NYSE:BEN - Franklin Resources Stock Price, Forecast & News

Franklin Resources trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BEN."

Franklin Resources announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 12th. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 31st will be given a dividend of $0.27 per share on Friday, January 10th. This represents a $1.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.20%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 30th. This is a positive change from Franklin Resources's previous quarterly dividend of $0.26. View Franklin Resources' Dividend History.

Franklin Resources declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase program on Thursday, April 12th 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback 80,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE:BEN) issued its earnings results on Friday, October, 25th. The closed-end fund reported $0.61 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.64 by $0.03. The closed-end fund earned $1.45 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.46 billion. Franklin Resources had a return on equity of 12.28% and a net margin of 20.71%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 4.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.96 EPS. View Franklin Resources' Earnings History.

Franklin Resources is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 29th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Franklin Resources.

11 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Franklin Resources' shares. Their forecasts range from $16.00 to $37.00. On average, they anticipate Franklin Resources' share price to reach $27.70 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Franklin Resources.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Franklin Resources in the last year. There are currently 7 sell ratings and 4 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Sell." View Analyst Ratings for Franklin Resources.

News stories about BEN stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Franklin Resources earned a news sentiment score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the closed-end fund a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Franklin Resources.

Franklin Resources saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 28,050,000 shares, an increase of 5.8% from the December 15th total of 26,510,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,290,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 8.5 days. Currently, 10.1% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Franklin Resources' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Franklin Resources include BlackRock (BLK), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), State Street (STT), Northern Trust (NTRS), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), SEI Investments (SEIC), Invesco (IVZ), Ares Capital (ARCC), Eaton Vance (EV), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Federated Investors (FII), Legg Mason (LM), Cohen & Steers (CNS) and Main Street Capital (MAIN).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Franklin Resources investors own include AT&T (T), Exxon Mobil (XOM), AbbVie (ABBV), Procter & Gamble (PG), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Pfizer (PFE), Verizon Communications (VZ), Walmart (WMT) and Chevron (CVX).

Franklin Resources' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.23%), Foundation Resource Management Inc. (0.08%), O Keefe Stevens Advisory Inc. (0.04%), O Keefe Stevens Advisory Inc. (0.03%), RK Asset Management LLC (0.03%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%). Company insiders that own Franklin Resources stock include Craig Steven Tyle, Jed A Plafker and Rupert H Johnson Jr. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Franklin Resources.

BEN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Foundation Resource Management Inc., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, O Keefe Stevens Advisory Inc., O Keefe Stevens Advisory Inc., Huntington National Bank and Inlet Private Wealth LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Franklin Resources.

BEN stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Alpine Global Management LLC, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, New England Research & Management Inc., Uncommon Cents Investing LLC, LFA Lugano Financial Advisors SA, DNB Asset Management AS and Assenagon Asset Management S.A.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Franklin Resources.

Shares of BEN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BEN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $25.74.

Franklin Resources has a market capitalization of $12.85 billion and generates $5.77 billion in revenue each year. The closed-end fund earns $1.20 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.52 on an earnings per share basis. Franklin Resources employs 9,600 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Franklin Resources.

The official website for Franklin Resources is http://www.franklinresources.com/.

Franklin Resources' mailing address is ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA, 94403. The closed-end fund can be reached via phone at 650-312-2000 or via email at [email protected]