MET Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Metlife | NYSE:MET)

MetLife is one of the largest life insurers in the us by assets and provides a variety of insurance and financial-services products. It is organized into five segments: us, Asia, Latin America, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and MetLife Holdings. The us business contributes around 50% of earnings and is broken into the group benefits segment and the retirement solutions segment. The Asia segment contributes around 22% of earnings and is mainly composed of the Japan business, with increasing contributions from India, China, and Bangladesh. The company also holds leading market positions in Mexico and Chile, with the Latin America segment contributing around 13% of earnings. The EMEA and MetLife Holdings segments contribute around 4% and 11% of earnings, respectively.

Metlife trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MET.

As of March 5, 2025, MET stock price climbed to $83.15 with 1,342,766 million shares trading.

MET has a beta of 0.79, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MET has a correlation of 0.20 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MET has a market cap of $56.64 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Metlife reported $20 billion in Revenue and $2.09 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $248 million and met earnings estimates .

In the last 3 years, MET traded as high as $89.05 and as low as $48.95.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MET belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, SPY, IVV, VTV.

MET has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +22.1% while the SPY ETF gained +15.2%. MET has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -2.0% and +0.9%, respectively, while the SPY returned -3.7% and -4.7%, respectively.

MET support price is $80.34 and resistance is $82.78 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MET shares will trade within this expected range on the day.