After Credit Suisse and Wells Fargo gave Metlife (NYSE: MET) a Buy rating last month, the company received another Buy, this time from Morgan Stanley. Analyst Nigel Dally maintained a Buy rating on Metlife today and set a price target of $40.00. The company’s shares closed last Thursday at $35.02.
According to TipRanks.com, Dally is a 4-star analyst with an average return of 4.5% and a 52.6% success rate. Dally covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as Brighthouse Financial, Ameriprise Financial, and Prudential Financial.
Metlife has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $42.63, which is a 27.5% upside from current levels. In a report issued on April 26, Credit Suisse also reiterated a Buy rating on the stock with a $46.00 price target.
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Metlife’s market cap is currently $29.97B and has a P/E ratio of 5.60. The company has a Price to Book ratio of 0.55.
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MetLife, Inc. provides insurance and financial services to individual and institutional customers. It offers life insurance, annuities, automobile and homeowner’s insurance and retail banking services to individuals as well as group insurance, reinsurance and retirement and savings products and services. The company operates through the following segments: U.S., Asia, Latin America, EMEA, MetLife Holdings and Corporate & Other. The U.S. segment offers a broad range of protection products and services aimed at serving the financial needs of customers throughout their lives. The U.S. segment is organized into three businesses: Group Benefits, Retirement and Income Solutions and Property & Casualty. The Asia segment offers a broad range of products to individuals and corporations, as well as other institutions and their respective employees, which include whole life, term life, variable life, universal life, accident & health insurance, fixed and variable annuities and endowment products. The Latin America segment offers a broad range of products to individuals and corporations, as well as other institutions and their respective employees, which include life insurance, accident & health insurance, credit insurance and retirement and savings products. The EMEA segment offers a broad range of products to individuals and corporations, as well as other institutions and their respective employees, which include life insurance, accident & health insurance, credit insurance and retirement and savings products. The MetLife Holdings segment consists of operations relating to products and businesses, such as variable, universal, term and whole life insurance, variable, fixed and index-linked annuities, long-term care insurance, as well as the assumed variable annuity guarantees. The Corporate & Other segment contains the excess capital, as well as certain charges and activities, not allocated to the segments. Metlife was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in New York, NY.
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