profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
MetLife
$101.87-1.04% today
+27.0% in 1 year
1-year low $67.701-year high $103.57
Trading close to its highest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2020 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $18.95 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
Not measured for banks and insurers: deposits and policy reserves count as debt, so the usual debt test says nothing about them.
Money in, money out
What MetLife sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $67.4 billion in 2022 to $75.7 billion in 2025, with $3.38 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
MetLife handed back 33% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks $3.9B$1.7B
Free cash flow 2025$17.1B
Bought back its own shares$3.9B
Paid as dividends$1.7B
Cash vs. debt$22.0B vs. $20.2B
MetLife vs. similar companies
MetLife grows in the middle of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| MetLife | 18.9× · Fair price | ||
 China Life Insurance | 6.3× · Cheap | ||
 Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China | 7.2× · Cheap | ||
 AIA Group | 16.7× · Fair price | ||
 Manulife Financial | 17.9× · Fair price |
Compare MetLife with i BBCA ID SDR 1to2 · Mastercard · Moody's · Prudential Financial · Reinsurance Group of America · S&P Global · Visa
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads MetLife's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67,842 | 68,696 | 67,409 | 67,934 | 70,131 | 75,654 | |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | 5,978 | 5,723 | 5,996 | 6,137 | |
| – | – | 7,975 | 3,925 | 7,373 | 6,475 | |
| 5,407 | 6,855 | 5,284 | 1,578 | 4,426 | 3,379 | |
| 5.68 | 7.65 | 2.91 | 1.81 | 6.13 | 4.84 | |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | 8.9% | 8.4% | 8.5% | 8.1% | |
| 8.0% | 10.0% | 7.8% | 2.3% | 6.3% | 4.5% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 795,146 | 759,708 | 663,072 | 687,584 | 677,457 | 745,166 |
| Cash | 19,795 | 20,047 | 20,195 | 20,639 | 20,068 | 22,032 |
| Total debt | – | – | 17,980 | 18,828 | 18,715 | 20,183 |
| Total liabilities | 720,329 | 691,959 | 632,947 | 657,331 | 649,754 | 716,245 |
| 74,558 | 67,482 | 29,881 | 30,015 | 27,445 | 28,398 | |
| 913 | 869 | 809 | 762 | 689 | 655 | |
| – | – | 12.1% | 5.2% | 11.4% | 9.3% | |
| 7.3% | 10.2% | 17.7% | 5.3% | 16.1% | 11.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,639 | 12,347 | 13,044 | 13,721 | 14,598 | 17,092 | |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | 13,044 | 13,721 | 14,598 | 17,092 | |
| Dividends paid | – | – | 1,783 | 1,764 | 1,727 | 1,703 |
| 1,151 | 4,303 | 3,326 | 3,103 | 3,207 | 3,883 | |
| 127 | 173 | 184 | 171 | 168 | 131 |
This is a bank or insurer, so cash-flow and debt ratios are left out: borrowing and lending is the business itself. Price to book and return on equity are the measures that matter here.
Valuation
- 18.9×
- 10.4×
- –
- 2.3×
- 0.8×
- 5.3%
- 2.9%
Profitability
- 4.5%
- 9.5%
- 9.7%
- 12.9%
- 0.5%
Growth
- +2.2%
- −3.1%
- +4.3%
- −6.8%
How it ranks in Financial Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 26%of 851
Bottom 23%of 734
Bottom 29%of 863
Bottom 27%of 860
Top 7%of 921
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $96.50
- Range
- $90.00 – $102.00
- 6 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 | 2.42 | 2.27 | +6.6% |
| Feb 4, 2026 | 2.58 | 2.34 | +10.3% |
| Nov 5, 2025 | 2.34 | 2.31 | +1.3% |
| Aug 6, 2025 | 2.02 | 2.15 | −6.0% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 1.96 | 2.00 | −2.0% |
| Feb 5, 2025 | 2.08 | 2.11 | −1.4% |
| Oct 30, 2024 | 1.95 | 2.17 | −10.1% |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 2.28 | 2.10 | +8.6% |
2.9%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$29a year at today's yield, before tax
+4.3%2020 to 2025
Raised10 yearsin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$1.31 in 2015 → $2.25 in 2025
How safe it looks
50.4% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 10.0%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
1/7Passes 1 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
51No pass
Benjamin Graham
61Pass
Philip Fisher
42No pass
Peter Lynch
20No pass
Joel Greenblatt
41No pass
Charlie Munger
41No pass
Terry Smith
34No pass
Questions about MetLife
Is MetLife a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 1 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the MetLife AI analysis
What does MetLife do?
MetLife, Inc., a financial services company, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management services worldwide. It is in Insurance - Life, based in New York, NY, United States, with 46,000 employees.
Does MetLife pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.9% a year, about 50% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $1.70 billion in dividends.
Is MetLife stock halal?
No. MetLife does not pass our halal screen: its main business, conventional insurance, is not permitted. How we check
How has MetLife stock done over the past year?
Up 27.0% over the past twelve months, to $101.87. It traded between $67.70 and $103.57, close to its high.
Who are MetLife's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are China Life Insurance, Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, AIA Group and Manulife Financial. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with MetLife's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 12, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.