Metlife Inc
Metlife Inc (MET) is listed on NYSE and classified in Insurance - Life, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in New York, United States and has 46,000 employees. The company is worth $65.82B and trades at 19.8x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $77.08B in fiscal 2025, up 8.6% from the year before. Net income was $3.38B. The share price is within 3% of its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.29%, and has raised its annual dividend for 13 years in a row in our records. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $348.79M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +71.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,865.09▲ +86.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $78.94 | $81.88 | $66.13 | $72.37 | $62.49 | $46.95 | $50.97 | $41.06 | $50.56 | $48.03 | $42.97 | $48.21 | $48.06 | $29.36 | $27.79 | $39.61 | $31.51 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 2.3% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 11.4 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 12.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 6.4% a year against a 7.9% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLAllstate Corp | $259.10 | 5.2x | 2.1x | 1.67% | 46.11% | $65.52B |
| AONAon plc | $306.80 | 16.9x | 6.8x | 1.07% | 44.70% | $65.08B |
| NWGNatWest Group plc | $16.99 | 8.5x | 1.3x | 5.53% | 14.78% | $67.27B |
| APOApollo Global Management, Inc. | $114.83 |
| $31.07 |
| $54.92 |
| P/E | 11.4x | 16.8x | 13.8x | 36.5x | 11.5x | 8.2x | 8.3x | 8.4x | 8.4x | 14.0x | 71.7x | 9.3x | 10.0x | 18.5x | 29.4x | 5.4x | 15.5x | — | 8.4x | 11.2x |
| P/S | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.6x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.5x | 0.5x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.5x | — |
| P/B | 0.9x | 1.8x | 2.0x | 1.6x | 1.9x | 0.8x | 0.6x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 1.2x | — |
| EPS | $4.71 | $5.94 | $1.81 | $6.30 | $7.65 | $5.68 | $6.06 | $4.91 | $3.62 | $0.67 | $4.62 | $4.83 | $2.59 | $1.00 | $5.13 | $2.55 | -$2.58 | $3.69 | $4.88 |
| Dividend yield | 2.74% | 2.85% | 2.63% | 3.12% | 2.74% | 3.04% | 3.88% | 3.41% | 4.04% | 2.91% | 2.92% | 3.06% | 2.45% | 1.87% | 2.25% | 2.37% | 1.67% | 2.09% | 2.12% | 1.20% |
| Payout | 31.74% | 47.75% | 36.28% | 113.81% | 31.43% | 24.84% | 32.04% | 28.71% | 33.81% | 40.59% | 209.51% | 28.45% | 24.45% | 34.71% | 66.07% | 12.85% | 25.87% | — | 17.87% | 13.50% |
| Profit margin | 6.44% | 4.38% | 6.24% | 2.36% | 7.68% | 9.98% | 7.97% | 8.47% | 7.54% | 6.44% | 1.40% | 8.76% | 8.61% | 4.94% | 1.94% | 9.14% | 5.10% | -5.52% | 6.29% | 9.16% |
| ROE | 8.74% | 11.90% | 16.13% | 5.26% | 17.68% | 10.16% | 7.25% | 8.92% | 9.71% | 6.83% | 1.26% | 7.89% | 8.74% | 5.47% | 2.05% | 11.17% | 5.48% | -6.78% | 13.52% | 11.67% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+89.0% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 41.2x |
| 3.4x |
| 1.96% |
| 11.41% |
| $67.81B |
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| AFLAflac Inc | $123.27 | 13.3x | 2.0x | 1.98% | 16.91% | $61.8B |