Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF) completed acquisition of majority stake in BentallGreenOak

Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF) announced the completion of its acquisition of a majority stake in BentallGreenOak.  Leveraging the deep and successful history of both firms, BentallGreenOak will form the real estate pillar of our recently established institutional asset management business, SLC Management, a top 100 global asset management firm1.

The insider ownership percentage is the key indicator, can be used by investors, to measure the outlook of senior management has on their company. Insider ownership for the SLF is 0.04%. Institutional ownership refers to the ownership stake in a company that is held by large financial organizations, pension funds or endowments. The Institutional ownership for the SLF is 54.40%.

Insider trading is the buying or selling of any publicly traded company’s stock and this can be done by someone who has non-public, material information about that SLF. Insider trading can be illegal or legal depending on when the insider makes the trade. It is illegal when the material information is still non-public. The insider transactions of the company (6-month change in insider ownerships) for the Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF) is 0.00%.

Institutional ownership is the amount of a Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF)’s available stock owned by mutual or pension funds, insurance companies, investment firms, private foundations, endowments or other large entities that actually manage the funds on the behalf of others, so its an interesting element for the traders to note it, and the Institutional ownership for the SLF is 3.48%.

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a Financial sector firm, Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF) stock advanced 0.89% on Monday and when day-trade ended the stock finally concluded at $41.73 and number of shares that changed hands during the day are 197537. The number of shares SLF stock currently held by all its shareholders are 597.00 and floated shares, the number of shares are available for trading in an open market on last trading day are 594.24. The average volume of shares for 3 months is 513.95 and SLF stock value has moved between $31.38 – 41.73 in last one year.

The Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF)’s latest earnings date is 8/7/2019. The Gross margin is the difference between the revenue and the cost of goods sold (COGS), divided by revenue. In other words, Gross Margin is a percentage value, while Gross Profit is a monetary value. The profit margin is 7.60% and the stock has gained 25.73% in 2019 to date.

U.S. traded shares of Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF)’s monthly stock performance is 7.39%, the quarterly performance is 6.59%, the half year performance is calculated as 28.08%. The yearly performance of SLF is 5.81%.

The higher the volatility, the riskier the security. For example, when the stock market rises and falls more than one percent over a sustained period of time, it is called a “volatile” market, if the stock price stays relatively stable, the security has low volatility. The Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF) weekly volatility is measured as 0.98% and monthly volatility measured as 1.32%.

Return on assets (ROA) is a main indicator of how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. SLF return on assets is 0.90%, the return on equity (ROE) of the Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF) is 11.70%, while the most important return on investment is calculates as a percentage and is typically used for personal financial decisions, and SLF return on investment is 10.20%.

The price to earnings ratio is 13.35, price to sales ratio is 1.01, and price to book ratio is 1.52, price to cash per share ration is 6.01.

Analysts mean target price for Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF) is $45.65 while analysts mean recommendation is 1.50. The current share price indicates that stock is -0.07% away from its one year high and is moving 32.52% ahead of its 52-week low. SLF’s distance from 20 day simple moving average is 3.73% and distance from 50-Day simple moving average is 3.57%.