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AFL vs MET
Side-by-side comparison of AFLAC Incorporated (AFL) and MetLife Inc. (MET): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both companies sit in the Finance sector. AFL focuses on Accident &Health Insurance, while MET focuses on Life Insurance.
- AFL is the larger of the two at $58.77B, about 1.1x MET ($55.07B).
- Over the past year, AFL is up 11.8% and MET is up 8.0% - AFL leads by 3.7 points.
- MET has been more active in the news (28 items in the past 4 weeks vs 21 for AFL).
- MET has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 18 for AFL).
AFLAC Incorporated
Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, provides supplemental health and life insurance products. It operates through two segments, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Aflac Japan segment offers cancer, medical, income support, GIFT, and whole and term life insurance products, as well as WAYS and child endowment plans under saving type insurance products in Japan. The Aflac U.S. segment provides cancer, accident, short-term disability, critical care, hospital indemnity, dental, vision, long-term care and disability, and term and whole life insurance products in the United States. It sells its products through sales associates, brokers, independent corporate agencies, individual agencies, and affiliated corporate agencies. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia.
MetLife Inc.
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, 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, the company offers personal lines of property and casualty insurance, including private passenger automobile, homeowners', and personal excess liability insurance. Further, it provides fixed and variable annuities, and pension products; accident and health products; regular savings products; whole and term life, endowments, universal and variable life, and group life products; 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.
Latest AFL
- Large owner Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. sold $3,521,756 worth of shares (30,000 units at $117.39) (SEC Form 4)
- Large owner Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. sold $3,374,423 worth of shares (28,800 units at $117.17) (SEC Form 4)
- Large owner Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. sold $6,240,184 worth of shares (53,000 units at $117.74) (SEC Form 4)
- Large owner Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. sold $5,684,138 worth of shares (48,500 units at $117.20) (SEC Form 4)
- Large owner Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. sold $3,100,375 worth of shares (26,500 units at $117.00) (SEC Form 4)
- Large owner Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. sold $1,477,548 worth of shares (12,800 units at $115.43) (SEC Form 4)
- Large owner Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. sold $1,613,029 worth of shares (13,900 units at $116.05) (SEC Form 4)
- Large owner Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. sold $7,441,567 worth of shares (63,000 units at $118.12) (SEC Form 4)
- Large owner Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. sold $1,883,268 worth of shares (16,300 units at $115.54) (SEC Form 4)
- Large owner Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. sold $1,877,570 worth of shares (16,300 units at $115.19) (SEC Form 4)
Latest MET
- SEC Form 144 filed by MetLife Inc.
- Director Mumenthaler Christian Stephane was granted 587 units of Common Stock, increasing direct ownership by 20% to 3,452 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Kennard William E was granted 587 shares, increasing direct ownership by 1% to 47,410 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Johnson Jeh C. was granted 587 shares, increasing direct ownership by 7% to 9,498 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Mckenzie Diana was granted 587 shares, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 25,229 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Hay Laura J was granted 587 units of Common Stock, increasing direct ownership by 10% to 6,318 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Hubbard Robert Glenn was granted 1,016 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.95% to 107,573 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Harris Carla A was granted 587 shares, increasing direct ownership by 6% to 11,115 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Glaser Daniel S was granted 587 units of Common Stock, increasing direct ownership by 28% to 2,695 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Seitz Michelle was granted 587 units of Common Stock, increasing direct ownership by 59% to 1,581 units (SEC Form 4)