after the settlement date.
  • Daily short volume: shares sold short each day in off-exchange trades reported to FINRA. It counts trades, not open positions, and is published the next day.
  • Fails-to-deliver: shares not delivered by the settlement date. The SEC publishes them twice a month, about two weeks late.
  • ATS (dark pool) volume: weekly volume on alternative trading systems and other off-exchange venues. FINRA publishes it two to four weeks after the week.

More in the glossary.

Short interest

Shares sold short and not yet bought back, from FINRA, on every settlement date in the last two years.

Short interest
6.62K
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
+4.35K
+191.7% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
1.00
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
47.0K
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 120,064 sharesNov 15, 2024: 112,375 sharesNov 29, 2024: 138,105 sharesDec 13, 2024: 188,391 sharesDec 31, 2024: 141,833 sharesJan 15, 2025: 150,273 sharesJan 31, 2025: 159,644 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 98,391 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 68,987 sharesMar 14, 2025: 100,067 sharesMar 31, 2025: 166,237 sharesApr 15, 2025: 179,265 sharesApr 30, 2025: 170,719 sharesMay 15, 2025: 167,312 sharesMay 30, 2025: 160,216 sharesJun 13, 2025: 162,142 sharesJun 30, 2025: 176,117 sharesJul 15, 2025: 167,333 sharesJul 31, 2025: 166,328 sharesAug 15, 2025: 65,610 sharesAug 29, 2025: 21,097 sharesSep 15, 2025: 1,779 sharesSep 30, 2025: 1,587 sharesOct 15, 2025: 1,595 sharesOct 31, 2025: 1,789 sharesNov 14, 2025: 1,072 sharesNov 28, 2025: 719 sharesDec 15, 2025: 5,470 sharesDec 31, 2025: 4,529 sharesJan 15, 2026: 15,720 sharesJan 30, 2026: 9,469 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 1,237 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 5,675 sharesMar 13, 2026: 1,188 sharesMar 31, 2026: 2,025 sharesApr 15, 2026: 5,704 sharesApr 30, 2026: 1,512 sharesMay 15, 2026: 5,058 sharesMay 29, 2026: 2,031 sharesJun 15, 2026: 4,840 sharesJun 30, 2026: 14,070 sharesJul 15, 2026: 5,375 sharesJul 31, 2026: 1,412 sharesAug 14, 2026: 779 sharesAug 31, 2026: 651 sharesSep 15, 2026: 1,883 sharesSep 30, 2026: 2,681 sharesOct 15, 2026: 2,270 sharesOct 30, 2026: 6,622 shares
Short interest in BHFAL by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 20266.62K+4.35K+191.7%47.0K1.00
Oct 15, 20262.27K−411−15.3%28.1K1.00
Sep 30, 20262.68K+798+42.4%25.2K1.00
Sep 15, 20261.88K+1.23K+189.3%26.5K1.00
Aug 31, 2026651−128−16.4%31.5K1.00
Aug 14, 2026779−633−44.8%32.8K1.00
Jul 31, 20261.41K−3.96K−73.7%21.5K1.00
Jul 15, 20265.38K−8.70K−61.8%19.5K1.00
Jun 30, 202614.1K+9.23K+190.7%29.4K1.00
Jun 15, 20264.84K+2.81K+138.3%19.7K1.00
May 29, 20262.03K−3.03K−59.9%23.9K1.00
May 15, 20265.06K+3.55K+234.5%18.0K1.00
Apr 30, 20261.51K−4.19K−73.5%19.1K1.00
Apr 15, 20265.70K+3.68K+181.7%14.3K1.00
Mar 31, 20262.02K+837+70.5%27.4K1.00
Mar 13, 20261.19K−4.49K−79.1%24.3K1.00
Feb 27, 20265.67K+4.44K+358.8%33.4K1.00
Feb 13, 20261.24K−8.23K−86.9%19.0K1.00
Jan 30, 20269.47K−6.25K−39.8%31.0K1.00
Jan 15, 202615.7K+11.2K+247.1%29.8K1.00
Dec 31, 20254.53K−941−17.2%91.3K1.00
Dec 15, 20255.47K+4.75K+660.8%53.6K1.00
Nov 28, 2025719−353−32.9%38.6K1.00
Nov 14, 20251.07K−717−40.1%80.8K1.00
Oct 31, 20251.79K+194+12.2%38.5K1.00
Oct 15, 20251.59K+8+0.5%24.7K1.00
Sep 30, 20251.59K−192−10.8%35.5K1.00
Sep 15, 20251.78K−19.3K−91.6%33.8K1.00
Aug 29, 202521.1K−44.5K−67.8%21.9K1.00
Aug 15, 202565.6K−100.7K−60.6%33.4K1.96
Jul 31, 2025166.3K−1.00K−0.6%134.4K1.24
Jul 15, 2025167.3K−8.78K−5.0%34.5K4.84
Jun 30, 2025176.1K+14.0K+8.6%32.0K5.50
Jun 13, 2025162.1K+1.93K+1.2%13.8K11.74
May 30, 2025160.2K−7.10K−4.2%22.4K7.17
May 15, 2025167.3K−3.41K−2.0%13.2K12.66
Apr 30, 2025170.7K−8.55K−4.8%17.2K9.92
Apr 15, 2025179.3K+13.0K+7.8%24.2K7.42
Mar 31, 2025166.2K+66.2K+66.1%35.9K4.63
Mar 14, 2025100.1K+31.1K+45.1%25.2K3.98
Feb 28, 202569.0K−29.4K−29.9%22.9K3.02
Feb 14, 202598.4K−61.3K−38.4%28.1K3.50
Jan 31, 2025159.6K+9.37K+6.2%46.3K3.45
Jan 15, 2025150.3K+8.44K+6.0%17.3K8.71
Dec 31, 2024141.8K−46.6K−24.7%39.0K3.63
Dec 13, 2024188.4K+50.3K+36.4%16.6K11.37
Nov 29, 2024138.1K+25.7K+22.9%25.8K5.34
Nov 15, 2024112.4K−7.69K−6.4%18.5K6.08
Oct 31, 2024120.1K+41.0K+51.9%20.3K5.92

