MetLife, Inc.
METHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYMetLife, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Transformational Buyer deploying $738M across 1 disclosed transactions, down 79% vs the prior cycle · primary market Insurance, ranked #2 on disclosed spend.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$738M
vs $3.5B in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
1
1/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Transformational Buyer
Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.
Composite score
78
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $36.4B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 19d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 19d
- 681 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 124 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 124 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 124 activism filings
- Latest activism 1.6y ago
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 124 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 681 8-Ks
- Filed within 19d
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $48.5B
- 10-Q 19d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $1,800M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | $738M | $738M | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | $35M | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | $1.8B | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | 1 | $1.7B | $1.7B | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Platform25%
- Geographic Expansion25%
- Horizontal Consolidation25%
- Bolt On25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- platform
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- bolt_on
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“This acquisition supports MetLife’s New Frontier strategy to accelerate growth in asset management by adding significant scale and broadening our global product offerings and distribution reach.”
“management of the Company increased significantly the size and scale of the Company's core insurance and annuity products”
“The Acquisition will significantly broaden the Company’s diversification by product, distribution and geography”
“The ongoing financial turbulence and the governmental responses have affected the competitive environment and may lead to consolidation within the life insurance industry as well as further consolidation in the broader financial services industry. The precise impacts of such events on our business are difficult to predict.”
“expanded the Company's presence in both the retirement & savings domestic and international markets”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Insurance
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $50.4B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $62.2B
- Recent vs prior
- −19%
- Issuer rank in market
- #2 of 97
- Share of market capital
- 9.1%
Valuation positioning
MET trades at a -3.8-turn discount to the Insurance peer median of 12.1×.
- EV / Revenue
- 0.6×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -3.8×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.1×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14.9× | 3.6× | 2.8× | $27.5B | $10.2B | |
| 12.1× | 4.1× | 3.1× | $6.4B | $9.4B | |
| 11.2× | 2.3× | -0.1× | $61.1B | $1.3B | |
MetLife, Inc.MET | 8.2× | 0.6× | -3.8× | $76.9B | $738M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Insurance. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)262026-02-19
- 10-Q (quarterly)812026-05-07
- 8-K (event)6812026-05-06
- Proxy / DEF 14A422026-04-29
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)1242024-11-01
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-11-01124 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
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Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.