NYSE:SLFSun Life Financial Stock Price, Forecast & News

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. Since then, SLF shares have increased by 5.4% and is now trading at $38.91.
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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) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May, 5th. The financial services provider reported $1.31 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.79 by $0.52. The financial services provider had revenue of $4.82 billion for the quarter. Sun Life Financial had a return on equity of 13.77% and a net margin of 7.01%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.20 earnings per share.
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Sun Life Financial declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 5th. Investors of record on Wednesday, May 27th will be given a dividend of $0.394 per share on Tuesday, June 30th. This represents a $1.58 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.05%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, May 26th.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Sun Life Financial's stock. Their forecasts range from $38.00 to $72.00. On average, they anticipate Sun Life Financial's stock price to reach $56.35 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 44.8% from the stock's current price.
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Press coverage about SLF stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news 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 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.
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Sun Life Financial saw a increase in short interest in 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 currently 4.4 days. Approximately 0.5% of the company's stock 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 shareholders 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 acquired 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 $38.91.

Sun Life Financial has a market capitalization of $22.75 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]