Life Insurance
MetLife, Inc., a financial services company, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management services worldwide. It operates through five segments: U.S.; Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and MetLife Holdings. The company offers life, dental, group short-and long-term disability, individual disability, pet insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, vision, and accident and health coverages, as well as prepaid legal plans; administrative services-only arrangements to employers; and general and separate account, and synthetic guaranteed interest contracts, as well as private floating rate funding agreements. It also provides pension risk transfers, institutional income annuities, structured settlements, and capital markets investment products; and other products and services, such as life insurance products and funding agreements for funding postretirement benefits, as well as company, bank, or trust-owned life insurance used to finance nonqualified benefit programs for executives. In addition, it provides fixed, indexed-linked, and variable annuities; pension products; regular savings products; whole and term life, endowments, universal and variable life, and group life products; longevity reinsurance solutions; credit insurance products; and protection against long-term health care services. MetLife, Inc. was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.
Years | 12-2015 | 12-2016 | 12-2017 | 12-2018 | 12-2019 | 12-2020 | 12-2021 | 12-2022 | 12-2023 | TTM |
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Net Margin | 7.4% | 1.1% | 6.3% | 7.3% | 8.2% | 7.7% | 8.9% | 3.4% | 2.1% | 3.2% |
ROA | 0.85% | -0.022% | 0.49% | 0.92% | 0.92% | 0.87% | 1.1% | 0.43% | 0.31% | 0.44% |
ROE | 7.5% | 1% | 6.6% | 9.4% | 8.6% | 6.9% | 9.4% | 8.6% | 4.6% | 7.5% |
The average Net Margin over the past 5 years is +6.26%.
The trend of Net Margin over the past 5 years is -1.13%.
The average ROA over the past 5 years is +0.75%.
The trend of ROA over the past 5 years is -0.12%.
The average ROE over the past 5 years is +7.92%.
The trend of ROE over the past 5 years is -0.62%.
Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.
Years | 12-2015 | 12-2016 | 12-2017 | 12-2018 | 12-2019 | 12-2020 | 12-2021 | 12-2022 | 12-2023 | TTM |
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Debt FCF | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Debt Equity | 0.26 | 0.25 | 0.27 | 0.25 | 0.21 | 0.20 | 0.21 | 0.54 | 0.52 | 0.56 |
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Graham Stability | - | - | 97% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 41% | 30% | 30% |
The Debt/FCF trailing twelve month is -.
The trend of Debt/FCF over the past 5 years is -.
Graham’s Stability measure stands at 0.30.
Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.
Years | 12-2016 | 12-2018 | 12-2020 | 12-2022 | Trend |
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Revenue | 0.75% | -0.31% | -0.46% | -4.3% | 0.43% |
Net Income | 10% | -23% | -36% | -41% | -16% |
Stockholders Equity | -11% | -11% | -26% | 11% | -1.3% |
FCF | - | - | - | - | - |
The Revenue CAGR over the past 5 years is -0.31%.
The trend of Revenue growth rate over the past 5 years is +0.43%.
The Earnings CAGR over the past 5 years is -22.64%.
The trend of Earnings growth rate over the past 5 years is -15.69%.
The Equity CAGR over the past 5 years is -10.59%.
The trend of Equity growth rate over the past 5 years is -1.32%.
The FCF CAGR over the past 5 years is -.
The trend of FCF growth rate over the past 5 years is -.