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Franklin Templeton BEN
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 12% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well above our fair value estimate, 4% under its Market Value.
- Fair value est.
- $7.11−78%
- Market Value
- $33.10price −4%
- Off 52-wk high
- −12%
- Risk vs market
- Above marketbeta 1.20
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $31.64
- Fair value est.base case$7.11−77.5%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$21.18−33.1%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$31.64you are here
- Market Valueavg paid since Jul 31$33.10+4.6%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$35.77+13.1%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 3.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.0%; bull = 8.5% and 5.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is above even the bull case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, BEN’s free cash flow would need to grow about 31% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much BEN moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Swings more than the market, and its own price swings are 2.1× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 1.20
- Volatility
- 28% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.56
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.42
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
Balance sheetNet cash of $1.4B: cash and short-term investments exceed debt (Jun 30, 2026).
Cash returnsDividend yield of 4.3% ($694M paid over 12 months, 91% of earnings).
Balance sheetPaid down debt: $2.4B at FY2025, 23% less than at FY2023.
Balance sheetDebt / equity of 0.2×, below the 0.8× median for the 22 Finance companies we cover.
ValuationTrades 4.4% below its Market Value of $33.10, the average price paid since the Jul 31 filing.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $7.11, 78% below the price.
Cash returnsFree cash flow fell 84% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to 6.9% in FY2025 from 14.0% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
ProfitabilityReturn on equity is only 6% over the last 12 months.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: no positive free cash flow; ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Franklin Templeton in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Investment Managers
All fundamentals
P/E 21.5 · FCF yield 1.4% · ROE 6%
Valuation
- P/E
- 21.5×Finance median 13.5×
- Price / FCF
- 70.5×
- FCF yield
- 1.4%
- EV / EBITDA
- 14.6×
- Price / sales
- 1.75×
- Price / book
- 1.39×
- Market cap
- $16.3Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $15.0B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $9.3B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +7.9%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +2.0%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $1.47
- EPS growth, last FY
- +7.1%
- Net income, 12 months
- $759M
- Net income growth
- +180%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/agross profit isn't reported (common for service and financial companies)
- Operating margin
- 9.7%
- Net margin
- 8.1%
- FCF margin
- 2.5%
- Return on equity
- 6%
- Return on invested capital
- 7%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $3.8B
- Total debt
- $2.4B
- Net cash
- $1.4B
- Debt / equity
- 0.20×
- Interest coverage
- 10.2×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $232M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −84%
- Dividend yield
- 4.25%$694M paid
- Payout ratio
- 91%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $512M3.1% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −0.1%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $196M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Franklin Templeton’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $7.11 · MV $33.10
Assumes 3.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 2.0% a year FY22–FY25; floored at 3%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $0.45 a share (trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Jul 31, 2026.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 47 · 5 days +1.9%
The business
FCF $-3.0B · Sales +14%
- Free cash flow, 12 months−$3.0B
- Free-cash-flow yield−18.2%
- Free-cash-flow margin−32%
- Gross margin38%
- Operating margin13%
- Return on invested capital8%
- Return on equity8%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+14%
- Net debt / EBITDA0.5×
Next report
Nov 6
- DateFri Nov 6, before the open
- Consensus EPS$0.78
- Year-ago EPS$0.67
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
BEN is outside our quality screen
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