Growth Metrics

Metlife (MET-PF) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Metlife has reported Return on Sales over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.02% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.02% for Q4 2025, up 19.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.04% (down 7.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.04%, down 5.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.02% at Metlife, down from 0.09% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for MET-PF hit a ceiling of 0.37% in Q2 2021 and a floor of 0.17% in Q4 2024.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.06% (2022), compared with a mean of 0.07%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: soared 36bps in 2021 and later tumbled -31bps in 2022.
  • Metlife's Return on Sales stood at 0.14% in 2021, then dropped by -6bps to 0.13% in 2022, then plummeted by -76bps to 0.03% in 2023, then tumbled by -636bps to 0.17% in 2024, then surged by 111bps to 0.02% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.02% (Q4 2025), 0.09% (Q3 2025), and 0.07% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.