Metlife Preferred Stock Preferred Stock Return On 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 Return On Equity Analysis

MetLife Preferred's Return on Equity or ROE tells company stockholders how effectually their money is being utilized or reinvested. It is a useful ratio when analyzing company profitability or the management effectiveness given the capital invested by the shareholders. ROE shows how efficiently a company utilizes investments to generate income.

Return On Equity

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Net Income

Total Equity

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Current MetLife Preferred Return On Equity

    
  0.0538  
Most of MetLife Preferred's fundamental indicators, such as Return On 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.
For most industries, Return on Equity between 10% and 30% are considered desirable to provide dividends to owners and have funds for the future growth of the company. Investors should be very careful using ROE as the only efficiency indicator because ROE can be high if a company is heavily leveraged.
Competition

Based on the latest financial disclosure, MetLife Preferred Stock has a Return On Equity of 0.0538. This is 96.29% lower than that of the Financial Services sector and significantly higher than that of the Insurance—Life industry. The return on equity for all United States preferred stocks is 117.35% lower than that of the firm.

MetLife Return On 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 Return On 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 return on 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.