Sun Life Financial Inc (SLFIF) Return on Equity [ROE] (2009 - 2026)
Sun Life Financial (SLFIF) reported Return on Equity [ROE] of 13.62% for Q2 2026, down 16.52 percentage points from 30.13% a year earlier but up 0.77 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Sun Life Financial Inc (SLFIF) Return on Equity [ROE] (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For FY2025, Sun Life Financial posted Return on Equity [ROE] of 14.65%, up 8.19 percentage points from FY2024.
- Return on Equity [ROE] has a five-year change of +3.62 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- By year, Return on Equity [ROE] came in at 6.46% in FY2024 (+1.59 pp), 4.88% in FY2023 (-1.84 pp), 6.72% in FY2022 (-12.16 pp) and 18.88% in FY2021 (+7.85 pp).
- Five-year quarterly Return on Equity [ROE] spans a low of 6.96% in Q1 2023 and a high of 30.13% in Q2 2025.
- Year over year, Return on Equity [ROE] has now declined in each of the last three quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +0.10 percentage points over the last eight quarters.
- The high point for year-over-year Return on Equity [ROE] in five years was Q1 2025 (a gain of 15.94 percentage points); the low point was Q1 2026 (a drop of 16.65 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, the three quarters before Q2 2026 came in at 12.85% (Q1 2026), 14.57% (Q4 2025) and 28.54% (Q3 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 13.91% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 13.08% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 14.79% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 12.30% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 13.47% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 13.49% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 13.09% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 15.63% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 14.13% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 14.36% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 14.51% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 14.56% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 12.98% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 13.82% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 12.58% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 12.71% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 14.53% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 17.22% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 17.94% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 14.57% |
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Sun Life Financial Inc Return on Equity [ROE] API
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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=return-on-equity-%5Broe%5D&ticker=SLFIF&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "return-on-equity-[roe]", "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=return-on-equity-%5Broe%5D&ticker=SLFIF&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();