SLF Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

For dividend yielding stocks, the Dividend Discount Model (DDM) is a common valuation tool; it attempts to extrapolate a fair share price based primarily on the dividend the stock provides relative to a number of other quantiative aspects of its business. As for SLF, the DDM model, as implemented by StockNews, implies a positive return of 23.04% relative to its current price. Some interesting points we thought investors may wish to consider regarding the dividend discount model forecast for Sun Life Financial Inc are:

• SLF's market cap is about 26 billion US dollars -- its dividend yield of 3.79 is greater than 77.38% of its fellow stocks in the large market cap class.
• Regarding its relative worth based on the dividend discount model, SLF's provides a return of 23.04% based on the forecast of the dividend discount model we used relative to its current share price; this is a better return than 73.93% of all stocks we measured with our dividend discount model.
• As other dividend issuers in the Financial Services sector, Sun Life Financial Inc has an equity discount rate lower than 68.9% of them.

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