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MET Dividend History & Description — MetLife Inc

MetLife, Inc. is a financial services company. Co. is engaged in providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management for individual and institutional customers. Co. operates through six segments: Group Benefits; Retirement and Income Solutions (RIS); Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and MetLife Holdings. Its Group Benefits segment offers life insurance, dental, group short- and long-term disability, individual disability, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, vision, and accident and health insurance, as well as prepaid legal plans and pet insurance.

Preferreds: MET.PRA, MET.PRB, MET.PRE, MET.PRF

When considering the MetLife Inc stock dividend history, we have taken known splits into account, such that the MET dividend history is presented on a split-adjusted ("apples to apples") basis. MetLife Inc dividend history is presented both in graphical/chart form, and as a MET dividend history data table along the right-hand column.
Name: 
MetLife Inc
Stock buyback: 
MET buyback
Website: 
www.metlife.com
Sector: 
Life & Health Insurance
Number of ETFs Holding MET: 
240 (see which ones)
Total Market Value Held by ETFs: 
$7,032,650,836.54
Total Market Capitalization: 
$54,288,000,000
% of Market Cap. Held by ETFs: 
12.95%

MET Stock Dividend History

The MET dividend history graphic shown above is presented after taking into consideration any known stock split occurrences, in order to present the most directly comparable MET historical dividend comparison possible. Historical dividends, when charted graphically, can reveal the long-term variability and/or growth within the MET dividend history record. Also see the MET stock dividend history data table along the right-hand column below.

MET Dividend History FAQ

What is the MET dividend history?
I am following MetLife Inc, under stock symbol MET, and I would like to know what their dividend history looks like?

Accepted answer: In our Dividend Channel database, the first MET dividend we cover in our data set is from 11/03/2000, and the latest dividend is from 05/06/2025, those being the historical ex-dividend dates. MetLife Inc is showing 63 total dividends in the MET dividend history we have available. The last dividend to have gone ex-div was in the amount of 0.57 per share.

  Suggested answer: Are you looking to know how many historical dividends MetLife Inc has had? If so, our database shows 63 historical dividends with the earliest in our data set being from 11/03/2000.

  Suggested answer: The MetLife Inc dividend history is 63 entries long in the Dividend Channel database which goes back to 11/03/2000.


What is the MET historical dividend amount?
For the most recent dividend to have passed its ex-dividend date for MET, what is the amount per share and when did it go ex-div?

Accepted answer: The per-share amount for the most recenty historical dividend, i.e. the most recent dividend that has already passed its ex-dividend date, is 0.57 per share, having gone ex-dividend on 05/06/2025
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Buy (3.47 out of 4)
55th percentile
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