MetLife is an insurance - life business based in the US. MetLife shares (MET.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $73.10 – an increase of 0.65% over the previous day. MetLife employs 45,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $66.9 billion.
How to buy shares in MetLife
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- Open your account. Provide your personal information and sign up.
- Confirm your payment details. You'll need to fund your account with a bank transfer, debit card or credit card.
- Search the platform for stock code: MET in this case.
- Research stocks. The platform should provide the latest information available.
- Buy your stocks. Place a market order or limit order with your preferred number of shares. It's that simple.
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Is it a good time to buy MetLife stock?
Only you can make the decision on the time to leap... but here's some supporting information and analysis.
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Use our graph to track the performance of MET stocks over time.
Share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, MetLife's shares have ranged in value from as little as $47.7495 up to $73.56. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while MetLife's is 1.033. This would suggest that MetLife's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Historical closes compared with the last close of $73.1
| 1 week (2024-03-18) | 0.97% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-02-25) | 6.61% |
| 3 months (2023-12-25) | 10.36% |
| 6 months (2023-09-25) | 15.92% |
| 1 year (2023-03-21) | 30.28% |
| 2 years (2022-03-22) | 5.30% |
| 3 years (2021-03-25) | 20.19% |
| 5 years (2019-03-25) | 72.16% |
The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.
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Is MetLife under- or over-valued?
Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the MetLife P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA
- P/E ratio
- MetLife PEG ratio
- MetLife EBITDA
MetLife's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 40x. In other words, MetLife stocks trade at around 40x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
MetLife's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.1086. A PEG ratio below 1 can be interpreted as meaning the shares are not overvalued given the current rate of growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into MetLife's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
MetLife's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $3.9 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a MetLife's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Frequently asked questions
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- Dividend yield
- Forward yield
- Payout ratio
Dividend yield: 2.87% of stock value
Forward annual dividend yield: 2.87% of stock value
Dividend payout ratio: 28.34% of net profits
MetLife has recently paid out dividends equivalent to 2.87% of its share value annually.
MetLife has paid out, on average, around 28.34% of recent net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2.87% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), shareholders could enjoy a 2.87% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In MetLife's case, that would currently equate to about 2.06 per share.
While MetLife's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that it may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
MetLife's most recent dividend payout was on 13 March 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 4 February 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
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Currently 16.407% of MetLife shares are held by insiders and 75.979% by institutions.
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MetLife's fiscal year ends in December.
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MetLife's address is: 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States, 10166-0188
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Have MetLife's shares ever split?
MetLife's shares were split on a 1122:1000 basis on 6 August 2017. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1122 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your MetLife shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 10.9% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for MetLife shares which in turn could have impacted MetLife's share price.
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It's as easy to sell MetLife as it is to buy! Here's how to sell MetLife stocks that you already own.
- Open your investment app. If you've got one with desktop access, you can log in online
- Go to your portfolio. This should be in the main menu
- Find your shares. You may be able to search your portfolio
- Choose how many you'd like to sell. You'll be able to review the price and see how much you'll receive
- Sell your MetLife shares. Your investment platform will let you know when your shares are sold
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Most dealing providers will let you use your debit card to top up your account and buy shares. The main ways are with a debit card, bank transfer or with Apple/Google Pay.
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The easiest way to get hold of some MetLife shares is to sign up for a stock trading app and place a market order or basic order. This type of order tells the platform that you're interested, so it'll try to execute it as quickly as it can. It could take some time for the order to go through, especially if there's a lot of volatility in MetLife shares.
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MetLife financials
Revenue TTM $66.9 billion Operating margin TTM 13.83% Gross profit TTM $14.9 billion Return on assets TTM 0.3% Return on equity TTM 5.31% Profit margin 2.36% Book value $41.07 Market capitalisation $52.3 billion TTM: trailing 12 months
