Overall market sentiment has been high on Metlife Inc (MET) stock lately. MET receives a Bullish rating from InvestorsObserver's Stock Sentiment Indicator.
What is Stock Sentiment?
Sentiment uses short term technical analysis to gauge whether a stock is desired by investors. As a technical indicator, it focuses on recent trends as opposed to the long term health of the underlying company. Updates for the company such as a earnings release can move the stock away from current trends.
Sentiment is how investors, or the market, feels about a stock. There are lots of ways to measure sentiment. At the core, sentiment is pretty easy to understand. If a stock is going up, investors must be bullish, while if it is going down, sentiment is bearish.
InvestorsObserver’s Sentiment Indicator looks at price trends over the past week and also considers changes in volume. Increasing volume can mean a trend is getting stronger, while decreasing volume can mean a trend is nearing a conclusion.
For stocks that have options, our system also considers the balance between calls, which are often bets that the price will go up, and puts, which are frequently bets that the price will fall.
What's Happening With MET Stock Today?
Metlife Inc (MET) stock is up 1.02% while the S&P 500 is down -0.84% as of 3:03 PM on Friday, Sep 18. MET has risen $0.40 from the previous closing price of $39.32 on volume of 6,122,795 shares. Over the past year the S&P 500 is higher by 11.65% while MET is down -16.99%. MET earned $7.70 a per share in the over the last 12 months, giving it a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.15.
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More About Metlife Inc
MetLife--once a mutual company before the 2000 demutualization--is the largest life insurer in the U.S. by assets and provides a variety of insurance and financial services products. Outside the United States, MetLife operates in Japan and more than 40 countries in Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and the Middle East.
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