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. Shareholders 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.45%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, November 26th. This is a boost 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 quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 6th. The financial services provider reported $1.37 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.97 by $0.40. The financial services provider had revenue of $7.28 billion for the quarter. Sun Life Financial had a net margin of 6.43% and a return on equity of 13.20%. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $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 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Sun Life Financial's shares. 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 twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 21.2% 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.

Media headlines about SLF stock have been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. 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 media sentiment score of 2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines 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 impact on the stock's share price in the next several 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 trading volume of 583,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.6 days. Currently, 0.6% 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), 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), AT&T (T), Manulife Financial (MFC), BCE (BCE), Ford Motor (F), Bank of America (BAC), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Verizon Communications (VZ), Enbridge (ENB) and Pfizer (PFE).

Sun Life Financial's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Cardinal Capital Management Inc. (0.28%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.04%), Hexavest Inc. (0.02%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.01%), Unison Advisors LLC (0.01%) and JCIC 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 bought 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, AE Wealth Management LLC and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank .

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 $48.43.

Sun Life Financial has a market capitalization of $32.93 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]