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Sun Life Financial Inc. dividends

Sun Life Financial paid CAD 3.52 per ordinary share for FY2025. The dividend per share has gone up every year since FY2016, as far back as our record goes. Figures are in Canadian dollars.

Dividend per share, FY2025CAD 3.52per ordinary share
Cash paid out, FY2025CAD 2.1Bin Canadian dollars
Cash paid over market value3.63%latest fiscal year, today's value
Rises in a rowEvery yearsince FY2016, as far back as our record goes
Paid out of profit58%FY2025, 78% of free cash flow
New to this? How to read this page
  1. Dividend per share is the cash a company pays for each share, added up for each fiscal year.
  2. A company listed abroad files one annual report a year with the SEC. Its figures here are in Canadian dollars, per ordinary share; one US-listed share stands for one ordinary share, as that report states them.
  3. Payout is the share of profit, or of free cash flow, paid out. Below 100% the dividend is covered; above it the company paid more than it made that year.
  4. A dividend that grows year after year is often a sign of a steady business.

Dividend per share

CAD, per ordinary share

The dividend went from CAD 1.62 in FY2016 to CAD 3.52 in FY2025, per ordinary share, up 9.9% a year over the last five.

Each column is the dividend per ordinary share for one fiscal year, in Canadian dollars, as the annual report states it. Hover or tap for the change on the year before.

Cash paid to shareholders

CAD

Sun Life Financial paid CAD 2.1B in dividends in FY2025, against CAD 1.1B in FY2016.

The dividends Sun Life Financial paid in cash each fiscal year, from its cash flow statement, in Canadian dollars.

Is the dividend covered?

FY2016 to FY2025

In FY2025 Sun Life Financial earned CAD 6.15 per ordinary share and paid CAD 3.52: the dividend took 57% of profit.

Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share

Three columns a year on one scale, in Canadian dollars per ordinary share: what the company earned, what cash it had left after investing, and what it paid out.

How much of earnings it pays out

share of each year

The dividend stayed below the year's profit every year shown; in FY2025 it took 58% of profit.

Of net profitOf free cash flow

The share of each year's net profit (blue) and free cash flow (green) paid as dividends, both in the company's own currency. The dashed line is 100%: above it, the company paid more than it made that year.

How it compares

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    Every year as a table

    Dividends by fiscal year

    Fiscal yearDividend per shareDividends paidOf net profitOf free cash flow
    FY2025CAD 3.52CAD 2,064 million58%78%
    FY2024CAD 3.24CAD 1,962 million63%82%
    FY2023CAD 3.00CAD 1,882 million60%35%
    FY2022CAD 2.76CAD 1,671 million57%n/a
    FY2021CAD 2.31CAD 1,428 million35%n/a
    FY2020CAD 2.20CAD 1,360 million54%19%
    FY2019CAD 2.10CAD 1,318 million49%56%
    FY2018CAD 1.905CAD 1,227 million47%33%
    FY2017CAD 1.745CAD 1,155 million52%64%
    FY2016CAD 1.62CAD 1,074 million42%30%
    Dividend per share as each annual report states it, beside the cash paid to shareholders that year and that cash over net profit and free cash flow.
    Read moreAbove 100%, the company paid out more than its profit or free cash flow that year.