Franklin Resources Inc

BEN Financial Asset Management

Franklin Resources Inc’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended September 2025) was $8.8 billion, up 3.45% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 14.3%, EPS grew 106.7%, free cash flow fell 55.7% and total debt rose 28.5%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for five consecutive years, revenue growth for three; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

30.98 0.40 −1.27%
Market cap
$15.9B
P/E
21.1×
Fwd P/E
18.2×
Dividend yield
4.26%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
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Dividend safety
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Franklin Resources Inc (BEN) Debt to equity

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Franklin Resources Inc's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 June 2026 was 1.2×, up 0.3× from fiscal 2025 (0.9×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.1× (fiscal 2019) to 0.9× (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is above the Asset Management industry median of 0.4× and above the Financial sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 0.9× 3.31%
FY2024 0.9× 1.78%
FY2023 0.9× 25.20%
FY2022 0.7× 20.00%
FY2021 0.6× 11.83%
FY2020 0.5× 660.37%
FY2019 0.1× (1.40%)
FY2018 0.1× (15.80%)
FY2017 0.1× (49.01%)
FY2016 0.2× (3.59%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Jun 2026 1.2× 11.05%
Mar 2026 1.1× 8.68%
Dec 2025 1.0× 6.72%
Sep 2025 0.9× 0.82%
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.1× High 0.9×
Ten-year median 0.5×
Current reading's percentile 100

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
SEIC SEI Investments Company compare 0.1×
TPG TPG Inc. compare 0.6×
OWL Blue Owl Capital Inc. compare 0.7×
IVZ Invesco Ltd. compare 0.8×
CRBG Corebridge Financial, Inc. compare 1.0×
ARCC Ares Capital Corporation compare 1.1×
BEN Franklin Resources Inc 1.2×
CG Carlyle Group Inc. compare 1.9×
EQH Equitable Holdings, Inc. compare 8.1×
Asset Management industry median 0.4×
Financial sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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