Yahoo · Oct 24, 2026
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NASDAQ · BEN
Franklin Resources, Inc.
Financial Services · Asset Management
$31.23
Up+$0.24 (+0.77%)
Updated Oct 28, 2026, 12:00 PM
SID Score
6.2/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
58/100
Neutral
- Market cap
- 12.22B
- P/E ratio
- 23.6
- Dividend yield
- 4.10%
- 52-week range
- $22.58 – $36.28
- Volume
- 1.97M
- Avg. volume
- 4.32M
Price performance · BEN
BEN price history
1M range · 21 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
Prices through Oct 27, 2026
BEN closed at $31.23 after 21 trading sessions, down 4.41% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $31.23
- Period change
- -4.41%
- Period low
- $30.53
- Period high
- $32.88
Daily close
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| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $31.24 | $31.495 | $31.125 | $31.23 | 1.97M |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $31.34 | $31.55 | $30.94 | $30.99 | 3.17M |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $31.27 | $31.41 | $30.94 | $31.06 | 4.14M |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $31.23 | $31.93 | $31.10 | $31.52 | 2.72M |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $31.59 | $31.75 | $31.25 | $31.68 | 2.57M |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $30.61 | $31.62 | $30.54 | $31.24 | 2.61M |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $30.98 | $31.03 | $30.68 | $30.71 | 3.85M |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $31.59 | $31.79 | $30.77 | $30.98 | 4.43M |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $30.58 | $31.38 | $30.09 | $31.38 | 3.64M |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $30.82 | $31.12 | $30.135 | $30.53 | 5.06M |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $32.00 | $32.03 | $30.83 | $31.18 | 4.05M |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $32.08 | $32.27 | $31.60 | $31.81 | 3.13M |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $32.40 | $32.48 | $31.655 | $32.00 | 4.16M |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $32.15 | $32.565 | $31.96 | $32.40 | 5.54M |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $32.07 | $32.555 | $31.90 | $32.48 | 4.42M |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $32.98 | $33.075 | $32.42 | $32.44 | 4.85M |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $32.80 | $33.28 | $32.30 | $32.88 | 3.45M |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $32.78 | $33.27 | $32.76 | $32.81 | 5.06M |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $32.05 | $32.50 | $31.555 | $32.50 | 5.3M |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $32.36 | $32.38 | $31.98 | $32.12 | 4.53M |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $32.65 | $32.89 | $32.2204 | $32.67 | 3.33M |
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Company profile
Franklin Resources provides investment services for individual and institutional investors. At the end of July 2025, Franklin had $1.617 trillion in managed assets, composed primarily of equity (41%), fixed-income (27%), multi-asset/balanced (11%) funds, alternatives (16%) and money market funds (5%). Distribution tends to be weighted between retail investors (56% of AUM) and institutional accounts (41%), with high-net-worth clients accounting for the remainder. Franklin is one of the more global of the US-based asset managers we cover, with 31% of its assets under management invested in global/international strategies and just as much sourced from clients domiciled outside the United States.
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- Consensus
- Hold
- Average target
- $26.89
- Implied upside
- —
- Analysts
- 19
| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | Barclays | Equal-Weight | — |
| Oct 12, 2026 | TD Cowen | Buy | — |
| Oct 12, 2026 | JP Morgan | Neutral | — |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Evercore ISI Group | Underperform | — |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Morgan Stanley | Equal-Weight | — |
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Yahoo · Oct 23, 2026
Franklin Templeton Canada Announces ETF Cash Distributions
Franklin Templeton Canada today announced cash distributions for certain ETFs and ETF series of mutual funds available to Canadian investors.
Yahoo · Oct 20, 2026
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XRP ETFs Just Ended a 13-Week Inflow Streak. What Broke It?
After 13 straight weeks of investor confidence, something spooked XRP ETF holders into pulling money out for the first time since July, and the timing points to more than just a routine market dip.
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