Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN) concluded trading on 01/10/24 at a closing price of $29.08, with 3.45 million shares of worth about $100.2 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 2.29% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a loss of about -0.14%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 495.94M shares, out of which, 285.32M shares are available for trading.
A deeper look into what the analysts at Wall Street are thinking about the price target of this stock provides us with the following: 15 analysts are covering the BEN stock and their offered price forecasts bring an average price target of $27.00. Over the next 12 months, analysts forecasted that the stock’s price could jump as high as $32.00 and could fall to a lowest price of $21.00. The stock’s current price level is -7.7% below of average price target set by the analysts, while a dip to estimated low would result in loss of -38.48% for the stock. However, touching the estimated high of $32.00 would mean a gain of 9.13% for the stock.
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According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 29 times over the past 12 months. They bought 1,169,075 shares in 18 of the transactions. In 11 selling transactions, insiders dumped 253,717 shares.
Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN) started trading at $29.20, above $0.08 from concluding price of the previous day. However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 29.40, or with a loss of -0.14%. Stock saw a price change of 2.87% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 13.73%. Year-to-date (YTD), BEN shares are showing a performance of -2.38% which increased to 2.00% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $21.88 but also hit the highest price of $34.37 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Franklin Resources, Inc. shares is 3.38 million. The stock is currently trading 0.40% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 11.84% for SMA50 and it goes to 11.73% higher than SMA200.
Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN) currently have 495.94M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 45.58% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $14.41B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.44. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 16.89, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.72 in the same period. Its PEG reads 6.45 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.99. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for BEN, volatility over the week remained 2.05% while standing at 2.22% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.55 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.59 and it is $2.79 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.49 which is $0.62 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $0.51 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -4.57% while it is estimated to increase by 15.41% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 2.62% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 4.38% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Analysts at 15 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Hold” and assign it a score of 3.73. Out of those 15 Wall Street analysts, 0 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 9 were in favor recommending the stock as a “Hold” and 5 analyst recommended the stock as “Sell”.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Wells Fargo on January 08, 2024 offering an Equal weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $24 and $30 to it.
