How to buy MetLife stock in Canada

MetLife is an insurance - life business based in the US. MetLife shares (MET) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

Its last market close was $81.70 – a decrease of 2.65% over the previous week. MetLife employs 45,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $71.3 billion.

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MetLife stock price (NYSE: MET)

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MetLife stocks at a glance

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Information last updated 2025-02-12.

Latest market close	$81.70
52-week range	$65.86 - $88.48
50-day moving average more info button	$83.89
200-day moving average more info button	$77.97
Wall St. target price	$95.29
PE ratio more info button	13.4959
Dividend yield more info button	$0 (2.56%)
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$6.13

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MetLife price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $82.34 from 2025-02-13

1 week (2025-02-07)	-1.88%
1 month (2025-01-15)	-3.05%
3 months (2024-11-15)	-1.19%
6 months (2024-08-15)	14.79%

1 year (2024-02-15)	18.41%
2 years (2023-02-15)	21.16%
3 years (2022-02-15)	26.28%
5 years (2020-02-14)	86.80%

Is MetLife stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing MetLife stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of MetLife's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

MetLife's P/E ratio

MetLife's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 13x. In other words, MetLife shares trade at around 13x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the stock or simply that they're under-valued.

MetLife's PEG ratio

MetLife's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.1468. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer worse value.

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

MetLife's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $7 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a MetLife's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

MetLife financials

Revenue TTM	$71.3 billion
Operating margin TTM	15.09%
Gross profit TTM	$18.2 billion
Return on assets TTM	0.58%
Return on equity TTM	13.26%
Profit margin	5.27%
Book value	$44.53
Market Capitalization more info button	$57 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

MetLife stock dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 27.06% of net profits

Recently MetLife has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), MetLife shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In MetLife's case, that would currently equate to about $0 per share.

While MetLife's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that MetLife may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

MetLife's most recent dividend payout was on 10 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their stocks by 3 February 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have MetLife's stocks ever split?

MetLife's stocks 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 stocks – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 10.9% lower stock price could have impacted the market appetite for MetLife stocks, which in turn could have impacted MetLife's stock price.

MetLife stock price volatility

Over the last 12 months, MetLife's stocks have ranged in value from as little as $65.8615 up to $88.4771. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta."

Beta is a measure of a stocks volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while MetLife's is 1.039. This would suggest that MetLife's stocks 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).

MetLife overview

MetLife, Inc., a financial services company, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management services worldwide. It operates through six segments: Retirement and Income Solutions; Group Benefits; Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and MetLife Holdings. The company offers life, dental, group short-and long-term disability, individual disability, pet insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, vision, and accident and health coverages, 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 provides 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 reinsurance solutions; credit insurance products; and protection against long-term health care services. MetLife, Inc.

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Frequently asked questions

What percentage of MetLife is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 16.416% of MetLife stocks are held by insiders and 76.556% by institutions. How many people work for MetLife?
Latest data suggests 45,000 work at MetLife. When does the fiscal year end for MetLife?
MetLife's fiscal year ends in December. Where is MetLife based?
MetLife's address is: 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States, 10166-0188 What is MetLife's ISIN number?
MetLife's international securities identification number is: US59156R1086 What is MetLife's CUSIP number?
MetLife's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 59156R116

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