MetLife Inc. (MET)
Financials · NYSE · US
Price as at 13 Aug 2026, 13:03 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
MetLife Inc. trades at $96.66, which is 106% below the $199.05 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 36 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 17.7 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
MET dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $1.75 | 3 |
| 2025 | $2.25 | 4 |
| 2024 | $2.15 | 4 |
| 2023 | $2.06 | 4 |
| 2022 | $1.98 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.90 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.82 | 4 |
| 2019 | $1.74 | 4 |
| 2018 | $1.66 | 4 |
| 2017 | $1.47 | 4 |
| 2016 | $1.40 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
MET earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 18 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About MetLife Inc.
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.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
MET passes 3 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
15 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Dodge & Cox, DODGE & COX$4.10B · 2.1% of book
- Richard Pzena, PZENA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC$941.79M · 2.8% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$491.48M · 0.2% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$348.79M · 0.1% of book
- Diamond Hill, Diamond Hill Capital Management, LLC (Investment Advisor)$94.60M · 0.8% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is MetLife Inc. (MET) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $199.05, MET at $96.66 is 106% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own MET?
15 of the institutions we track reported a position in MET in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is MET's P/E ratio?
MET trades at 17.7 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does MetLife Inc. (MET) pay a dividend?
Yes. MetLife Inc. yields 2.59% at the current share price. It has paid $2.32 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 26 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its MET data?
Fundamentals for MET come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYSE; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 13 Aug 2026, 13:03 UTC and is delayed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.