Share buybacks · 2012–2025

MetLife share buybacks

$2.9B−10.1% · FY2025

MetLife (MET) reported $2.9B in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, −10.1% year on year.

$02012$02013$1.0B2014$1.9B2015$372M2016$2.9B2017$4.0B2018$2.3B2019$1.2B2020$4.3B2021$3.3B2022$3.1B2023$3.2B2024$2.9B2025
MetLife — Share buybacks, 2012–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$2.9B−10.1%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$3.2B+3.4%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$3.1B−6.7%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$3.3B−22.7%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$4.3B+273.8%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$1.2B−49.6%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$2.3B−42.8%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$4.0B+36.4%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$2.9B+686.8%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$372M−80.7%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$1.9B+93.0%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$1.0B+$1.0BOpen →
FY20132013-12-31$0$0Open →
FY20122012-12-31$0—Open →

Share buybacks — Share buybacks are the cash a company spent during the year repurchasing its own stock, taken from the financing section of the cash-flow statement. Most companies buy back nothing at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the minority that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

CompaniesRanked. (September 25, 2026). MetLife share buybacks. CompaniesRanked. https://companiesranked.com/en/company/metlife/share-buybacks

BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{MetLife share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/metlife/share-buybacks}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001099219-26-000013 · February 19, 2026

{{cite web |title=MetLife share buybacks — 10-K (0001099219-26-000013) |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1099219/000109921926000013/met-20251231.htm |website=SEC EDGAR |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |date=2026-02-19}}

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