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MET vs. AFL, PRU, UNM, PRI, LNC, CNO, CIA, MFC, SLF, and PUK

Should you be buying MetLife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MetLife include Aflac (AFL), Prudential Financial (PRU), Unum Group (UNM), Primerica (PRI), Lincoln National (LNC), CNO Financial Group (CNO), Citizens (CIA), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), and Prudential (PUK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

MetLife vs.

Aflac (NYSE:AFL) and MetLife (NYSE:MET) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

67.4% of Aflac shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of MetLife shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Aflac shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of MetLife shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Aflac has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MetLife has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Aflac currently has a consensus price target of $104.57, suggesting a potential upside of 1.93%. MetLife has a consensus price target of $94.17, suggesting a potential upside of 21.98%. Given MetLife's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MetLife is more favorable than Aflac.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Aflac
2 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
MetLife
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.92

Aflac has a net margin of 28.76% compared to MetLife's net margin of 6.19%. MetLife's return on equity of 20.42% beat Aflac's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Aflac28.76% 16.20% 3.32%
MetLife 6.19%20.42%0.86%

Aflac pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Aflac pays out 36.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MetLife pays out 36.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Aflac has increased its dividend for 44 consecutive years and MetLife has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years.

MetLife received 388 more outperform votes than Aflac when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.04% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 55.57% of users gave Aflac an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AflacOutperform Votes
579
55.57%
Underperform Votes
463
44.43%
MetLifeOutperform Votes
967
74.04%
Underperform Votes
339
25.96%

Aflac has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MetLife. MetLife is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aflac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Aflac$17.14B3.24$5.44B$6.4016.03
MetLife$72.28B0.72$4.43B$6.1512.55

In the previous week, MetLife had 30 more articles in the media than Aflac. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for MetLife and 28 mentions for Aflac. Aflac's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat MetLife's score of 0.69 indicating that Aflac is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Aflac
21 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
MetLife
28 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
24 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

MetLife beats Aflac on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MET vs. The Competition

MetricMetLifeLife insurance IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$51.82B$21.87B$11.48B$19.27B
Dividend Yield2.82%3.18%5.45%3.83%
P/E Ratio12.938.1922.2434.37
Price / Sales0.721.2927.3534.89
Price / Cash12.319.7017.6217.52
Price / Book1.931.392.774.69
Net Income$4.43B$1.64B$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-4.46%-2.15%-1.42%-2.43%
1 Month Performance3.95%5.34%4.34%6.24%
1 Year Performance7.75%11.30%538.51%5.82%

MetLife Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MET
MetLife
4.9415 of 5 stars
$77.20
-0.6%
$94.17
+22.0%
+6.5%$51.82B$72.28B12.9345,000Trending News
Gap Down
AFL
Aflac
4.7422 of 5 stars
$106.42
-0.4%
$104.57
-1.7%
+16.8%$57.54B$17.14B11.0912,400Positive News
Insider Trade
PRU
Prudential Financial
4.8661 of 5 stars
$107.78
+0.4%
$121.08
+12.3%
-14.4%$38.15B$60.62B14.4339,900Positive News
Ex-Dividend
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
UNM
Unum Group
4.9255 of 5 stars
$82.19
+0.0%
$88.43
+7.6%
+50.3%$14.33B$12.84B8.6810,900Positive News
Analyst Forecast
PRI
Primerica
4.2807 of 5 stars
$280.40
+0.5%
$308.00
+9.8%
+16.7%$9.28B$3.16B20.393,440Positive News
LNC
Lincoln National
4.9704 of 5 stars
$34.23
-0.6%
$36.82
+7.6%
+2.5%$5.84B$18.59B1.8610,800Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Gap Down
CNO
CNO Financial Group
4.51 of 5 stars
$38.77
+0.3%
$41.00
+5.8%
+30.8%$3.84B$4.30B10.373,350Positive News
CIA
Citizens
0.9704 of 5 stars
$3.96
-1.0%
N/A+32.6%$197.63M$242.94M9.21220Analyst Downgrade
MFC
Manulife Financial
4.7711 of 5 stars
$32.07
+0.2%
$45.50
+41.9%
+17.8%$54.93B$44.71B15.4940,000Positive News
SLF
Sun Life Financial
4.8479 of 5 stars
$63.19
+0.4%
$88.00
+39.3%
+24.3%$35.69B$33.02B16.4629,200Positive News
PUK
Prudential
3.4342 of 5 stars
$23.21
+0.3%
N/A+12.9%$30.32B$8.14B10.0014,500Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
Gap Down

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This page (NYSE:MET) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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