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MetLife, Inc. (MET)

Financial Services | Insurance - Life | New York, United States | NYSE
96.51 USD +0.26 (0.270%) ⇧ (Aug. 28, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)
After hours: 97.91 +1.40 (1.451%) ⇧ (Aug. 28, 2026, 7:49 p.m. EDT)

Short-term:★★★⯪☆Long-term:★★★★☆Dividends:★★★⯪☆
Hot Take | Aug. 22, 2026, 4:07 a.m. EDT

MetLife presents a compelling value proposition where the market is pricing in modest growth while the company delivers double-digit revenue expansion. The forward price-to-earnings ratio of 8.6 times contrasts sharply with the trailing twelve-month multiple of 18 times, highlighting a significant earnings re-rating opportunity ahead. While the stock trades near its fifty-two-week high, the statistical forecast models a nearly nine percent gain over the next forty-five days, supported by call activity targeting the 100-dollar level. The dividend yield of 2.5 percent is sustainable with a payout ratio under 45 percent and has shown consistent year-over-year increases. The primary risk lies in the heavy put open interest, which signals institutional hedging, but the fundamental trajectory of rising earnings and a fortress-like balance sheet supports a long-term accumulation strategy.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoARIMA ✓0.042421
AutoTheta0.070486
MSTL0.110468
AutoETS0.111944

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoARIMA

Forecast Reliability
Score 51%
H-stat 1.56
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.039
Excess Kurtosis 0.64
Attribute Value
Sector Financial Services
Ex Dividend Date 2026-08-03
Last Dividend Date 2026-08-03
Debt to Equity Ratio 179.933
Revenue per Share 121.348
Market Cap 61,329,879,040
Trailing P/E 18.45
Forward P/E 8.84
Beta 0.76
Profit Margins 4.57%
Website https://www.metlife.com

As of Aug. 22, 2026, 4:07 a.m. EDT: Speculators are positioning defensively with heavy out-of-the-money put open interest across longer-dated expirations, suggesting a desire for downside protection. However, call volume spikes at the 100 and 110 strikes indicate active bullish bets on a breakout above current resistance. Implied volatility remains compressed, reflecting a lack of immediate fear despite the hedging activity.


Dividend Data

Yield Summary
Last Yield 1yr Yield 3yr Avg 5yr Avg
0.62% 2.82% 2.96% 3.01%
Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2026-08-04 0.593000 0.616873
2026-05-12 0.593000 0.754069
2026-02-03 0.568000 0.738622
2025-11-04 0.568000 0.714825
2025-08-05 0.568000 0.758446
2025-05-06 0.568000 0.743261
2025-02-04 0.545000 0.643980
2024-11-05 0.545000 0.697377
2024-08-06 0.545000 0.794461
2024-05-06 0.545000 0.765557
2024-02-05 0.520000 0.790154
2023-11-08 0.520000 0.876158
2023-08-07 0.520000 0.810221
2023-05-08 0.520000 0.968523
2023-02-06 0.500000 0.713369
2022-11-07 0.500000 0.676315
2022-08-08 0.500000 0.794407
2022-05-09 0.500000 0.761731
2022-02-07 0.480000 0.696965
2021-11-08 0.480000 0.753059
2021-08-09 0.480000 0.793913
2021-05-10 0.480000 0.722130
2021-02-04 0.460000 0.886320
2020-11-02 0.460000 1.188630
2020-08-03 0.460000 1.233244
2020-05-07 0.460000 1.335656
2020-02-03 0.440000 0.885490
2019-11-04 0.440000 0.924564
2019-08-05 0.440000 0.965548
2019-05-06 0.440000 0.924564
2019-02-04 0.420000 0.930027
2018-11-05 0.420000 0.941915
2018-08-03 0.420000 0.926539
2018-05-04 0.420000 0.908501
2018-02-02 0.400000 0.841043
2017-11-03 0.400000 0.732198
2017-08-03 0.356506 0.747663
2017-05-04 0.356506 0.759734
2017-02-02 0.356506 0.777302
2016-11-03 0.356506 0.849978
2016-08-04 0.356506 1.011633
2016-05-05 0.356506 0.934361
2016-02-03 0.334225 0.893922
2015-11-04 0.334225 0.742722
2015-08-05 0.334225 0.675555
2015-05-07 0.334225 0.720185
2015-02-04 0.311943 0.717654
2014-11-05 0.311943 0.642910
2014-08-06 0.311943 0.681863
2014-05-07 0.311943 0.698603
2014-02-04 0.245098 0.575555
2013-11-06 0.245098 0.573394
2013-08-07 0.245098 0.555555
2013-05-07 0.245098 0.674350
2013-02-04 0.164884 0.496911
2012-11-07 0.659537 2.270637
2011-11-07 0.659537 2.186763
2010-11-05 0.659537 1.757721
2009-11-05 0.659537 2.188703
2008-11-06 0.659537 2.295287
2007-11-02 0.659537 1.156431
2006-11-02 0.525847 1.033276
2005-11-03 0.463458 1.041875
2004-11-03 0.409982 1.202299
2003-11-05 0.204991 0.740264
2002-11-06 0.187166 0.788585
2001-11-02 0.178253 0.737463
2000-11-03 0.178253 0.758293
Additional Data
dividendRate 2.37
dividendYield 2.46
exDividendDate 2026-08-04
trailingAnnualDividendRate 2.295
trailingAnnualDividendYield 0.023844156
lastDividendValue 0.593
lastDividendDate 2026-08-04
dividendDate 2026-09-08

Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change 0.1979891
Address1 200 Park Avenue
All Time High 100.93
All Time Low 10.13369
Ask 96.67
Ask Size 100
Audit Risk 4
Average Analyst Rating 1.9 - Buy
Average Daily Volume10 Day 2,938,810
Average Daily Volume3 Month 3,673,431
Average Volume 3,673,431
Average Volume10Days 2,938,810
Beta 0.763
Bid 96.63
Bid Size 300
Board Risk 3
Book Value 43.028
City New York
Compensation As Of Epoch Date 1,767,139,200
Compensation Risk 1
Country United States
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 96.51
Current Ratio 2.027
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,786,665,600
Day High 97.44
Day Low 96.41
Debt To Equity 179.933
Display Name MetLife
Dividend Date 1,788,825,600
Dividend Rate 2.37
Dividend Yield 2.46
Earnings Call Timestamp End 1,786,021,200
Earnings Call Timestamp Start 1,786,021,200
Earnings Growth 0.058
Earnings Quarterly Growth 0.01
Earnings Timestamp 1,785,960,000
Earnings Timestamp End 1,794,254,400
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,794,254,400
Ebitda 6,040,000,000
Ebitda Margins 0.076069996
Enterprise To Ebitda 14.047
Enterprise To Revenue 1.069
Enterprise Value 84,843,880,448
Eps Current Year 9.82559
Eps Forward 10.91614
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 5.23
Esg Populated 0
Ex Dividend Date 1,785,801,600
Exchange NYQ
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 93.2866
Fifty Day Average Change 3.223404
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.034553774
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 19.79891
Fifty Two Week High 100.93
Fifty Two Week High Change -4.419998
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.04379271
Fifty Two Week Low 67.33
Fifty Two Week Low Change 29.18
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.4333878
Fifty Two Week Range 67.33 - 100.93
Financial Currency USD
First Trade Date Milliseconds 954,941,400,000
Five Year Avg Dividend Yield 2.93
Float Shares 531,315,904
Forward Eps 10.91614
Forward P E 8.841038
Free Cashflow -20,953,999,360
Full Exchange Name NYSE
Full Time Employees 46,000
Fullday Change 0.260002
Fullday Change Percent 0.270132
Fullday Price 97.91
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Governance Epoch Date 1,785,542,400
Gross Margins 0.23951
Gross Profits 19,017,000,960
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.16352
Held Percent Institutions 0.78616
Implied Shares Outstanding 635,476,927
Industry Insurance - Life
Industry Disp Insurance - Life
Industry Key insurance-life
Ir Website http://investor.metlife.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=121171&p=irol-irhome
Is Earnings Date Estimate 0
Language en-US
Last Dividend Date 1,785,801,600
Last Dividend Value 0.593
Last Fiscal Year End 1,767,139,200
Last Split Date 1,502,064,000
Last Split Factor 1,122:1000
Long Business Summary MetLife, Inc., a financial services company, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management services worldwide. It operates in six segments: Group Benefits; Retirement and Income Solutions; Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and MetLife Holdings. The company offers life, dental, group short-and long-term disability, paid family and medical leave, individual disability, accidental death and dismemberment, accident and health, vision, and pet insurance, as well as prepaid legal plans; administrative services-only arrangements to employers; and