Currently, there are 525.40M common shares owned by the public and among those 282.95M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.14% and 6.86% over the past three months. BEN shares are trading 6.65% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -6.20% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $16.25 and touched a high of $24.36 over the same period. BEN has an average intraday trading volume of 4.90 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 0.97%, 9.71%, and 6.12% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Franklin Resources, Inc (NYSE: BEN) shares accounts for 48.31% of the company’s 525.40M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $11.37B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.47. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 31.34, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.69. The company has a PEG of 8.08 and a Quick Ratio of 1.95 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.07. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.43% over the week and 2.13% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -14.81%, and 11.13% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 3.88% over the next five years, compared to -18.46% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the BEN, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. TD Cowen stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on May 14, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $27. Goldman coverage for the Franklin Resources, Inc (BEN) stock in a research note released on January 06, 2025 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $22. Wells Fargo was of a view on September 12, 2024 that the stock is Equal Weight, while Barclays gave the stock Underweight rating on August 27, 2024, issuing a price target of $20. Wells Fargo on their part issued Equal Weight rating on January 08, 2024.
