Metlife Inc (MET) is expecting 2.52% growth in the next quarter: What can investors do to maximize their returns?

Metlife Inc (NYSE: MET) kicked off on Tuesday, down -1.80% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $82.74. Over the past 52 weeks, MET has traded in a range of $64.61-$89.05.

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Financial Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -0.28% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 14.12%. With a float of $578.59 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $693.65 million.

The firm has a total of 45000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 100.0%, operating margin of 7.42%, and the pretax margin is 7.26%.

Metlife Inc (MET) Insider Activity

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Insurance – Life Industry. The insider ownership of Metlife Inc is 16.44%, while institutional ownership is 75.02%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 13 ’24, was worth 1,890,577. In this transaction EVP & Chief Risk Officer of this company sold 22,810 shares at a rate of $82.88, taking the stock ownership to the 108,507 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 13 ’24, when Company’s President & CEO sold 20,926 for $82.84, making the entire transaction worth $1,733,604. This insider now owns 500,799 shares in total.

Metlife Inc (MET) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 14.12% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 13.14% during the next five years compared to -18.10% drop over the previous five years of trading.

Metlife Inc (NYSE: MET) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at Metlife Inc’s (MET) current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.79. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 3.58.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.96, a number that is poised to hit 2.21 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.70 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Metlife Inc (MET)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Metlife Inc, MET], we can find that recorded value of 4.39 million was better than the volume posted last year of 3.33 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 34.30%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.82.

During the past 100 days, Metlife Inc’s (MET) raw stochastic average was set at 64.14%, which indicates a significant increase from 14.10% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 24.16% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 26.79% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $83.62, while its 200-day Moving Average is $75.87. Now, the first resistance to watch is $82.03. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $82.81. The third major resistance level sits at $83.38. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $80.68, it is likely to go to the next support level at $80.12. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $79.34.

Metlife Inc (NYSE: MET) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 56.26 billion has total of 692,420K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 66,905 M in contrast with the sum of 1,578 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 18,440 M and last quarter income was 1,342 M.