Sun Life Financial, Inc (NYSE:SLF) shares, rose in value on Friday, June 20, with the stock price up by 0.05% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $64.10.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $64.07, falling within a range of $63.78 and $64.27. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.878 whereas the PE ratio was 16.28 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $65.56, and the low was $46.41. On the whole, SLF has fluctuated by 0.99% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Sun Life Financial, Inc currently standing at about $36.24 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-08. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.43, with its dividend yield at 3.79%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that SLF’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.75, with the price of SLF currently trading nearly -0.61% and 4.31% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 55.45, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 0.55% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 0.61%. Furthermore, Sun Life Financial, Inc (SLF)’s beta value is 0.89, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.80.
A comparison of Sun Life Financial, Inc (SLF) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. SLF showed an intraday change of 0.05% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 33.96%%.
Data on historical trading for Sun Life Financial, Inc (NYSE:SLF) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.47 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 602.94K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 567.60 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.04% of Sun Life Financial, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 49.19% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 8.78 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 25.83. The stock has risen by 8.02% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the SLF stock heading into the next quarter.
