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) Return on invested capital

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Franklin Resources Inc's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 2.27%, up 0.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (1.74%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.22% (fiscal 2024) to 31.5% (fiscal 2018); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is below the Asset Management industry median of 2.97% and below the Financial sector median of 4.85%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 1.74% 0.52
FY2024 1.22% (2.33)
FY2023 3.55% (3.23)
FY2022 6.78% (1.45)
FY2021 8.23% 3.07
FY2020 5.16% (11.77)
FY2019 16.9% (14.56)
FY2018 31.5% 4.71
FY2017 26.8% 2.65
FY2016 24.1% (5.99)

Against its own ten years

Low 1.22% High 31.5%
Ten-year median 8.23%
Current reading's percentile 18

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
SEIC SEI Investments Company compare 19.3%
TPG TPG Inc. compare 7.97%
CRBG Corebridge Financial, Inc. compare 4.59%
CG Carlyle Group Inc. compare 4.40%
OWL Blue Owl Capital Inc. compare 3.63%
ARCC Ares Capital Corporation compare 3.24%
BEN Franklin Resources Inc 2.27%
EQH Equitable Holdings, Inc. compare 0.00%
IVZ Invesco Ltd. compare −1.34%
Asset Management industry median 2.97%
Financial sector median 4.85%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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