Currently, there are 495.94M common shares owned by the public and among those 282.63M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -1.72% and -2.44% over the past three months. BEN shares are trading -23.43% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -22.70% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $21.57 and touched a high of $30.32 over the same period. BEN has an average intraday trading volume of 3.68 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -0.58%, -0.77%, and -9.78% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN) shares accounts for 44.95% of the company’s 495.94M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $11.93B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.45. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 14.05, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.62. The company has a PEG of 2.58 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.06. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.52% over the week and 2.37% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -7.88%, and 11.86% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 5.45% over the next five years, compared to 4.38% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the BEN, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Wells Fargo stated their Equal Weight rating for the stock in a research note on January 08, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $24-$30. TD Cowen coverage for the Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN) stock in a research note released on January 04, 2024 offered a Market Perform rating with a price target of $32. BMO Capital Markets was of a view on July 10, 2023 that the stock is Market Perform, while Wells Fargo gave the stock Underweight rating on December 15, 2022, issuing a price target of $26. Credit Suisse on their part issued Neutral rating on October 19, 2022.
