MetLife, Inc. (MET) Stock

About MetLife, Inc.

MetLife, Inc. operates as a leading global financial services entity, delivering an extensive array of services encompassing insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management. The company manages its operations through five primary divisions: the U.S., Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and MetLife Holdings. Its broad insurance offerings include life, dental, group short-term and long-term disability, individual disability, pet, accidental death and dismemberment, vision, and accident and health coverages, as well as prepaid legal plans. MetLife also supports employers with administrative services-only (ASO) arrangements. Furthermore, it provides sophisticated financial instruments such as general and separate account contracts, synthetic guaranteed interest contracts, and private floating rate funding agreements. The company facilitates pension risk transfers, offers institutional income annuities, structures settlements, and delivers capital markets investment products. Specialized life insurance products and funding agreements are also available for post-retirement benefits, alongside company, bank, or trust-owned life insurance used to finance non-qualified executive benefit programs. In addition, MetLife offers a variety of annuity options including fixed, indexed-linked, and variable, alongside pension and regular savings products. Its life insurance portfolio features whole life, term life, endowments, universal and variable life, and group life policies. The company also provides longevity reinsurance solutions, credit insurance products, and protection for long-term healthcare services. MetLife, Inc. was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in New York City.

MetLife, Inc. is led by CEO Michel Abbas Khalaf, employs 45,000 people, headquartered in New York City, US, publicly traded since 2000.

MetLife, Inc. (MET) stock trades at $97.02 with a market capitalization of $62.43B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 15.10, price-to-book of 1.80, price-to-sales of 0.67. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $67.33 and $97.49, and currently trades at its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.88%.

On profitability, MetLife, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 13.01%, above the typical market average, return on capital employed of 16.12%, an operating margin of 6.05%, a net profit margin of 4.70%.

In its most recent fiscal year, MetLife, Inc. reported annual revenue of $77.1B, net profit of $3.4B, revenue has compounded at 2.6% a year over the last five years, profit at -9.0% a year.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74, a current ratio of 0.65, total assets of $745.2B, $22.0B in cash and equivalents.

MET has an average daily trading volume of 3,661,549 shares, a beta of 0.78 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.metlife.com