Sun Life Financial Inc. (SLF)

NYSE: SLF · Life Insurance · Toronto · filing with the SEC since 2000

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Grade5.6

◀ Past 5.6● Present 6.6▶ Future 4.2

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The grade of Sun Life Financial Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense

Headline grade

5.6/10

◀ Past5.640% of the headline

● Present6.635% of the headline

▶ Future4.225% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.6/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed

6.1/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 61st percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Sun Life Financial Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed

4.7/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+4.3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 47th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Sun Life Financial Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from CAD 29 billion in fiscal 2016 to CAD 42 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.3% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 87% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2022; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

revenue growth over the filed span4.3%top 36% of its family
the share of years revenue rosebottom 31% of its family
the share of filed years with a profittop 14% of its family
the deepest fall from a revenue peak86.7%bottom 8% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed

5.6/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.3% a year. 79% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 45% of this tense · 56th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Sun Life Financial Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 79% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

the share count over the yearsbottom 26% of its family
cash returned against operating cash flowtop 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.6/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed

5.7/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 15%: 15¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 94%: owes 94¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 57th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Sun Life Financial Inc. earned about 15 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 94 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

what it owes per dollar of assetstop 42% of its family
return on equitytop 19% of its family
the share count against the year beforebottom 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed

8.6/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 14% of 18 in its family; net margin 9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 86th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Sun Life Financial Inc.'s standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of CAD 42 billion in fiscal 2025 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of 9% ranks in the top 25%; revenue growth of 93.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 3% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

net margin9.0%top 25% of its family
three-year revenue growth93.6%top 3% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate

5.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.5/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate: It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 13 members with one.
What the record cannot read: It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read.
How it was reasoned: family median, 13 readings behind it.
Confidence: 20 of 100
What would change it: Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Sun Life Financial Inc.'s leadership is put at 5.5 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 13 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.2/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed

3.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 32% of 16 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 16 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Sun Life Financial Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of CAD 9.6 billion against debt of CAD 8.2 billion leaves 0.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 42% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6.3% of revenue (bottom 22%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

cash less debt against assets0.4%bottom 42% of its family
cash from operations less capital spending against revenue6.3%bottom 22% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed

7.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 30% of 18 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 70th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Sun Life Financial Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 93.6% a year over the last three filed years against 4.3% over all 10, speeding up (top 3% of its family); the newest year grew 8% (top 25%); capital spending grew 15.7% a year (bottom 39%) (its annual reports). Sun Life Financial Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

three-year growth against the whole span+89.3 points a yeartop 3% of its family
the newest year's revenue growth8.0%top 25% of its family
three-year growth of capital spending15.7%bottom 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed

2.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 25% of 18 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Sun Life Financial Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of CAD 42 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 58.3% below the CAD 101 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 3% of its family); net income of CAD 3.8 billion against a prior three-year average of CAD 3.3 billion (top 42%); a net margin of 9% against 23.5% before (bottom 14%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

revenue against the prior three years' pace-58.3%bottom 3% of its family
net income against the prior three years' average+15%top 42% of its family
net margin against its prior average-14.4 pointsbottom 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton SLF · research, not advice