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BHF vs MET

Side-by-side comparison of Brighthouse Financial Inc. (BHF) and MetLife Inc. (MET): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both BHF and MET operate in Life Insurance (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
  • MET is the larger of the two at $52.66B, about 14.6x BHF ($3.60B).
  • Over the past year, BHF is up 6.1% and MET is up 4.1% - BHF leads by 2.0 points.
  • MET has been more active in the news (6 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for BHF).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceBHF+6.06%MET+4.09%
2025-06-02+0.00%2026-06-01
MetricBHFMET
Company
Brighthouse Financial Inc.
MetLife Inc.
Price
$62.70+0.24%
$81.86-1.04%
Market cap
$3.60B
$52.66B
1M return
+0.72%
+2.15%
1Y return
+6.06%
+4.09%
Industry
Life Insurance
Life Insurance
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
2000
News (4w)
1
6
Recent ratings
25
25
BHF

Brighthouse Financial Inc.

Brighthouse Financial, Inc. provides annuity and life insurance products in the United States. It operates through three segments: Annuities, Life, and Run-off. The Annuities segment offers variable, fixed, index-linked, and income annuities for contract holders' needs for protected wealth accumulation on a tax-deferred basis, wealth transfer, and income security. The Life segment provides term, universal, whole, and variable life policies for policyholders' needs for financial security and protected wealth transfer. The Run-off segment manages structured settlements, pension risk transfer contracts, certain company-owned life insurance policies, funding agreements, and universal life with secondary guarantees. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

MET

MetLife Inc.

MetLife, Inc., a financial services company, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management services worldwide. It operates through five segments: U.S.; Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and MetLife Holdings. The company offers life, dental, group short-and long-term disability, individual disability, accidental death and dismemberment, vision, and accident and health coverages, 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, the company offers personal lines of property and casualty insurance, including private passenger automobile, homeowners', and personal excess liability insurance. Further, it provides fixed and variable annuities, and pension products; accident and health products; regular savings products; whole and term life, endowments, universal and variable life, and group life products; credit insurance products; and protection against long-term health care services. MetLife, Inc. was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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