Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN): Price and Financial Metrics

BEN POWR Grades

• BEN scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 83.24% of US stocks.
• BEN's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• BEN ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 16th percentile.

BEN Stock Summary

• BEN has a market capitalization of $14,551,564,706 -- more than approximately 84.67% of US stocks.
• Franklin Resources Inc's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.84% of US equities in our set.
• BEN's current price/earnings ratio is 7.5, which is higher than only 15.33% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Franklin Resources Inc are NDSN, IVZ, PHM, HSIC, and RHI.
• Visit BEN's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.franklinresources.com.

BEN Valuation Summary

• BEN's price/sales ratio is 2; this is 66.67% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, BEN's price/sales ratio has gone down 2.8.
• Over the past 243 months, BEN's price/earnings ratio has gone down 8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BEN.

BEN Growth Metrics

The 3 year price growth rate now stands at -11.45%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -27.69%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 41.14%.

BEN's revenue has moved up $2,723,300,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows BEN's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	8,654.4	1,121.8	1,939.1
2021-09-30	8,425.5	1,245.4	1,831.2
2021-06-30	7,871.9	1,114.1	1,244.4
2021-03-31	6,887.1	1,385.8	1,096.4
2020-12-31	6,148.9	1,279.7	793.7
2020-09-30	5,566.5	1,021.4	798.9

BEN's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• BEN has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 27.33% of graded US stocks.
• BEN's asset turnover comes in at 0.364 -- ranking 60th of 444 Trading stocks.
• REG, KRG, and LIVE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with BEN.

The table below shows BEN's key quality metrics over time.