Metlife Preferred Stock Preferred Stock Debt To Equity

MET-PF Preferred Stock  USD 21.17  0.13  0.62%   
MetLife Preferred Stock fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to MetLife Preferred's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of MetLife Preferred Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure MetLife Preferred's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to MetLife Preferred preferred stock.
  
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MetLife Preferred Stock Company Debt To Equity Analysis

MetLife Preferred's Debt to Equity is calculated by dividing the Total Debt of a company by its Equity. If the debt exceeds equity of a company, then the creditors have more stakes in a firm than the stockholders. In other words, Debt to Equity ratio provides analysts with insights about composition of both equity and debt, and its influence on the valuation of the company.

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Current MetLife Preferred Debt To Equity

    
  1.52 %  
Most of MetLife Preferred's fundamental indicators, such as Debt To Equity, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, MetLife Preferred Stock is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
High Debt to Equity ratio typically indicates that a firm has been borrowing aggressively to finance its growth and as a result may experience a burden of additional interest expense. This may reduce earnings or future growth. On the other hand a small D/E ratio may indicate that a company is not taking enough advantage from financial leverage. Debt to Equity ratio measures how the company is leveraging borrowing against the capital invested by the owners.
Competition

According to the company disclosure, MetLife Preferred Stock has a Debt To Equity of 1.525%. This is 95.36% lower than that of the Financial Services sector and significantly higher than that of the Insurance—Life industry. The debt to equity for all United States preferred stocks is 96.87% higher than that of the company.

MetLife Debt To Equity Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses MetLife Preferred's direct or indirect competition against its Debt To Equity to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the preferred stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of MetLife Preferred could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing MetLife Preferred by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
MetLife Preferred is regarded second in debt to equity category among its peers.

MetLife Fundamentals

About MetLife Preferred Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze MetLife Preferred Stock's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of MetLife Preferred using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of MetLife Preferred Stock based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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MetLife Preferred financial ratios help investors to determine whether MetLife Preferred Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in MetLife with respect to the benefits of owning MetLife Preferred security.