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.
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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: $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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