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.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

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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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.

Company name Metlife Inc
Stock ticker MET
Live stock price [stckqut]MET[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $42.85
Target stock price (averages with growth) $37.91
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $20.32
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $56.9

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=met
MetLife, Inc. (MetLife) is a provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management. The Company’s segments include Retail; Group, Voluntary & Worksite Benefits; Corporate Benefit Funding; Latin America (collectively, the Americas); Asia, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Its Retail segment is organized into two businesses: Life & Other, and Annuities. Its Group, Voluntary & Worksite Benefits insurance products and services include life, dental, group short- and long-term disability, property and casualty, long-term care, accidental death and dismemberment, critical illness, vision, and accident and health coverages, as well as prepaid legal plans. Its Corporate Benefit Funding segment provides funding and financing solutions that help institutional customers manage liabilities primarily associated with their qualified, nonqualified and welfare employee benefit programs using a spectrum of life and annuity-based insurance and investment products.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Metlife Inc as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of Metlife Inc calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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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: $40.39
  • Growth: 0.17
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.8
  • P/E: 11
  • Future EPS Calc: $8.33
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $91.64
  • Target stock price: $56.9

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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.

Company name Metlife Inc
Stock ticker MET
Live stock price [stckqut]MET[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $88.61
Target stock price (averages with growth) $72.39
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $33.39
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $88.51

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=met

MetLife, Inc. (MetLife) is a provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management. The Company’s segments include Retail; Group, Voluntary & Worksite Benefits, and Corporate Benefit Funding. Its three geographic segments are Latin America (collectively, the Americas); Asia, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In addition, MetLife’s Corporate & Other includes MetLife Home Loans LLC (MLHL), the surviving, non-bank entity of the merger of MetLife Bank, National Association (MetLife Bank) with and into MLHL, and other business activities. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, it operates in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The Company‘s businesses in the Americas offer a range of protection products and services.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Metlife Inc.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of Metlife Inc calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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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: $57.37
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.16
  • P/E: 9.3
  • Future EPS Calc: $15.32
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $142.55
  • Target stock price: $88.51

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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.

Company name Metlife Inc
Stock ticker MET
Live stock price [stckqut]MET[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $84.85
Target stock price (averages with growth) $69.44
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $32.04
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $67.18

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=met

MetLife, Inc. (MetLife) is a provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management. MetLife operates through six segments: Retail; Group, Voluntary & Worksite Benefits; Corporate Benefit Funding; and Latin America (collectively, the Americas); Asia; and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Retail segment is engaged in selling a range of annuities and other insurance products. The Group, Voluntary & Worksite Benefits segment is engaged in insurance protection products and services to individuals and corporations, as well as other institutions and their respective employees. The Corporate Benefit Funding segment provides a range of annuity and investment products for corporates. The Company is involved in providing insurance products to individuals and institutions in the Latin American, Asia and EMEA markets. It also owns the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C., which is located in the West End of the capital next to historic Georgetown.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Metlife Inc.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of Metlife Inc calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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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: $54.89
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.89
  • P/E: 11
  • Future EPS Calc: $9.83
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $108.19
  • Target stock price: $67.17

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