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Franklin Resources (Franklin Resources) Net Cash per Share : $-28.27 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Franklin Resources Net Cash per Share?

Net Cash per Share is calculated as Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities minus Total Liabilities minus Minority Interest and then divided by Shares Outstanding (EOP). Franklin Resources's Net Cash per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $-28.27.

The historical rank and industry rank for Franklin Resources's Net Cash per Share or its related term are showing as below:

During the past 13 years, the highest Price-to-Net-Cash Ratio of Franklin Resources was 20.76. The lowest was 4.70. And the median was 7.45.

BEN's Price-to-Net-Cash is not ranked *
in the Asset Management industry.
Industry Median: 6.8
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Net-Cash only.

Franklin Resources Net Cash per Share Historical Data

The historical data trend for Franklin Resources's Net Cash per Share 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 Net Cash per Share Chart

Franklin Resources Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Net Cash per Share
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.67 -15.31 -16.54 -23.63 -27.83

Franklin Resources Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Net Cash per Share Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -26.32 -25.90 -27.85 -27.83 -28.27

Competitive Comparison of Franklin Resources's Net Cash per Share

For the Asset Management subindustry, Franklin Resources's Price-to-Net-Cash, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Net-Cash 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 Price-to-Net-Cash Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Franklin Resources's Price-to-Net-Cash distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Franklin Resources's Price-to-Net-Cash falls into.



Franklin Resources Net Cash per Share Calculation

In the calculation of a company's Net Cash per Share, assets other than cash and short term investments are considered to be worth nothing. But the company has to pay its debt and other liabilities in full. This is an extremely conservative way of valuation. Most companies have negative Net Cash per Share. But sometimes a company's price may be lower than its net-cash.

Franklin Resources's Net Cash per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Net Cash per Share (A: Sep. 2023 )
=(Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities-Total Liabilities-Minority Interest)/Shares Outstanding (EOP)
=(4402.4-16547.3-1657)/495.938
=-27.83

Franklin Resources's Net Cash per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Net Cash per Share (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=(Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities-Total Liabilities-Minority Interest)/Shares Outstanding (EOP)
=(3879.6-16149.7-1714.5)/494.734
=-28.27

* 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.


Franklin Resources  (NYSE:BEN) Net Cash per Share Explanation

Ben Graham invested in situations where the company's stock price was lower than its net-cash. He assigned some value to the company's other current asset. The value is called Net Current Asset Value (NCAV). One research study, covering the years 1970 through 1983 showed that portfolios picked at the beginning of each year, and held for one year, returned 29.4 percent, on average, over the 13-year period, compared to 11.5 percent for the S&P 500 Index. Other studies of Graham's strategy produced similar results.

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Franklin Resources (Franklin Resources) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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