SLF Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Sun Life Financial | NYSE:SLF)

Sun Life Financial is one of the Big Three Canadian life insurers. The Canadian business contributed around 35% of its 2025 adjusted earnings. In that segment, the firm provides health, life insurance, and annuity products to individual and group customers. Its US business is mostly group health and contributed about 17% of the firm's adjusted earnings in 2025. Sun Life also offers life insurance and wealth products in several Asian markets with a strong presence in Hong Kong and the Philippines. The Asia segment contributed around 18% of adjusted 2024 earnings. Its asset management business had around CAD 1.2 trillion total assets under management or administration at the end of 2025 and represents around 30% of the firm's earnings.

Sun Life Financial trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SLF.

As of July 8, 2026, SLF stock price declined to $79.39 with 365,699 million shares trading.

SLF has a beta of 0.35, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SLF has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SLF has a market cap of $43.97 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Sun Life Financial reported $6 billion in Revenue and $1.38 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-537 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.03.

In the last 3 years, SLF traded as high as $80.36 and as low as $44.57.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SLF belongs to (by Net Assets): FVD, DFIC, DFAI, DFAX, DFSI.

SLF has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +31.6% while the SPY ETF gained +21.3%. SLF has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +25.1% and +2.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned +13.4% and +1.6%, respectively.

SLF support price is $79.13 and resistance is $80.67 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that SLF shares will trade within this expected range on the day.