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 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.44%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, November 26th. This is a positive change from Sun Life Financial's previous quarterly dividend of $0.40. View Sun Life Financial's Dividend History.

Sun Life Financial Inc (NYSE:SLF) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 6th. The financial services provider reported $1.37 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.97 by $0.40. The financial services provider earned $7.28 billion during the quarter. Sun Life Financial had a return on equity of 13.20% and a net margin of 6.43%. During the same quarter in the previous 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 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Sun Life Financial's shares. Their forecasts range from $53.00 to $67.00. On average, they expect Sun Life Financial's share 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 stories about SLF stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing 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 closest to five being the most favorable. Sun Life Financial earned a news impact score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Sun Life Financial.

Sun Life Financial saw a increase in short interest during 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 volume of 583,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.6 days. Currently, 0.6% of the company's stock 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 a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 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 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]