Sun Life Financial is an insurance - diversified business based in the US. Sun Life Financial shares (SLF) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $55.40 – an increase of 1.91% over the previous week. Sun Life Financial employs 31,768 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $33.1 billion.
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| Latest market close | $55.40 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $44.97 - $62.18 |
| 50-day moving average | $57.25 |
| 200-day moving average | $55.16 |
| Wall St. target price | $50.12 |
| PE ratio | 14.8767 |
| Dividend yield | $3.24 (4.29%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $3.65 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $55.4 from 2025-03-14
| 1 week (2025-03-07) | -0.36% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-02-14) | 0.49% |
| 3 months (2024-12-17) | -6.91% |
| 6 months (2024-09-17) | -1.79% |
| 1 year (2024-03-15) | 1.41% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-03-16) | 34.87% |
| 3 years (2022-03-16) | 15.43% |
| 5 years (2020-03-16) | 119.40% |
Valuing Sun Life Financial stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Sun Life Financial's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Sun Life Financial's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 15x. In other words, Sun Life Financial shares trade at around 15x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Sun Life Financial's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.2819. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Sun Life Financial's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Sun Life Financial's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $5.5 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Sun Life Financial's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $33.1 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 12.41% |
| Gross profit TTM | $13.5 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 0.88% |
| Return on equity TTM | 12.94% |
| Profit margin | 9.45% |
| Book value | $41.50 |
| Market Capitalization | $31 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Sun Life Financial.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 16.27
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Sun Life Financial's overall score of 16.27 (as at 12/31/2018) is excellent – landing it in it in the 18th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Sun Life Financial is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 1.75/100
Social score: 8.12/100
Governance score: 5.4/100
Controversy score: 2/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Sun Life Financial scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that Sun Life Financial has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.
Sun Life Financial Inc. was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 16.27 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 17.68 |
| Environmental score | 1.75 |
| Social score | 8.12 |
| Governance score | 5.4 |
| Level of controversy | 2 |
Dividend payout ratio: 38.57% of net profits
Recently Sun Life Financial has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Sun Life Financial shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Sun Life Financial's case, that would currently equate to about $3.24 per share.
While Sun Life Financial's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Sun Life Financial may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Sun Life Financial's most recent dividend payout was on 30 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 25 February 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Sun Life Financial's shares have ranged in value from as little as $44.9705 up to $62.1827. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Sun Life Financial's is 0.943. This would suggest that Sun Life Financial's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Sun Life Financial Inc. , a financial services company, provides asset management, wealth, insurance and health solutions to individual and institutional customers in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Bermuda. It offers various insurance products, such as term and permanent life; personal health, which includes prescription drugs, dental, and vision care; critical illness; long-term care; and disability. The company also provides investments products, such as mutual funds, segregated funds, annuities, and guaranteed investment products; financial planning and retirement planning services; and asset management products, including pooled funds, institutional portfolios and pension funds. The company was formerly known as Sun Life Financial Services of Canada Inc. and changed its name to Sun Life Financial Inc. in July 2003.
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