MetLife Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for MetLife in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 12 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" MetLife stock.
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MetLife is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 4th 2021.
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MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) released its earnings results on Wednesday, May, 5th. The financial services provider reported $2.20 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.48 by $0.72. The financial services provider had revenue of $16.71 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $15.88 billion. MetLife had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.17% and a net margin of 8.82%. The firm's revenue was up 7.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.58 earnings per share.
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MetLife's stock was trading at $33.30 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, MET shares have increased by 90.5% and is now trading at $63.42.
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MetLife announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, April 27th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, May 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.48 per share on Monday, June 14th. This represents a $1.92 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.03%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, May 10th. This is an increase from MetLife's previous quarterly dividend of $0.46.
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MetLife pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.97%. MetLife has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of MetLife is 31.42%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MetLife will have a dividend payout ratio of 30.24% next year. This indicates that MetLife will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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MetLife declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback program on Friday, December 11th 2020, which permits the company to repurchase $3,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to purchase up to 7.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for MetLife's stock. Their forecasts range from $45.00 to $74.00. On average, they anticipate MetLife's share price to reach $61.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.8%.
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308 employees have rated MetLife CEO Michel Khalaf on Glassdoor.com. Michel Khalaf has an approval rating of 89% among MetLife's employees.

Some companies that are related to MetLife include Prudential Financial (PRU), Aflac (AFL), Lincoln National (LNC), Primerica (PRI), Unum Group (UNM), CNO Financial Group (CNO), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), FBL Financial Group (FFG), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Independence (IHC), Kansas City Life Insurance (KCLI) and Citizens (CIA).
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MetLife trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MET."

MetLife's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.44%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.33%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.21%), Northern Trust Corp (1.01%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (0.59%) and Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. (0.54%). Company insiders that own MetLife stock include Catherine R Kinney, John D Mccallion, Marlene Debel and Steven J Goulart.
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MET stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Prudential Financial Inc., Cibc World Markets Corp, Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., MUFG Securities EMEA plc, Russell Investments Group Ltd., and Panagora Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold MetLife company stock in the last year include Catherine R Kinney, John D Mccallion, and Marlene Debel.
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MET stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alberta Investment Management Corp, BlackRock Inc., Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Alliancebernstein L.P., Geode Capital Management LLC, Ergoteles LLC, Artemis Investment Management LLP, and Sei Investments Co..
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Shares of MET can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of MET stock can currently be purchased for approximately $63.42.

MetLife has a market capitalization of $55.52 billion and generates $69.62 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $5.90 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.11 on an earnings per share basis.

MetLife employs 49,000 workers across the globe.

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MetLife was founded in 1868.

The official website for MetLife is www.metlife.com.

MetLife is headquartered at 200 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY, 10166.

MetLife's mailing address is 200 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY, 10166. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 212-578-9500.