MetLife, Inc. vs Travelers Companies, Inc., two Insurance stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
MetLife is a life insurer, earning the spread on long-duration liabilities and the float they throw off. Travelers writes property and casualty risk, where the combined ratio and reserve discipline decide the year. Travelers earns nearly double the return on equity, 23.77% against MetLife's 13.11%, and carries the far fatter net margin, 15.54% versus 4.66%, the two models measured on different scales. The market prices Travelers cheaper on earnings, 9.77 times against 16.62, and richer on book, 2.24 times versus 2.04. Travelers is the larger house at $71.5B against $56.4B. MetLife pays the bigger dividend, 2.62% versus 0.86%.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | MET | TRV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $91.65 | $338.86 |
| Market cap | $60.1B | $74.0B |
| Sector | Financial Services | Financial Services |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 17.7 | 10.1 |
| P/B | 2.18 | 2.31 |
| P/S | 0.77 | 1.51 |
| EV/EBITDA | 5.8 | 380.3 |
| Revenue growth | +5.4% | +4.2% |
| Operating margin | 8.6% | — |
| Net margin | 4.7% | 15.5% |
| Return on equity | 13.1% | 23.8% |
| Return on assets | 0.5% | 5.3% |
| Dividend yield | 2.5% | 0.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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