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Franklin Resources (BEN) Competitors

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BEN vs. TROW, VCTR, VRTS, AB, BLK, CNS, IVZ, LAZ, AMP, and STT

Should you be buying Franklin Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin Resources include T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Victory Capital (VCTR), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), AllianceBernstein (AB), BlackRock (BLK), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Invesco (IVZ), Lazard (LAZ), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), and State Street (STT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Franklin Resources vs. Its Competitors

T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ:TROW) and Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and risk.

73.4% of T. Rowe Price Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.6% of Franklin Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of T. Rowe Price Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.9% of Franklin Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

T. Rowe Price Group has a net margin of 28.38% compared to Franklin Resources' net margin of 4.65%. T. Rowe Price Group's return on equity of 20.17% beat Franklin Resources' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
T. Rowe Price Group28.38% 20.17% 15.48%
Franklin Resources 4.65%9.13%3.74%

T. Rowe Price Group currently has a consensus target price of $96.64, indicating a potential downside of 8.43%. Franklin Resources has a consensus target price of $21.92, indicating a potential downside of 9.94%. Given T. Rowe Price Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe T. Rowe Price Group is more favorable than Franklin Resources.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
T. Rowe Price Group
4 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.67
Franklin Resources
5 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.85

In the previous week, T. Rowe Price Group had 5 more articles in the media than Franklin Resources. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for T. Rowe Price Group and 16 mentions for Franklin Resources. T. Rowe Price Group's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Franklin Resources' score of 1.00 indicating that T. Rowe Price Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
T. Rowe Price Group
13 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Franklin Resources
8 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

T. Rowe Price Group has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Resources has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.

T. Rowe Price Group pays an annual dividend of $5.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Franklin Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. T. Rowe Price Group pays out 57.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin Resources pays out 188.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. T. Rowe Price Group has increased its dividend for 39 consecutive years and Franklin Resources has increased its dividend for 45 consecutive years. Franklin Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

T. Rowe Price Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Franklin Resources. T. Rowe Price Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
T. Rowe Price Group$7.09B3.28$2.10B$8.8211.96
Franklin Resources$8.48B1.51$464.80M$0.6835.79

Summary

T. Rowe Price Group beats Franklin Resources on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BEN vs. The Competition

MetricFranklin ResourcesFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$12.81B$13.90B$12.03B$20.71B
Dividend Yield5.30%5.83%5.58%3.68%
P/E Ratio35.8534.4319.1527.42
Price / Sales1.516.8726.2370.78
Price / Cash7.0415.8521.3421.88
Price / Book0.962.822.324.64
Net Income$464.80M$560.62M$997.60M$994.58M
7 Day Performance-3.22%0.97%-0.06%-0.94%
1 Month Performance8.83%8.63%4.70%5.16%
1 Year Performance2.16%9.65%541.24%8.80%

Franklin Resources Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BEN
Franklin Resources
4.3382 of 5 stars
$24.34
-0.1%
$21.92
-9.9%
+1.6%$12.81B$8.48B35.8510,200Positive News
Analyst Forecast
TROW
T. Rowe Price Group
4.7131 of 5 stars
$98.90
-1.2%
$94.91
-4.0%
-14.7%$21.79B$7.09B11.218,158Positive News
Analyst Forecast
VCTR
Victory Capital
3.953 of 5 stars
$64.04
-1.5%
$71.56
+11.7%
+31.4%$4.31B$893.48M14.26510News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
VRTS
Virtus Investment Partners
3.6746 of 5 stars
$194.78
-2.2%
$172.50
-11.4%
-14.4%$1.35B$898.60M11.53770Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
AB
AllianceBernstein
2.4266 of 5 stars
$41.49
+0.9%
$37.50
-9.6%
+21.7%$4.59B$4.48B11.154,341News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
BLK
BlackRock
4.5255 of 5 stars
$1,076.55
-0.5%
$1,110.92
+3.2%
+28.3%$166.79B$20.41B26.1621,100Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
CNS
Cohen & Steers
2.305 of 5 stars
$76.47
-2.0%
$82.33
+7.7%
-6.3%$3.90B$517.42M24.99390
IVZ
Invesco
4.7184 of 5 stars
$16.72
-0.1%
$17.48
+4.6%
+2.5%$7.48B$6.07B13.388,500Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
LAZ
Lazard
4.6496 of 5 stars
$49.78
-1.2%
$46.33
-6.9%
+16.1%$5.61B$3.05B17.343,263Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
AMP
Ameriprise Financial
4.0987 of 5 stars
$536.13
-1.3%
$517.86
-3.4%
+22.3%$51.05B$17.47B18.2213,600Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Downgrade
STT
State Street
4.7336 of 5 stars
$109.74
-0.5%
$106.46
-3.0%
+23.8%$31.30B$22.13B12.3253,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision

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