general and separate account, and synthetic guaranteed interest contracts, as well as private floating rate funding agreements. It also provides pension risk transfers, institutional income annuities, structured settlements, and capital markets investment products; and other products and services, such as life insurance products and funding agreements for funding postretirement benefits, as well as company, bank, or trust-owned life insurance used to finance nonqualified benefit programs for executives. In addition, it offers fixed, indexed-linked, and variable annuities; pension products; regular savings products; whole and term life, endowments, universal and variable life, and group life products; longevity and funded reinsurance solutions; credit insurance products; accident & health products covering hospitalization, cancer, critical illness, income protection, and scheduled medical reimbursement plans; and protection against long-term health care services. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in New York, New York.
Long Name MetLife, Inc.
Market us_market
Market Cap 61,329,879,040
Market State CLOSED
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_185648
Most Recent Quarter 1,782,777,600
Net Income To Common 3,440,999,936
Next Fiscal Year End 1,798,675,200
Non Diluted Market Cap 61,164,654,223
Number Of Analyst Opinions 16
Open 96.79
Operating Cashflow 15,557,999,616
Operating Margins 0.055180002
Overall Risk 4
Payout Ratio 0.4397
Peg Ratio 0.53
Phone 212 578 9500
Post Market Change 1.4000015
Post Market Change Percent 1.4506284
Post Market Price 97.91
Post Market Time 1,787,960,988
Previous Close 96.25
Price Eps Current Year 9.822311
Price Hint 2
Price To Book 2.242958
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 0.772436
Profit Margins 0.04567
Quick Ratio 1.705
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key buy
Recommendation Mean 1.94444
Region US
Regular Market Change 0.260002
Regular Market Change Percent 0.270132
Regular Market Day High 97.44
Regular Market Day Low 96.41
Regular Market Day Range 96.41 - 97.44
Regular Market Open 96.79
Regular Market Previous Close 96.25
Regular Market Price 96.51
Regular Market Time 1,787,947,202
Regular Market Volume 2,878,195
Return On Assets 0.00451
Return On Equity 0.13094
Revenue Growth 0.105
Revenue Per Share 121.348
Sand P52 Week Change 0.20204377
Sector Financial Services
Sector Disp Financial Services
Sector Key financial-services
Share Holder Rights Risk 9
Shares Outstanding 635,476,927
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.0178
Shares Short 11,308,929
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,784,073,600
Shares Short Prior Month 12,774,912
Short Name MetLife, Inc.
Short Percent Of Float 0.0178
Short Ratio 2.9
Source Interval 15
State NY
Symbol MET
Target High Price 119.0
Target Low Price 84.0
Target Mean Price 105.0625
Target Median Price 107.0
Total Cash 27,317,000,192
Total Cash Per Share 42.987
Total Debt 50,311,000,064
Total Revenue 79,398,002,688
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 2.295
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.023844156
Trailing Eps 5.23
Trailing P E 18.453156
Trailing Peg Ratio 0.5356
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 81.49495
Two Hundred Day Average Change 15.015053
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.1842452
Type Disp Equity
Volume 2,878,195
Website https://www.metlife.com
Zip 10,166-0188