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MET vs PRU

Side-by-side comparison of MetLife Inc. (MET) and Prudential Financial Inc. (PRU): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both MET and PRU operate in Life Insurance (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
  • MET is the larger of the two at $52.23B, about 1.5x PRU ($34.12B).
  • Over the past year, MET is up 5.9% and PRU is down 3.5% - MET leads by 9.3 points.
  • PRU has been more active in the news (11 items in the past 4 weeks vs 9 for MET).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceMET+5.85%PRU-3.48%
2025-05-01+0.00%2026-04-30
MetricMETPRU
Company
MetLife Inc.
Prudential Financial Inc.
Price
$80.13+1.45%
$98.15+1.79%
Market cap
$52.23B
$34.12B
1M return
+13.32%
+0.51%
1Y return
+5.85%
-3.48%
Industry
Life Insurance
Life Insurance
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2000
2001
News (4w)
9
11
Recent ratings
25
25
MET

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.

PRU

Prudential Financial Inc.

Prudential Financial, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services in the United States and internationally. It operates through eight segments: PGIM, Retirement, Group Insurance, Individual Annuities, Individual Life, Assurance IQ, International Businesses, and Closed Block. The company offers investment management services and solutions related to public fixed income, public equity, real estate debt and equity, private credit and other alternatives, and multi-asset class strategies to institutional and retail clients, as well as its general account. It provides a range of retirement investment, and income products and services to retirement plan sponsors in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors; and group life, long-term and short-term group disability, and group corporate-, bank-, and trust-owned life insurance in the United States, primarily to institutional clients for use in connection with employee and membership benefits plans, as well as sells accidental death and dismemberment and other supplemental health solutions, and provides plan administration services in connection with its insurance coverages. The company develops and distributes individual variable and fixed annuity products, principally to the mass affluent and affluent markets; and individual variable, term, and universal life insurance products to the mass middle, mass affluent, and affluent markets in the United States. In addition, it provides third-party life, health, Medicare, property and casualty, and personal finance products to retail shoppers through its digital and independent agent channels. The company offers its products and services to individual and institutional customers through its proprietary and third-party distribution networks. Prudential Financial, Inc. was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

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