The Week That Was, The Week Ahead: Macro & Markets, Dec. 28
TipRanks (Sun, 28-Dec 4:16 AM ET)
Franklin Resources, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend and Addition to Stock Repurchase Program
Business Wire (Wed, 17-Dec 4:13 PM ET)
Lexington Partners Expands Global Presence with Opening of Abu Dhabi Office
PRNewswire (Tue, 16-Dec 12:01 AM ET)
Franklin Templeton Launches the Franklin Small Cap Enhanced ETF (FSML)
Business Wire (Thu, 11-Dec 9:52 AM ET)
Andres Rodriguez Joins Fiduciary Trust International's Coral Gables Office as Wealth Director
Business Wire (Wed, 10-Dec 9:15 AM ET)
Business Wire (Tue, 9-Dec 8:42 AM ET)
Franklin Templeton Announces Plan to Liquidate ClearBridge Sustainable Infrastructure ETF
Business Wire (Fri, 5-Dec 4:30 PM ET)
Franklin Resources, Inc. Announces Preliminary Month-End Assets Under Management
Business Wire (Wed, 3-Dec 5:01 PM ET)
Franklin Templeton Expands Its Digital Asset ETP Suite With Launch of Franklin Solana ETF (SOEZ)
Business Wire (Wed, 3-Dec 11:47 AM ET)
Franklin Templeton Expands Digital Asset Exposure in Franklin Crypto Index ETF (EZPZ)
Business Wire (Tue, 2-Dec 10:56 AM ET)
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.
Franklin Resources trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol BEN.
As of December 29, 2025, BEN stock price climbed to $24.38 with 2,944,335 million shares trading.
BEN has a beta of 0.99, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BEN has a correlation of 0.41 to the broad based SPY ETF.
BEN has a market cap of $12.70 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Franklin Resources reported $2 billion in Revenue and $.67 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $189 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.09.
In the last 3 years, BEN traded as high as $34.37 and as low as $16.25.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that BEN belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, NOBL, VB, DVY.
BEN has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +22.4% while the SPY ETF gained +15.6%. BEN has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +6.1% and +3.8%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.2% and +1.2%, respectively.
BEN support price is $23.83 and resistance is $24.55 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BEN shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
