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 announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 12th. Stockholders of record on Sunday, March 1st will be given a dividend of $0.416 per share on Tuesday, March 31st. This represents a $1.66 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.36%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 27th. View Sun Life Financial's Dividend History.

Sun Life Financial Inc (NYSE:SLF) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 12th. The financial services provider reported $1.34 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.98 by $0.36. The financial services provider earned $8.53 billion during the quarter. Sun Life Financial had a return on equity of 13.29% and a net margin of 6.72%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 4.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $1.19 EPS. View Sun Life Financial's Earnings History.

Sun Life Financial is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 13th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Sun Life Financial.

10 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Sun Life Financial's shares. Their forecasts range from $52.00 to $72.00. On average, they anticipate Sun Life Financial's share price to reach $61.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Sun Life Financial.

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

News coverage about SLF stock has trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Sun Life Financial earned a daily sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely 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 January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,840,000 shares, an increase of 17.8% from the January 15th total of 3,260,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 579,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.6 days. Approximately 0.7% of the company's shares are short sold. View Sun Life Financial's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Sun Life Financial include China Life Insurance (LFC), AXA (AXAHY), Prudential Public (PUK), Metlife (MET), SWISS RE LTD/S (SSREY), Manulife Financial (MFC), Prudential Financial (PRU), HANNOVER RUECK/S (HVRRY), AVIVA PLC/ADR (AVVIY), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Globe Life (GL), Lincoln National (LNC), AEGON (AEG), 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), AT&T (T), Manulife Financial (MFC), BCE (BCE), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Ford Motor (F), Bank of America (BAC), Verizon Communications (VZ), Enbridge (ENB) and Pfizer (PFE).

Sun Life Financial's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FIL Ltd (3.06%), TD Asset Management Inc. (3.03%), Letko Brosseau & Associates Inc. (1.33%), CIBC World Markets Inc. (1.04%), Great West Life Assurance Co. Can (0.97%) and Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. (0.79%).

SLF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alberta Investment Management Corp, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Guardian Capital LP, Letko Brosseau & Associates Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Citigroup Inc., Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ and Goldman Sachs Group Inc..

SLF stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FIL Ltd, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, First Trust Advisors LP, Cardinal Capital Management Inc., M&G Investment Management Ltd., Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. and TD Asset Management Inc..

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 $49.48.

Sun Life Financial has a market capitalization of $29.09 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 22,318 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]