Metlife Inc ($MET) Confident Investor Rating: Poor
| Company name | Metlife Inc |
| Stock ticker | MET |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]MET[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Poor |
| EPS growth | Poor |
| P/E growth | Poor |
| EBIT growth | Poor |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Poor |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $8.57 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $10.24 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $11. |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $8.05 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: https://finance.google.com/finance?q=met
MetLife, Inc. is a provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management. The Company’s segments include U.S.; Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); MetLife Holdings, and Corporate & Other. Its U.S. segment is organized into Group Benefits, Retirement and Income Solutions and Property & Casualty businesses. Its Asia segment offers products, including life insurance; accident and health insurance, and retirement and savings products. Latin America offers products, including life insurance, and retirement and savings products. Life insurance includes universal, variable and term life products. EMEA offers products, including life insurance, accident and health insurance, retirement and savings products, and credit insurance.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Metlife Inc. I am removing the company from my Watch List.
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How was this analysis of Metlife Inc calculated?
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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:
- Stock price at the time of the calculation: $50.56
- Growth: 0.12
- Current EPS (TTM): $0.46
- P/E: 16
- Future EPS Calc: $0.81
- Future Stock Price Calc: $12.97
- Target stock price: $8.05
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