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Franklin Resources (Franklin Resources) Profitability Rank : 8 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Franklin Resources Profitability Rank?

Franklin Resources has the Profitability Rank of 8. It has a higher profitability and may stay that way.

GuruFocus Profitability Rank ranks how profitable a company is and how likely the company's business will stay that way. It is based on these factors:

1. Operating Margin %
2. Piotroski F-Score
3. Trend of the Operating Margin % (5-year average). The company with an uptrend profit margin has a higher rank.
4. Consistency of the profitability
5. Predictability Rank

Franklin Resources's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 17.49%. As of today, Franklin Resources's Piotroski F-Score is 5.


Competitive Comparison of Franklin Resources's Profitability Rank

For the Asset Management subindustry, Franklin Resources's Profitability Rank, along with its competitors' market caps and Profitability Rank 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 Profitability Rank Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Franklin Resources's Profitability Rank distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Franklin Resources's Profitability Rank falls into.



Franklin Resources Profitability Rank Calculation

GuruFocus Profitability Rank ranks how profitable a company is and how likely the company's business will stay that way.

The maximum rank is 10. A rank of 7 or higher means a higher profitability and may stay that way. A rank of 3 or lower indicates that the company has had trouble to make a profit.

Franklin Resources has the Profitability Rank of 8. It has a higher profitability and may stay that way.

Profitability Rank is not directly related to the Financial Strength. But if a company is consistently profitable, its financial strength will be stronger.

Profitability Rank is based on these factors:

1. Operating Margin %

Operating Margin % - also known as operating income margin, operating profit margin and return on sales (ROS) - is the ratio of Operating Income divided by net sales or Revenue, usually presented in percent.

Franklin Resources's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %=Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 ) / Revenue (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=348.2 / 1991.1
=17.49 %

* 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.

2. Piotroski F-Score

The zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 8 or 9
Bad or low score = 0 or 1

Franklin Resources has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

3. Trend of the Operating Margin % (5-year average). The company with an uptrend profit margin has a higher rank.

Warning Sign:

Franklin Resources Inc operating margin has been in a 5-year decline. The average rate of decline per year is -12.4%.

4. Consistency of the profitability

5. Predictability Rank


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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