MET MetLife, Inc. — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates
MetLife, Inc. operates as a leading global financial services entity, delivering an extensive array of services encompassing insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management. The company manages its operations through five primary divisions: the U.S., Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and MetLife Holdings. Its broad insurance offerings include life, dental, group short-term and long-term disability, individual disability, pet, accidental death and dismemberment, vision, and accident and health coverages, as well as prepaid legal plans. MetLife also supports employers with administrative services-only (ASO) arrangements. Furthermore, it provides sophisticated financial instruments such as general and separate account contracts, synthetic guaranteed interest contracts, and private floating rate funding agreements. The company facilitates pension risk transfers, offers institutional income annuities, structures settlements, and delivers capital markets investment products. Specialized life insurance products and funding agreements are also available for post-retirement benefits, alongside company, bank, or trust-owned life insurance used to finance non-qualified executive benefit programs. In addition, MetLife offers a variety of annuity options including fixed, indexed-linked, and variable, alongside pension and regular savings products. Its life insurance portfolio features whole life, term life, endowments, universal and variable life, and group life policies. The company also provides longevity reinsurance solutions, credit insurance products, and protection for long-term healthcare services. MetLife, Inc. was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in New York City.
Dividend Snapshot
Key Metrics
Current Yield
2.44%
At the Sep 14, 2026 price
The annual dividend as a percentage of the share price. A 3% yield is about $3 of dividends a year for every $100 invested at today's price.Annualized Dividend
$2.3700
The most recent payment scaled to a full year by how often it's paid. A $0.25 quarterly dividend annualizes to $1.00.Frequency
Q Quarterly
How often the dividend is paid: Q = quarterly (4x a year), M = monthly, S = semi-annual, A = annual.Rank Score
60.7
As of Sep 14, 2026
Our 0-100 house score blending yield quality, payout sustainability (the trailing-twelve-month payout ratio), profitability (TTM return on equity), valuation (TTM price-to-book) and payment reliability, recomputed daily. Higher means a stronger profile on those factors in our model — a research score, not advice or a recommendation to buy.RSI (14)
54
As of Sep 14, 2026
Relative Strength Index (0-100), a price-momentum gauge. Above 70 is often called 'overbought', below 30 'oversold'. A technical signal, not a dividend metric.52-Week Range
$67.70 – $99.95
Closes through Sep 11, 2026
The lowest and highest price over the past year — shows where today's price sits in its recent range.Payout Ratio (TTM)
46.36%
12 months to Jun 30, 2026 (Q2 FY2026)
The share of earnings paid out as dividends over the trailing twelve months (TTM): dividends paid divided by net income across the company's four most recent reported quarters, dated by the latest quarter end. A fiscal-year tag such as FY2025 means only annual figures were available. Lower leaves more cushion; above 100% means paying out more than the company earned. It shows n/a for funds and when net income over the period was negative; for REITs and BDCs it is marked EPS-based, since they are judged on FFO/AFFO or net investment income instead.Years Paying
25
How many years of payments we have on record. This can understate very long histories where our data doesn't reach far enough back.Price / Book (TTM)
2.32
Price as of Sep 14, 2026; latest reported book value
Price-to-book ratio: the share price on the date shown divided by the latest reported book value per share. A rough valuation gauge, most useful for asset-heavy sectors like REITs, banks and insurers.S.A.F.E. Dividend Read
Quote & Key Data
Dividend Growth
Why the Yield Moved (90 Days)
MET's dividend yield fell from 2.71% to 2.44% over the past ~90 days (-0.27 pp). Of that move, +0.00 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and -0.27 pp from the share price ($87.40 on Jun 16, 2026 → $97.14 on Sep 14, 2026). A yield that rises because the price fell is not an improvement in the payout itself.
Yield vs Its Own History
Across 333 daily observations over the past 16 months (through Sep 11, 2026), MET's current yield is higher than approximately 2% of them. Our stored price history for MET covers the past 16 months; 3- and 5-year averages are not yet computable from it and are deliberately not shown.
