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Franklin Resources (Franklin Resources) Mohanram G-Score : 5 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Franklin Resources Mohanram G-Score?

Mohanram G-Score is a financial indicator developed by professor Partha Mohanram to help investors find the best investment opportunities in the growth stocks. Companies have higher G-score tends to generate higher return. According to his study, the best growth stocks that have a G-Score greater than 6 tend to beat the market, while those with a G-Score lower than 1 tend to have negative absolute returns.

Thus, the zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 6, 7, 8
Bad or low score = 0, 1

Franklin Resources has an G-score of 5.

The historical rank and industry rank for Franklin Resources's Mohanram G-Score or its related term are showing as below:

BEN' s Mohanram G-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3   Med: 5   Max: 6
Current: 5

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski G-score of Franklin Resources was 6. The lowest was 3. And the median was 5.


Franklin Resources Mohanram G-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Franklin Resources's Mohanram G-Score can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Franklin Resources Mohanram G-Score Chart

Franklin Resources Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Mohanram G-Score
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Franklin Resources Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Franklin Resources's Mohanram G-Score

For the Asset Management subindustry, Franklin Resources's Mohanram G-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Mohanram G-Score data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Franklin Resources's Mohanram G-Score Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Franklin Resources's Mohanram G-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Franklin Resources's Mohanram G-Score falls into.



Franklin Resources Mohanram G-Score Calculation

The calculation of the Mohanram G-score consists of eight criteria. Assign one point for each criterion met, then add up all the points to get the G-Score.

Profitability

Question 1. Return on Assets (ROA)

ROA % is calculated as Net Income divided by its average Total Assets over a certain period of time. It measures how well a company uses its asset to generate earnings.

Score 1 if ROA > ROA Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 2. Cash ROA

Cash ROA equals to Cash Flow from Operations divided by average Total Assets. It measures how well a company uses its asset to generate cash.

Score 1 if Cash ROA > Cash ROA Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 3. CFO and Net Income

Score 1 if CFO > Net Income, 0 otherwise.

Earnings Predictability

Question 4. Earnings Variability

Earnings Variability is measured as the variance of a firm's ROA in the past five years.

Score 1 if Earnings Variability < Earnings Variability Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 5. Sales Growth Variability

Sales Growth Variability is measured as the 5-year variance in sales growth.

Score 1 if Sales Growth Variability < Sales Growth Variability Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Accounting Conservatism

Question 6. Research & Development Intensity

Research & Development Intensity is calcualted by Research & Development divided by the beginning Total Assets.

Score 1 if Research & Development Intensity > Research & Development Intensity Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 7. CAPEX Intensity

CAPEX Intensity is calcualted by Capital Expenditure divided by the beginning Total Assets.

Score 1 if CAPEX Intensity > CAPEX Intensity Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 8. Advertising Expenditure Intensity

Advertising Expenditure Intensity is calcualted by Advertising Expenditure divided by the beginning Total Assets. Note that Advertising Expenditure is not reported as a seperate line item for many companies, thus Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is used in this calculation.

Score 1 if Advertising Expenditure Intensity > Advertising Expenditure Intensity Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

* Note that all the Industry Median used for comparison in his original research, are substituted with Sector Median due to the limitation of data within certain countries.

Good or high score = 6, 7, 8
Bad or low score = 0, 1

Franklin Resources has an G-score of 5.

Franklin Resources  (NYSE:BEN) Mohanram G-Score Explanation

Partha Mohanram is the John H. Watson Chair in Value Investing at Rotman and the Acting Vice-Dean of Research Strategy and Resources.

In 2000, he wrote a research paper called "Separating Winners from Losers Among Low Book-to-Market Stocks Using Financial Statement Analysis".

This paper tests whether a strategy based on financial statement analysis of low book-to-market (growth) stocks is successful in differentiating between winners and losers in terms of future stock performance. Based on the research, a strategy based on buying high G-score (6, 7 or 8) firms and shorting low G-score (0 or 1) firms consistently earns significant excess returns. Further, the results do not support a risk based explanation for the book-to-market effect as the strategy returns positive returns in all years, and firms that ex-ante appear less risky have better future returns.

To conclude, one can use a modified fundamental analysis strategy (G-score) to identify mispricing and earn substantial abnormal returns.


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Franklin Resources (Franklin Resources) Business Description

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Address
One Franklin Parkway, San Mateo, CA, USA, 94403
Franklin Resources provides investment services for individual and institutional investors. At the end of October 2023, Franklin had $1.335 trillion in managed assets, composed primarily of equity (31%), fixed-income (35%), multi-asset/balanced (11%) funds, alternatives (19%) and money market funds (4%). Distribution tends to be weighted equally between retail investors (50% of AUM) and institutional accounts (48%), with high-net-worth clients accounting for the remainder. Franklin is one of the more global of the U.S.-based asset managers we cover, with more than a third of its assets under management invested in global/international strategies and 29% of managed assets sourced from clients domiciled outside the United States.
Executives
Alok Sethi officer: Reg. S-K Executive Officer ONE FRANKLING PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Mariann H Byerwalter director C/O FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC., ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY 920/2, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Terrence Murphy officer: Section 16 Officer CITIGROUP ASSET MANAGEMENT, 300 FIRST STAMFORD PLACE, 4TH FLOOR, STAMFORD CT 06902
Jennifer M Johnson officer: Senior Vice President C/O FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC., ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA 94403-1906
Jed A. Plafker officer: Reg. S-K Executive Officer ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Thomas C Merchant officer: EVP, General Counsel LEGG MASON, INC., 100 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE, BALTIMORE MD 21202
Gwen L Shaneyfelt officer: Chief Accounting Officer ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Karen Matsushima King director C/O FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC., ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA 94403
John Y Kim director 51 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10010
John W Thiel director C/O FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC., ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Alexander S Friedman director C/O FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC., ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Adam Benjamin Spector officer: EVP, Global Advisory Services 620 EIGHTH AVENUE, 49TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10018
Craig Steven Tyle officer: Exec VP and General Counsel ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA 94403-1906
Anthony Noto director C/O SOFI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 234 1ST STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Johnson Rupert H Jr director, 10 percent owner, officer: Vice Chairman C/O FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC, ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA 94403

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