NYSE:SLF - Sun Life Financial Stock Price, Forecast & News

Sun Life Financial trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SLF."

Sun Life Financial declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 6th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, November 27th will be given a dividend of $0.418 per share on Tuesday, December 31st. This represents a $1.67 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.44%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, November 26th. This is an increase from Sun Life Financial's previous quarterly dividend of $0.40. View Sun Life Financial's Dividend History.

Sun Life Financial Inc (NYSE:SLF) released its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 6th. The financial services provider reported $1.37 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.97 by $0.40. The financial services provider had revenue of $7.28 billion for the quarter. Sun Life Financial had a return on equity of 13.20% and a net margin of 6.43%. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.20 earnings per share. View Sun Life Financial's Earnings History.

Sun Life Financial is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 12th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Sun Life Financial.

Sun Life Financial will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, February 12th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

9 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Sun Life Financial's stock. Their forecasts range from $53.00 to $67.00. On average, they anticipate Sun Life Financial's stock price to reach $58.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 20.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Sun Life Financial.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Sun Life Financial in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Sun Life Financial.

News articles about SLF stock have been trending negative on Saturday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Sun Life Financial earned a media sentiment score of -2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Sun Life Financial.

Sun Life Financial saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,260,000 shares, an increase of 232.0% from the December 15th total of 981,800 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 583,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.6 days. Currently, 0.6% of the company's stock are sold short. View Sun Life Financial's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Sun Life Financial include China Life Insurance (LFC), AXA (AXAHY), Metlife (MET), Prudential Public (PUK), Manulife Financial (MFC), Prudential Financial (PRU), SWISS RE LTD/S (SSREY), HANNOVER RUECK/S (HVRRY), AVIVA PLC/ADR (AVVIY), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Lincoln National (LNC), AEGON (AEG), Globe Life (GL), SONY FINL HOLDI/ADR (SNYFY) and Reinsurance Group of America (RGA).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Sun Life Financial investors own include Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Manulife Financial (MFC), AT&T (T), Ford Motor (F), Bank of America (BAC), BCE (BCE), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), CBL & Associates Properties (CBL), Verizon Communications (VZ) and Cornerstone Total Return Fund (CRF).

Sun Life Financial's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Cardinal Capital Management Inc. (0.28%), Hexavest Inc. (0.02%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.01%), Unison Advisors LLC (0.01%), JCIC Asset Management Inc. (0.00%) and Cozad Asset Management Inc. (0.00%).

SLF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hexavest Inc., Cozad Asset Management Inc., IFP Advisors Inc, JCIC Asset Management Inc. and Stonebridge Capital Management Inc..

SLF stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cardinal Capital Management Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Flaharty Asset Management LLC, Unison Advisors LLC and AE Wealth Management LLC.

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 $48.63.

Sun Life Financial has a market capitalization of $33.06 billion and generates $20.83 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $2.25 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.75 on an earnings per share basis. Sun Life Financial employs 22,318 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Sun Life Financial.

The official website for Sun Life Financial is http://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]