MetLife Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for MetLife Inc has not yet been scheduled.
What is a Dividend Date
When we talk about a dividend date, we’re referring specifically to the ex-dividend date.
This is the date on which all stockholders will earn a dividend. Technically, a person needs to be the owner of a share of stock as of the night before the ex-dividend date in order to earn the dividend.
The ex-dividend date is different than the date when the dividend is issued. Although you earn a dividend on the ex-dividend date, that dividend is typically not disbursed to your account until several weeks later.
Most brokerages will automatically credit the dividend to your account once it’s issued.
Historical Dividends for MetLife Inc (MET)
| 08/04/2026 | 07/07/2026 | 08/04/2026 | 09/08/2026 | $0.59 |
| 05/12/2026 | 04/28/2026 | 05/12/2026 | 06/09/2026 | $0.59 |
| 02/03/2026 | 01/06/2026 | 02/03/2026 | 03/10/2026 | $0.57 |
| 11/04/2025 | 10/07/2025 | 11/04/2025 | 12/09/2025 | $0.57 |
| 08/05/2025 | 07/08/2025 | 08/05/2025 | 09/09/2025 | $0.57 |
| 05/06/2025 | 04/22/2025 | 05/06/2025 | 06/10/2025 | $0.57 |
| 02/04/2025 | 01/07/2025 | 02/04/2025 | 03/11/2025 | $0.55 |
| 11/05/2024 | 10/08/2024 | 11/05/2024 | 12/16/2024 | $0.55 |
| 08/06/2024 | 07/09/2024 | 08/06/2024 | 09/10/2024 | $0.55 |
| 05/06/2024 | 04/23/2024 | 05/07/2024 | 06/11/2024 | $0.55 |
More About MetLife Inc
MetLife, Inc., a financial services company, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management services worldwide. It operates in six segments: Group Benefits; Retirement and Income Solutions; Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and MetLife Holdings. The company offers life, dental, group short-and long-term disability, paid family and medical leave, individual disability, accidental death and dismemberment, accident and health, vision, and pet insurance, 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, it offers fixed, indexed-linked, and variable annuities; pension products; regular savings products; whole and term life, endowments, universal and variable life, and group life products; longevity and funded reinsurance solutions; credit insurance products; accident & health products covering hospitalization, cancer, critical illness, income protection, and scheduled medical reimbursement plans; and protection against long-term health care services. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in New York, New York.
Owning MetLife Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own MetLife Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of MetLife Inc stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of MetLife Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying MetLife Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the MetLife Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning MetLife Inc Options on the Dividend Date
Unlike the stock price, which will normally have an abrupt decrease by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, option prices typically do not reflect the same phenomenon.
The reason is that in the time leading up to the ex-dividend date, that projected drop in MetLife Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into MetLife Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the MetLife Inc ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the MetLife Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of MetLife Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of MetLife Inc put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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