Franklin Resources, Inc (BEN) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $21.61, with 5.21 million shares of worth about $112.59 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -0.87% during that period and on May 22, 2025 the price remained unchanged. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 525.40M shares, out of which, 282.95M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -2.57% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 17.51%. Year-to-date (YTD), BEN shares are showing a performance of 6.51% which decreased to -9.73% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $16.25 but also hit the highest price of $24.36 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Franklin Resources, Inc shares is 4.76 million. The stock is currently trading 4.52% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 10.75% for SMA50 and it goes to 5.97% higher than SMA200.
Franklin Resources, Inc (NYSE: BEN) currently have 525.40M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 48.30% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $11.36B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.46. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 31.30, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.69 in the same period. Its PEG reads 8.07 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.07. 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 1.17% while standing at 1.90% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -14.81% while it is estimated to increase by 11.13% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 3.88% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -18.46% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
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 TD Cowen on May 14, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $27 to it. Coverage by Goldman stated Franklin Resources, Inc (BEN) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on January 06, 2025, suggesting a price target of $22 for the stock. On September 12, 2024, Wells Fargo Initiated their recommendations, while on August 27, 2024, Barclays Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $20. Stock get an Equal weight rating from Wells Fargo on January 08, 2024.
