“Interest on borrowings decreased due to lower average borrowings, which decreased funding costs by $17 million and $36 million, over the respective periods of comparison, and lower average interest rates, which decreased funding costs by $8 million and $15 mi…”10-Q · Jul 28, 2026 ↗
Bread Financial Holdings, Inc.
BFH
Market read
Bread Financial Holdings, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 22 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 6 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Reported decrease in interest expense from lower average interest rates (six-month impact: $27M decrease), partially offset by higher deposit balances (+$22M).
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if BFH's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 22 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 6 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Reported decrease in interest expense from lower average interest rates (six-month impact: $27M decrease), partially offset by higher deposit balances (+$22M).
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 8.80x in the latest annual period.
- Macroeconomic conditions has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Latest annual revenue changed -19.0% year over year.
- Operating margin changed -5.2 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Pricing and mix has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- P/E is 164% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 95% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
106.42Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“We also recognize that a customer’s ability and willingness to repay us has been negatively impacted by factors such as recent inflation and elevated interest rates, and any persistent effects therefrom, which may result in higher delinquencies and increased…”10-Q · Jul 28, 2026 ↗
“Higher Average credit card and other loans balances, the ongoing effects of pricing actions (such as increases to our annual percentage rates) and lower reversals of finance charges and late fees, resulting from lower gross credit losses were partially offset…”10-Q · Jul 28, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 1.1× · EV/sales 1.1×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Scenarios are withheld for Financial Services until sector-specific earnings and capital metrics are available; generic revenue/P/S scaffolds would be misleading.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for BFH. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for BFH. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind BFH
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
CZRCaesars Entertainment, Inc.partnerApr 28, 2026 ▾
“Our partner base consists of large consumer-based businesses, including well-known brands such as (alphabetically) AAA, Academy Sports + Outdoors, Caesars, Dell Technologies, Hard Rock International, the NFL, Raymour & Flanigan, Saks Fifth Avenue, Signet, Ult…”
ULTAUlta Beauty, Inc.partnerApr 28, 2026 ▾
“Avenue, Signet, Ulta and Victoria’s Secret, as well as small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).”
Depended on by
PBIPitney Bowes Inc.partnerFeb 19, 2026 ▾
“15 Stock Performance Graph Our peer group is comprised of: ACCO Brands Corporation, Bread Financial Holdings, Inc., Cimpress plc, CSG Systems International, Inc., Deluxe Corporation, Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated, E2open Parent Holdings, Inc., HNI Corporation…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
BFH is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Macro-Sensitive Cyclicals. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.