Key Considerations Before Investing in SLF

By Naomi Wentworth • Thursday, November 27 10:02 • Permanent Link

Sun Life Financial logged a -0.8% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $58.66 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. SLF's trading volume is 276,179 compared to the stock's average volume of 452,889.

Sun Life Financial trades -4.19% away from its average analyst target price of $61.22 per share. The 2 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $52.88829 to $69.55983, and on average have given Sun Life Financial a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying SLF should be aware of the facts below:

Sun Life Financial has moved -4.4% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 12.9%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 3.74, Sun Life Financial has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 15.7 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
SLF has a forward P/E ratio of 10.8 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $5.41 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 1.4 compared to its sector average of 1.78
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.
Based in Toronto, the company has 31,768 full time employees and a market cap of $32.96 Billion. Sun Life Financial currently returns an annual dividend yield of 5.8%.

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