What Are the Fundamentals of Sun Life Financial (SLF)?

By Scott Lee • Monday, July 13 10:45 • Permanent Link

Sun Life Financial marked a -2.0% change today, compared to -0.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $78.33? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

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.
Sun Life Financial belongs to the Finance sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 15.92 and an average price to book (P/B) of 1.78
The company's P/B ratio is 2.58
Sun Life Financial has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 20.7 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $3.78 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 13.0, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $6.01
SLF has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 1.58, which shows the company has a fair value when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
Over the last four years, Sun Life Financial has averaged free cash flows of $3.44 Billion, which on average grew -17.3%
Sun Life Financial has moved 27.3% over the last year compared to 20.8% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 6.5%
SLF has an average analyst rating of buy and is 14.1% away from its mean target price of $68.65 per share

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