NYSE:SLFSun Life Financial Stock Price, Forecast & News

Sun Life Financial's stock was trading at $36.91 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, SLF shares have increased by 6.3% and is now trading at $39.24.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Sun Life Financial in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Sun Life Financial is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 6th 2020.
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Sun Life Financial will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, August 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Sun Life Financial Inc (NYSE:SLF) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May, 5th. The financial services provider reported $1.31 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.79 by $0.52. The financial services provider earned $4.82 billion during the quarter. Sun Life Financial had a net margin of 7.01% and a return on equity of 13.77%. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.20 EPS.
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Sun Life Financial announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 5th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, May 27th will be paid a dividend of $0.394 per share on Tuesday, June 30th. This represents a $1.58 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.02%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, May 26th.
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12 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Sun Life Financial's shares. Their forecasts range from $38.00 to $72.00. On average, they anticipate Sun Life Financial's share price to reach $56.35 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 43.6% from the stock's current price.
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News headlines about SLF stock have been trending somewhat positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Sun Life Financial earned a daily sentiment score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.
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Sun Life Financial saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,160,000 shares, an increase of 38.6% from the June 30th total of 2,280,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 725,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.4 days. Approximately 0.5% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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Some companies that are related to Sun Life Financial include China Life Insurance (LFC), AXA (AXAHY), Prudential Public (PUK), Metlife (MET), Manulife Financial (MFC), SWISS RE LTD/S (SSREY), Prudential Financial (PRU), AVIVA PLC/ADR (AVVIY), Legal & General Group (LGEN), SONY FINL HOLDI/ADR (SNYFY), Globe Life (GL), AEGON (AEG), Lincoln National (LNC), Athene (ATH) and Voya Financial (VOYA).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Sun Life Financial investors own include Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), AT&T (T), Manulife Financial (MFC), Ford Motor (F), Pfizer (PFE), Verizon Communications (VZ), Bank of America (BAC), BCE (BCE), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) and Blackstone Group (BX).

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 variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include CIBC Asset Management Inc (0.68%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.42%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.21%), Value Partners Investments Inc. (0.18%), QV Investors Inc. (0.16%) and Mn Services Vermogensbeheer B.V. (0.09%).

SLF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Intact Investment Management Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, M&G Investment Management Ltd., NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Vident Investment Advisory LLC, Vident Investment Advisory LLC, and Hexavest Inc..

SLF stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including CIBC Asset Management Inc, Value Partners Investments Inc., QV Investors Inc., Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., and Motco.

Shares of SLF can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of SLF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $39.24.

Sun Life Financial has a market capitalization of $22.94 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 22,719 workers across the globe.

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

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]