Adjusted Price History
Dividend History
Dividend Payment History
Ex-dividend calendar →| Amount | Type | Declared | Ex-Date | Record | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.5925 Q | Regular | Jul 07, 2026 | Aug 04, 2026 | Aug 04, 2026 | Sep 08, 2026 |
| $0.5925 Q | Regular | Apr 28, 2026 | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 | Jun 09, 2026 |
| $0.5675 Q | Regular | Jan 06, 2026 | Feb 03, 2026 | Feb 03, 2026 | Mar 10, 2026 |
| $0.5675 Q | Regular | Oct 07, 2025 | Nov 04, 2025 | Nov 04, 2025 | Dec 09, 2025 |
| $0.5675 Q | Regular | Jul 08, 2025 | Aug 05, 2025 | Aug 05, 2025 | Sep 09, 2025 |
| $0.5675 Q | Regular | Apr 22, 2025 | May 06, 2025 | May 06, 2025 | Jun 10, 2025 |
| $0.5450 Q | Regular | Jan 07, 2025 | Feb 04, 2025 | Feb 04, 2025 | Mar 11, 2025 |
| $0.5450 Q | Regular | Oct 08, 2024 | Nov 05, 2024 | Nov 05, 2024 | Dec 16, 2024 |
| $0.5450 Q | Regular | Jul 09, 2024 | Aug 06, 2024 | Aug 06, 2024 | Sep 10, 2024 |
| $0.5450 Q | Regular | Apr 23, 2024 | May 06, 2024 | May 07, 2024 | Jun 11, 2024 |
| $0.5200 Q | Regular | Jan 09, 2024 | Feb 05, 2024 | Feb 06, 2024 | Mar 14, 2024 |
| $0.5200 Q | Regular | Oct 10, 2023 | Nov 08, 2023 | Nov 09, 2023 | Dec 14, 2023 |
| $0.5200 Q | Regular | Jul 11, 2023 | Aug 07, 2023 | Aug 08, 2023 | Sep 14, 2023 |
| $0.5200 Q | Regular | Apr 25, 2023 | May 08, 2023 | May 09, 2023 | Jun 14, 2023 |
| $0.5000 Q | Regular | Jan 10, 2023 | Feb 06, 2023 | Feb 07, 2023 | Mar 14, 2023 |
| $0.5000 Q | Regular | Oct 11, 2022 | Nov 07, 2022 | Nov 08, 2022 | Dec 14, 2022 |
| $0.5000 Q | Regular | Jul 11, 2022 | Aug 08, 2022 | Aug 09, 2022 | Sep 14, 2022 |
| $0.5000 Q | Regular | Apr 26, 2022 | May 09, 2022 | May 10, 2022 | Jun 14, 2022 |
| $0.4800 Q | Regular | Jan 10, 2022 | Feb 07, 2022 | Feb 08, 2022 | Mar 14, 2022 |
| $0.4800 Q | Regular | Oct 21, 2021 | Nov 08, 2021 | Nov 09, 2021 | Dec 14, 2021 |
| $0.4800 Q | Regular | Jul 08, 2021 | Aug 09, 2021 | Aug 10, 2021 | Sep 14, 2021 |
| $0.4800 Q | Regular | Apr 27, 2021 | May 10, 2021 | May 11, 2021 | Jun 14, 2021 |
| $0.4600 Q | Regular | Jan 07, 2021 | Feb 04, 2021 | Feb 05, 2021 | Mar 15, 2021 |
| $0.4600 Q | Regular | Oct 20, 2020 | Nov 02, 2020 | Nov 03, 2020 | Dec 14, 2020 |
| $0.4600 Q | Regular | Jul 08, 2020 | Aug 03, 2020 | Aug 04, 2020 | Sep 14, 2020 |
| $0.4600 Q | Regular | Apr 28, 2020 | May 07, 2020 | May 08, 2020 | Jun 12, 2020 |
| $0.4400 Q | Regular | Jan 07, 2020 | Feb 03, 2020 | Feb 04, 2020 | Mar 13, 2020 |
| $0.4400 Q | Regular | Oct 22, 2019 | Nov 04, 2019 | Nov 05, 2019 | Dec 13, 2019 |
| $0.4400 Q | Regular | Jul 08, 2019 | Aug 05, 2019 | Aug 06, 2019 | Sep 13, 2019 |
| $0.4400 Q | Regular | Apr 23, 2019 | May 06, 2019 | May 07, 2019 | Jun 13, 2019 |
| $0.4200 Q | Regular | Jan 07, 2019 | Feb 04, 2019 | Feb 05, 2019 | Mar 13, 2019 |
| $0.4200 Q | Regular | Oct 23, 2018 | Nov 05, 2018 | Nov 06, 2018 | Dec 13, 2018 |
| $0.4200 Q | Regular | Jul 06, 2018 | Aug 03, 2018 | Aug 06, 2018 | Sep 13, 2018 |
| $0.4200 Q | Regular | Apr 24, 2018 | May 04, 2018 | May 07, 2018 | Jun 13, 2018 |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | Jan 05, 2018 | Feb 02, 2018 | Feb 05, 2018 | Mar 13, 2018 |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | Oct 24, 2017 | Nov 03, 2017 | Nov 06, 2017 | Dec 13, 2017 |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | Jul 07, 2017 | Aug 03, 2017 | Aug 07, 2017 | Sep 13, 2017 |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | Apr 26, 2017 | May 04, 2017 | May 08, 2017 | Jun 13, 2017 |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | Jan 06, 2017 | Feb 02, 2017 | Feb 06, 2017 | Mar 13, 2017 |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | Oct 25, 2016 | Nov 03, 2016 | Nov 07, 2016 | Dec 13, 2016 |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | Jul 07, 2016 | Aug 04, 2016 | Aug 08, 2016 | Sep 13, 2016 |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | Apr 26, 2016 | May 05, 2016 | May 09, 2016 | Jun 13, 2016 |
