MetLife, Inc.

MET Financial Insurance Life

MetLife, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $77.1 billion, up 8.59% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+18.2%
EPS
+200.8%
Free cash flow
+1.87%
Total debt
−28.1%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

99.79 3.10 −3.01%
Market cap
$63.4B
P/E
13.0×
Fwd P/E
12.7×
Dividend yield
2.35%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

MetLife, Inc. (MET) Return on invested capital

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MetLife, Inc.'s return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 24.1%, up 12.9 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (11.2%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 3.32% (fiscal 2017) to 13.9% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 82% of that period. That is above the Insurance Life industry median of 7.11% and above the Financial sector median of 4.70%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 11.2% (1.89)
FY2024 13.1% 8.45
FY2023 4.65% (9.24)
FY2022 13.9% 5.81
FY2021 8.08% 2.23
FY2020 5.85% (0.43)
FY2019 6.28% (0.96)
FY2018 7.24% 3.92
FY2017 3.32% (0.19)
FY2016 3.51% (0.84)

Against its own ten years

Low 3.32% High 13.9%
Ten-year median 6.28%
Current reading's percentile 82

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
PRI Primerica, Inc. compare 17.5%
MET MetLife, Inc. 10.7%
PRU Prudential Financial, Inc. compare 10.4%
AFL Aflac Incorporated compare 8.24%
JXN Jackson Financial Inc. compare 5.59%
UNM Unum Group compare 1.32%
GL Globe Life Inc. compare 0.00%
LNC Lincoln National Corporation compare 0.00%
PUK Prudential Public Limited Company compare 0.00%
Insurance Life industry median 7.11%
Financial sector median 4.70%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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