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Company snapshot — Sun Life Financial Inc.

SLF.TO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Sun Life provides life and health insurance, wealth products and asset management to individuals and institutions across Canada, the United States and several Asian markets. It sells term and permanent life cover, health plans covering drugs, dental and vision, critical illness and disability insurance, alongside mutual funds, annuities and pension products. The company is headquartered in Toronto.
Where it sits in the stack
Sun Life carries no Closelook index seat; it sits in the diary's Financial Services sleeve for Canada, alongside the country's large insurers and asset managers. Its business supplies protection and savings products rather than any layer of the AI build-out, so the diary tracks it purely as a domestic financial name.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Financial Services names based in Canada, including Manulife, Great-West Lifeco, Power Corporation and the major banks such as Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Nova Scotia; Manulife is the comparison the market draws most often.
Why Closelook tracks it
Sun Life holds no Rubin, Halo or other index seat in the diary and has not drawn a quote count so far. It does carry a Closelook score, where capital allocation reads as the strongest module and cash quality as the weakest.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the strength in capital allocation persists while the cash-quality module stays weak, since that gap is the read most likely to shift the score.

Sun Life Financial Inc. (SLF.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada, classified under Financial Services.

The Closelook company score reads 58/100 composite (momentum 78, quality 51, valuation 67) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for SLF.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Insurance - Diversified · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Insurance - Diversified

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against SLF.TO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.30%, quarterly · buybacks 1.71 bn CAD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What SLF.TO pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.76 CAD per share · a 3.30% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +44.6% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.60 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 0.96 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-26
  • By calendar year 2025: 3.52 CAD (partial) · 2026: 2.84 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-02-26
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 2.06 bn CAD 49% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 1.71 bn CAD 2.7% of today's market value
  • Share count −2.7% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 3.77 bn CAD · 142% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Sun Life Financial Inc. (SLF.TO)?

Sun Life Financial Inc. trades as SLF.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) and is classified under Financial Services in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is SLF.TO in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Sun Life Financial Inc. is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Sun Life Financial Inc.'s Closelook composite score?

58 out of 100, with momentum 78, quality 51 and valuation 67 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does SLF.TO trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +1.7% vs the 50-day and +18% vs the 200-day average, 3.5% below the 52-week high and +46.8% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Sun Life Financial Inc. do?

Sun Life provides life and health insurance, wealth products and asset management to individuals and institutions across Canada, the United States and several Asian markets. It sells term and permanent life cover, health plans covering drugs, dental and vision, critical illness and disability insurance, alongside mutual funds, annuities and pension products. The company is headquartered in Toronto. Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Financial Services names based in Canada, including Manulife, Great-West Lifeco, Power Corporation and the major banks such as Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Nova Scotia; Manulife is the comparison the market draws most often.

Where does Sun Life Financial Inc. sit in the AI build-out?

Sun Life carries no Closelook index seat; it sits in the diary's Financial Services sleeve for Canada, alongside the country's large insurers and asset managers. Its business supplies protection and savings products rather than any layer of the AI build-out, so the diary tracks it purely as a domestic financial name. Sun Life holds no Rubin, Halo or other index seat in the diary and has not drawn a quote count so far. It does carry a Closelook score, where capital allocation reads as the strongest module and cash quality as the weakest.

Does Sun Life Financial Inc. pay a dividend?

Sun Life Financial Inc. has paid 3.76 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 3.30% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.96 CAD on 2026-08-26. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 2.06 bn CAD in dividends and bought back 1.71 bn CAD of its own shares, 142% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 2.7% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for SLF.TO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Insurance - Diversified, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.