Fails-to-deliver

Shares that weren't delivered by the settlement date, from the SEC, for the last 30 dates with fails. The price is the previous day's closing price published by the SEC.

Fails-to-deliver in BHFAL by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 14, 2026166$15.06$2.50K
Oct 8, 20263,223$14.85$47.9K
Oct 1, 20261$15.77$15.77
Sep 30, 20261$15.26$15.26
Sep 29, 20261$15.51$15.51
Sep 28, 20261$15.65$15.65
Sep 25, 20261,018$15.85$16.1K
Sep 24, 20264,050$15.90$64.4K
Sep 23, 202641$15.54$637.14
Sep 22, 2026280$15.45$4.33K
Sep 21, 2026242$15.32$3.71K
Sep 18, 20261,000$15.33$15.3K
Sep 16, 202697$15.26$1.48K
Sep 15, 202694$15.20$1.43K
Sep 14, 202692$15.21$1.40K
Sep 11, 2026424$15.20$6.44K
Aug 25, 202673$16.17$1.18K
Aug 24, 2026761$15.81$12.0K
Aug 3, 2026207$15.72$3.25K
Jul 29, 2026650$15.05$9.78K
Jun 30, 2026759$15.62$11.9K
Jun 26, 2026182$15.78$2.87K
Jun 10, 20261,961$15.81$31.0K
Jun 4, 2026226$15.96$3.61K
Jun 3, 2026304$16.09$4.89K
Jun 2, 2026418$16.16$6.75K
Jun 1, 20264,541$16.46$74.7K
May 12, 20262,102$16.82$35.4K
May 11, 20263,810$16.87$64.3K
May 8, 20261,969$16.90$33.3K

Daily short volume

Off-exchange short-sale volume, not short interest: shares sold short each day in trades reported to FINRA, for the last 30 trading days.

The short volume ratio isn't a sentiment gauge: market makers sell short to fill buy orders and to hedge, so short sales are usually about half of off-exchange volume.

Off-exchange short volume in BHFAL by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 10, 20268,741021,72540.2%
Nov 9, 20266,210013,87644.8%
Nov 6, 20263,8334412,37931.0%
Nov 5, 20269,199017,22753.4%
Nov 4, 202611,883018,26965.0%
Nov 3, 20265,802012,92444.9%
Nov 2, 20267,63768313,21157.8%
Oct 30, 202610,8891,31630,33935.9%
Oct 29, 202642,0432683,29550.5%
Oct 28, 20268,909014,74060.4%
Oct 27, 20267,03391514,19549.5%
Oct 26, 20265,345016,48032.4%
Oct 23, 20263,338010,71531.2%
Oct 22, 20265,701016,30535.0%
Oct 21, 20264,51720022,44520.1%
Oct 20, 20265,19207,39170.2%
Oct 19, 20261,950011,40017.1%
Oct 16, 20268,99850016,79353.6%
Oct 15, 202611,306027,24741.5%
Oct 14, 20267,594026,75328.4%
Oct 13, 20262,618025,52010.3%
Oct 12, 20262,95107,46039.6%
Oct 9, 20264,968013,15537.8%
Oct 8, 20268,190026,07831.4%
Oct 7, 20268,921013,84364.4%
Oct 6, 20262,254010,37321.7%
Oct 5, 202698007,23413.5%
Oct 2, 20265,22460028,86018.1%
Oct 1, 20261,92008,01624.0%
Sep 30, 20267,0839009,44475.0%

ATS (dark pool) volume

Weekly volume on alternative trading systems (ATS) and other off-exchange (OTC) venues, from FINRA, for the last 12 weeks. ATS share is ATS volume ÷ (ATS + OTC volume), not a share of all trading.

Weekly ATS and OTC volume in BHFAL
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 5, 2026T22,2275968,5983563.1%
Sep 28, 2026T28,10218250,83035313.7%
Sep 21, 2026T23,9839764,8643945.8%
Sep 14, 2026T25,7124884,2264666.4%
Sep 7, 2026T24,9314774,1614036.2%
Aug 31, 2026T24,91118868,6003066.7%
Aug 24, 2026T212,96836470,25038115.6%
Aug 17, 2026T23,53226868,7302704.9%
Aug 10, 2026T213,24871271,35431715.7%
Aug 3, 2026T215,451557131,29046210.5%
Jul 27, 2026T213,18397465,92832116.7%
Jul 20, 2026T24,65745742,4374099.9%