| $0.3750 Q | Regular | Jan 06, 2016 | Feb 03, 2016 | Feb 05, 2016 | Mar 14, 2016 |
| $0.3750 Q | Regular | Oct 27, 2015 | Nov 04, 2015 | Nov 06, 2015 | Dec 11, 2015 |
| $0.3750 Q | Regular | Jul 07, 2015 | Aug 05, 2015 | Aug 07, 2015 | Sep 11, 2015 |
| $0.3750 Q | Regular | Apr 28, 2015 | May 07, 2015 | May 11, 2015 | Jun 12, 2015 |
| $0.3500 Q | Regular | Jan 06, 2015 | Feb 04, 2015 | Feb 06, 2015 | Mar 13, 2015 |
| $0.3500 Q | Regular | Oct 28, 2014 | Nov 05, 2014 | Nov 07, 2014 | Dec 12, 2014 |
| $0.3500 Q | Regular | Jul 07, 2014 | Aug 06, 2014 | Aug 08, 2014 | Sep 12, 2014 |
| $0.3500 Q | Regular | Apr 22, 2014 | May 07, 2014 | May 09, 2014 | Jun 13, 2014 |
| $0.2750 Q | Regular | Jan 06, 2014 | Feb 04, 2014 | Feb 06, 2014 | Mar 13, 2014 |
| $0.2750 Q | Regular | Oct 22, 2013 | Nov 06, 2013 | Nov 08, 2013 | Dec 13, 2013 |
| $0.2750 Q | Regular | Jun 25, 2013 | Aug 07, 2013 | Aug 09, 2013 | Sep 13, 2013 |
| $0.2750 Q | Regular | Apr 23, 2013 | May 07, 2013 | May 09, 2013 | Jun 13, 2013 |
| $0.1850 Q | Regular | Jan 04, 2013 | Feb 04, 2013 | Feb 06, 2013 | Mar 13, 2013 |
| $0.7400 Q | Regular | Oct 23, 2012 | Nov 07, 2012 | Nov 09, 2012 | Dec 14, 2012 |
| $0.7400 A | Regular | Oct 26, 2011 | Nov 07, 2011 | Nov 09, 2011 | Dec 14, 2011 |
| $0.7400 A | Regular | Oct 27, 2010 | Nov 05, 2010 | Nov 09, 2010 | Dec 14, 2010 |
| $0.7400 A | Regular | Oct 30, 2009 | Nov 05, 2009 | Nov 09, 2009 | Dec 14, 2009 |
| $0.7400 A | Regular | Oct 30, 2008 | Nov 06, 2008 | Nov 10, 2008 | Dec 15, 2008 |
| $0.7400 A | Regular | Oct 23, 2007 | Nov 02, 2007 | Nov 06, 2007 | Dec 14, 2007 |
| $0.5900 A | Regular | Oct 24, 2006 | Nov 02, 2006 | Nov 06, 2006 | Dec 15, 2006 |
| $0.5200 A | Regular | Oct 25, 2005 | Nov 03, 2005 | Nov 07, 2005 | Dec 15, 2005 |
| $0.4600 A | Regular | Sep 28, 2004 | Nov 03, 2004 | Nov 05, 2004 | Dec 13, 2004 |
| $0.2300 A | Regular | Oct 21, 2003 | Nov 05, 2003 | Nov 07, 2003 | Dec 15, 2003 |
| $0.2100 A | Regular | Oct 22, 2002 | Nov 06, 2002 | Nov 08, 2002 | Dec 13, 2002 |
| $0.2000 A | Regular | Oct 23, 2001 | Nov 02, 2001 | Nov 06, 2001 | Dec 14, 2001 |
| $0.2000 A | Regular | Oct 24, 2000 | Nov 03, 2000 | Nov 07, 2000 | Dec 15, 2000 |
Peer Comparison
Selected Insurance - Life dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.
| Ticker | Name | Yield | 5-Yr Growth | Streak | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CINSF | China Taiping Insurance Holdings Company Limited | 5.03% | 2.9% | 2 yrs | 91 |
| LNC | Lincoln National Corporation | 4.11% | 2.4% | 0 yrs | 90 |
| CILJF | China Life Insurance Company Limited | 5.64% | -1.4% | 2 yrs | 80 |
| TDHOF | T&D Holdings, Inc. | 3.55% | 10.7% | 3 yrs | 74 |
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MET dividend — frequently asked questions
Does MetLife, Inc. pay a dividend?
Yes. MetLife, Inc. (MET) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $2.37 per share, a yield of approximately 2.44%.
What is MetLife, Inc.'s dividend yield?
MetLife, Inc.'s dividend yield is approximately 2.44%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.
How often does MetLife, Inc. pay dividends?
MetLife, Inc. pays dividends quarterly — 4 times per year.
How long has MetLife, Inc. paid dividends?
MetLife, Inc. has 25 years of dividend payments on record, and has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Data updated Sep 14, 2026. This research page is generated from Dividendly's structured market and dividend dataset using the approach described on our methodology and data sources pages. Data is automatically validated using defined rules and may also be periodically reviewed. Research only, not investment advice. Spotted a data error? Report it.