Sun Life Financial Inc (SLFIF) Dividend Yield (2009 - 2023)
Sun Life Financial's Dividend Yield was 4.21% in Q4 2025, up 3.96 percentage points from 0.25% a year earlier and up 3.89 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Sun Life Financial Inc (SLFIF) Dividend Yield (2009 - 2023) Analysis & Trends
For FY2025, Dividend Yield at Sun Life Financial came in at 4.20%, up 0.12 percentage points from FY2024.
- Dividend Yield shows a five-year change of +0.30 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- In earlier years, Dividend Yield was 4.09% in FY2024 (-0.46 pp), 4.55% in FY2023 (+0.02 pp), 4.53% in FY2022 (+1.05 pp) and 3.47% in FY2021 (-0.43 pp).
- The Q4 2025 figure marks the highest quarterly Dividend Yield since Q2 2024.
- Compared with a year earlier, Dividend Yield was higher in three of the last seven quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -0.89 percentage points.
- The best year-over-year quarter for Dividend Yield over five years was Q4 2025 (a gain of 3.96 percentage points); the worst was Q2 2025 (a drop of 4.69 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, SLFIF's Dividend Yield in the three quarters before Q4 2025 was 0.33% (Q3 2025), 0.22% (Q2 2025) and 0.26% (Q1 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2023 | 4.51% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 3.99% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 3.80% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 4.28% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 4.34% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 4.15% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 3.82% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 3.29% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 3.45% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 3.35% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 3.39% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 3.57% |
| Dec 31, 2020 | 4.11% |
| Sep 30, 2020 | 4.09% |
| Jun 30, 2020 | 4.53% |
| Mar 31, 2020 | 5.40% |
| Dec 31, 2019 | 9.72% |
| Sep 30, 2019 | 2.75% |
| Mar 31, 2017 | 3.48% |
| Dec 31, 2016 | 3.40% |
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Sun Life Financial Inc Dividend Yield API
Pull this series into your own models, spreadsheets and apps with the Business Quant
Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
frequency, period or values and it follows. Swap YOUR_API_KEY for your own key.
https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=dividend-yield&ticker=SLFIF&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "dividend-yield", "ticker": "SLFIF", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=dividend-yield&ticker=SLFIF&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();