Sun Life Financial Preferred Stock Current Valuation

SLF-PC Preferred Stock  CAD 20.05  0.13  0.65%   
Valuation analysis of Sun Life Financial helps investors to measure Sun Life's intrinsic value by examining its available valuation indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes and income statement patterns.
Fairly Valued
Today
20.05
Please note that Sun Life's price fluctuation is very steady at this time. Calculation of the real value of Sun Life Financial is based on 3 months time horizon. Increasing Sun Life's time horizon generally increases the accuracy of value calculation and significantly improves the predictive power of the methodology used.
Since Sun Life is currently traded on the exchange, buyers and sellers on that exchange determine the market value of Sun Preferred Stock. However, Sun Life's intrinsic value may or may not be the same as its current market price, in which case there is an opportunity to profit from the mispricing, assuming the market price will eventually merge with its intrinsic value.
Historical Market  20.05 Real  20.19 Hype  20.05 Naive  19.91
The real value of Sun Preferred Stock, also known as its intrinsic value, is the underlying worth of Sun Life Financial Company, which is reflected in its stock price. It is based on Sun Life's financial performance, growth prospects, management team, or industry conditions. The intrinsic value of Sun Life's stock can be calculated using various methods such as discounted cash flow analysis, price-to-earnings ratio, or price-to-book ratio. That value may differ from its current market price, which is determined by supply and demand factors such as investor sentiment, market trends, or news.
20.19
Real Value
20.97
Upside
Estimating the potential upside or downside of Sun Life Financial helps investors to forecast how Sun preferred stock's addition to their portfolios will impact the overall performance. We also use other valuation drivers to help us estimate the true value of Sun Life more accurately as focusing exclusively on Sun Life's fundamentals will not take into account other important factors:
Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowerMiddle BandUpper
19.7219.9920.26
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Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
19.2720.0520.83
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Naive
Forecast
LowNext ValueHigh
19.1319.9120.70
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Sun Life Financial Company Current Valuation Analysis

Sun Life's Enterprise Value is a firm valuation proxy that approximates the current market value of a company. It is typically used to determine the takeover or merger price of a firm. Unlike Market Cap, this measure takes into account the entire liquid asset, outstanding debt, and exotic equity instruments that the company has on its balance sheet. When a takeover occurs, the parent company will have to assume the target company's liabilities but will take possession of all cash and cash equivalents.

Enterprise Value

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Market Cap + Debt

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Cash

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Current Sun Life Current Valuation

    
  (73.05 B)  
Most of Sun Life's fundamental indicators, such as Current Valuation, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Sun Life Financial is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Enterprise Value can be a useful tool to compare companies with different capital structures. Long term liability and current cash or cash equivalents can have a huge impact on market valuation of a given company.
Competition

In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Sun Life Financial has a Current Valuation of (73.05 Billion). This is 322.6% lower than that of the Financial Services sector and 263.88% lower than that of the Insurance - Diversified industry. The current valuation for all Canada preferred stocks is significantly higher than that of the company.

Sun Current Valuation Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Sun Life's direct or indirect competition against its Current Valuation to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the preferred stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Sun Life could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Sun Life by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Sun Life is currently under evaluation in current valuation category among its peers.

Sun Fundamentals

About Sun Life Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Sun Life Financial's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Sun Life using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Sun Life Financial based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
Please read more on our fundamental analysis page.

Pair Trading with Sun Life

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Sun Life position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Sun Life will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving together with Sun Preferred Stock

  0.94SLF-PD Sun Life FinancialPairCorr

Moving against Sun Preferred Stock

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Sun Life could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Sun Life when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Sun Life - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling Sun Life Financial to buy it.
The correlation of Sun Life is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Sun Life moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Sun Life Financial moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Sun Life can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
Pair CorrelationCorrelation Matching

Other Information on Investing in Sun Preferred Stock

Sun Life financial ratios help investors to determine whether Sun Preferred Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Sun with respect to the benefits of owning Sun Life security.