SUN LIFE FINANCIAL INC vs Travelers Companies, Inc., two Insurance stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Sun Life runs Canadian life and wealth books, earning the spread on long-duration float. Travelers writes property and casualty risk, where the combined ratio and reserve discipline set the year. Travelers earns the higher return on equity, 23.77% against Sun Life's 14.84%, and trades cheaper on earnings, 9.77 times versus 17.18. Its 15.54% net margin runs above Sun Life's 9.03%, the two models measured on different scales. On book value they sit near, Travelers at 2.24 times and Sun Life at 2.34. Travelers is the larger house at $71.5B against $43.9B, and pays a slim 0.86% dividend; Sun Life's yield is not listed in these numbers.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | SLF | TRV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $79.94 | $338.86 |
| Market cap | $45.0B | $74.0B |
| Sector | Financial Services | Financial Services |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| P/E | 17.6 | 10.1 |
| P/B | 2.40 | 2.31 |
| P/S | 1.46 | 1.51 |
| EV/EBITDA | — | 380.3 |
| Revenue growth | +18.1% | +4.2% |
| Net margin | 9.0% | 15.5% |
| Return on equity | 14.8% | 23.8% |
| Return on assets | 0.9% | 5.3% |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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