Financial Fitness Check: Examining Metlife Inc (MET)’s Key Ratios

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In the latest session, Metlife Inc (NYSE: MET) closed at $74.52 down -0.89% from its previous closing price of $75.19. In other words, the price has decreased by -$0.89 from its previous closing price. On the day, 2.66 million shares were traded. MET stock price reached its highest trading level at $75.78 during the session, while it also had its lowest trading level at $74.47.

Ratios:

For a deeper understanding of Metlife Inc’s stock, let’s take a closer look at its various ratios. In the meantime, Its Debt-to-Equity ratio is 0.70 whereas as Long-Term Debt/Eq ratio is at 0.69.

On October 05, 2023, Deutsche Bank started tracking the stock assigning a Hold rating and target price of $71.Deutsche Bank initiated its Hold rating on October 05, 2023, with a $71 target price.

Insider Transactions:

Additionally, insider trades can be beneficial to investors who want to learn what the management thinks about stock prices in the future. A recent insider transaction in this stock occurred on Mar 18 ’24 when PAPPAS BILL sold 27,000 shares for $72.27 per share. The transaction valued at 1,951,325 led to the insider holds 57,768 shares of the business.

TADROS RAMY sold 4,026 shares of MET for $289,479 on Mar 13 ’24. The President, U.S. Business now owns 146,981 shares after completing the transaction at $71.90 per share. On Feb 05 ’24, another insider, Khalaf Michel, who serves as the President & CEO of the company, sold 20,460 shares for $65.95 each. As a result, the insider received 1,349,329 and left with 385,987 shares of the company.

Valuation Measures:

Investors should consider key stock statistics when deciding whether to invest or divest. In the wake of the recent closing price, MET now has a Market Capitalization of 52992884736 and an Enterprise Value of 65752915968. As of this moment, Metlife’s Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio for their current fiscal year is 25.61, and their Forward P/E ratio for the next fiscal year is 7.67. For the stock, the TTM Price-to-Sale (P/S) ratio is 0.78 while its Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio in mrq is 1.87. Its current Enterprise Value per Revenue stands at 0.973 whereas that against EBITDA is 13.937.

Stock Price History:

The Beta on a monthly basis for MET is 1.05, which has changed by 0.19576383 over the last 52 weeks, in comparison to a change of 0.19608545 over the same period for the S&P500. Over the past 52 weeks, MET has reached a high of $76.90, while it has fallen to a 52-week low of $57.91. The 50-Day Moving Average of the stock is 3.94%, while the 200-Day Moving Average is calculated to be 9.00%.

Shares Statistics:

For the past three months, MET has traded an average of 3.08M shares per day and 2753440 over the past ten days. A total of 730.82M shares are outstanding, with a floating share count of 594.32M. Insiders hold about 16.42% of the company’s shares, while institutions hold 76.55% stake in the company. Shares short for MET as of 1719532800 were 8579434 with a Short Ratio of 2.79, compared to 1717113600 on 8745822. Therefore, it implies a Short% of Shares Outstanding of 8579434 and a Short% of Float of 1.45000005.

Dividends & Splits

According to the company, the forward annual dividend rate for MET is 2.10, from 2.08 in the trailing year. Against a Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of 0.027663251The stock’s 5-year Average Dividend Yield is 3.42. The current Payout Ratio is 113.79% for MET, which recently paid a dividend on 2024-05-06 with an ex-dividend date of 1722902400. Stock splits for the company last occurred on 2017-08-07 when the company split stock in a 1122:1000 ratio.

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