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Brighthouse Financial quarterly revenue slides 53.0% to $853.0 million

Brighthouse Financial has slipped into decline. Results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from the earnings release filed with the SEC on Nov 5, 2026.

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Brighthouse Financial has slipped into decline: revenue slid 53.0% to $853.0 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from $1.82 billion a year earlier, after 86.2% year over year growth the quarter before.

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What We Know

Revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 was $853.0 million, versus $1.82 billion in the same quarter a year earlier, down 53.0%. That is its lowest quarterly revenue of the last eight quarters.

Bar chart: Brighthouse Financial: revenue, last eight quarters. US$ billions by fiscal quarter end, as of Nov 5, 2026. Dec 2024 1.21; Mar 2025 2.39; Jun 2025 0.87; Sep 2025 1.82; Dec 2025 1.69; Mar 2026 1.53; Jun 2026 1.62; Sep 2026 0.85. Latest quarter $0.85B, Down 53.0% vs a year earlier.
Source: SEC EDGAR (earnings release and XBRL financial data)

Quarterly revenue by fiscal quarter end, oldest first: Dec 2024: $1.21 billion; Mar 2025: $2.39 billion; Jun 2025: $871.0 million; Sep 2025: $1.82 billion; Dec 2025: $1.69 billion; Mar 2026: $1.53 billion; Jun 2026: $1.62 billion; Sep 2026: $853.0 million.

Octans View

Year over year revenue change by quarter, computed from the filed figures: Dec 2025 up 40.2%; Mar 2026 down 36.1%; Jun 2026 up 86.2%; Sep 2026 down 53.0%. On those figures, Brighthouse Financial has slipped into decline. That read compares the latest two year over year growth rates and nothing else.

Bear Case · Room for Disagreement

This brief covers reported revenue and diluted earnings per share only. It does not cover guidance, margins, segment results, cash flow or the earnings call, and it makes no forecast. Revenue is the total on the release line we matched; a company's own adjusted measures can differ.

Method and source. Octans Research matched the revenue line in the earnings release (Exhibit 99.1) to the year ago quarter the company reported in its own XBRL financial data; the two must agree before anything is published. The quarterly history comes from the same XBRL data. The text is generated from those verified figures by a fixed template; no model wrote it.

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$BHF adjusted close, last 6 months $BHF adjusted close, last 6 months: series falling from 61.1 to 42.6 (−30.3%) from 2026-05-12 to 2026-11-06. Scale 40 to 70. 40506070 2026-05-122026-11-06 $BHF ADJUSTED CLOSE, LAST 6 MONTHS −30.3% 42.6
Source: Tiingo · As of 2026-11-06Indicative, not investment advice.

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  1. [1]SEC EDGAR — Brighthouse Financial earnings release for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 (Exhibit 99.1), filed Nov 5, 2026
  2. [2]SEC EDGAR — Brighthouse Financial XBRL financial data (company facts)

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