Sun Life Financial Stock Forecast, Price & News

12 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Sun Life Financial in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" Sun Life Financial stock.
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Sun Life Financial saw a increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,300,000 shares, an increase of 41.2% from the March 31st total of 920,400 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 543,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.4 days. Approximately 0.2% of the company's stock are short sold.
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Sun Life Financial is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 5th 2021.
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Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF) released its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 10th. The financial services provider reported $1.47 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.96 by $0.51. The financial services provider earned $8.94 billion during the quarter. Sun Life Financial had a net margin of 6.19% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.09%. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.34 EPS.
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Sun Life Financial's stock was trading at $36.91 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, SLF shares have increased by 48.2% and is now trading at $54.71.
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Sun Life Financial announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 12th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 1st will be given a dividend of $0.433 per share on Wednesday, March 31st. This represents a $1.73 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.17%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 26th. This is an increase from Sun Life Financial's previous quarterly dividend of $0.41.
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Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.22 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.26%. Sun Life Financial does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Sun Life Financial is 31.36%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Sun Life Financial will have a dividend payout ratio of 29.83% next year. This indicates that Sun Life Financial will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Sun Life Financial's stock. Their forecasts range from $38.00 to $76.00. On average, they anticipate Sun Life Financial's share price to reach $66.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 20.6% from the stock's current price.
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58 employees have rated Sun Life Financial CEO Dean Connor on Glassdoor.com. Dean Connor has an approval rating of 99% among Sun Life Financial's employees. This puts Dean Connor in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Some companies that are related to Sun Life Financial include AXA (AXAHY), China Life Insurance (LFC), MetLife (MET), Prudential (PUK), Manulife Financial (MFC), Prudential Financial (PRU), Swiss Re (SSREY), Aviva (AVVIY), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Aegon (AEG), Lincoln National (LNC), Globe Life (GL), Athene (ATH), Sony Financial (SNYFY) and Reinsurance Group of America (RGA).
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Sun Life Financial trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SLF."

Sun Life Financial's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (1.20%), BRITISH COLUMBIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Corp (0.30%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.29%), Value Partners Investments Inc. (0.19%), QV Investors Inc. (0.11%) and Cardinal Capital Management Inc. (0.09%).

SLF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BRITISH COLUMBIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Corp, Cardinal Capital Management Inc., DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, Hillsdale Investment Management Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., QV Investors Inc., Value Partners Investments Inc., and Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL.

SLF stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company , Systematic Alpha Investments LLC, AMF Pensionsforsakring AB, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Symmetry Partners LLC, Motco, Lorne Steinberg Wealth Management Inc., and Wambolt & Associates LLC.

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One share of SLF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $54.71.

Sun Life Financial has a market capitalization of $32.02 billion and generates $29.90 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $2.22 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.89 on an earnings per share basis.

Sun Life Financial employs 23,816 workers across the globe.

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Sun Life Financial was founded in 1865.

The official website for Sun Life Financial is www.sunlife.com.

Sun Life Financial is headquartered at 1 YORK STREET 31ST FLOOR, TORONTO A6, M5J 0B6.

Sun Life Financial's mailing address is 1 YORK STREET 31ST FLOOR, TORONTO A6, M5J 0B6. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 416-979-9966 or via email at [email protected]