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Franklin Resources (Franklin Resources) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 8.41 (As of Apr. 28, 2024)


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What is Franklin Resources Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2024-04-28), Franklin Resources's current share price is $24.99. Franklin Resources's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $2.97. Franklin Resources's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 8.41.

The historical rank and industry rank for Franklin Resources's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF or its related term are showing as below:

BEN' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 5.96   Med: 12.46   Max: 31.7
Current: 8.42

During the past years, Franklin Resources's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 31.70. The lowest was 5.96. And the median was 12.46.

BEN's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked better than
73.37% of 507 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 20.19 vs BEN: 8.42

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF. The Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted free cash flow per share of a company over the past 10 years.

Franklin Resources's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.556. Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share for the past 10 years together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share, which is $2.97 for the trailing ten years ended in Dec. 2023.

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Franklin Resources Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Franklin Resources's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF 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 Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Franklin Resources Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 10.66 7.64 10.70 6.74 7.93

Franklin Resources Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF 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 8.57 8.91 8.84 7.93 10.04

Competitive Comparison of Franklin Resources's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

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

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

* The bar in red indicates where Franklin Resources's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF falls into.



Franklin Resources Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF takes the Free Cash Flow per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/FCF calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPFCF Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF.

Franklin Resources's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=24.99/2.97
=8.41

* 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's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as:

For example, Franklin Resources's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Dec. 2023 (Change)*Current CPI (Dec. 2023)
=-0.556/129.4194*129.4194
=-0.556

Current CPI (Dec. 2023) = 129.4194.

Franklin Resources Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201403 0.481 99.695 0.624
201406 1.221 100.560 1.571
201409 1.145 100.428 1.476
201412 0.897 99.070 1.172
201503 0.867 99.621 1.126
201506 1.107 100.684 1.423
201509 0.678 100.392 0.874
201512 0.462 99.792 0.599
201603 0.202 100.470 0.260
201606 1.225 101.688 1.559
201609 0.921 101.861 1.170
201612 0.767 101.863 0.974
201703 0.271 102.862 0.341
201706 0.582 103.349 0.729
201709 0.273 104.136 0.339
201712 0.547 104.011 0.681
201803 1.012 105.290 1.244
201806 1.094 106.317 1.332
201809 1.317 106.507 1.600
201812 0.449 105.998 0.548
201903 0.283 107.251 0.341
201906 -0.807 108.070 -0.966
201909 0.137 108.329 0.164
201912 0.012 108.420 0.014
202003 0.125 108.902 0.149
202006 1.120 108.767 1.333
202009 0.737 109.815 0.869
202012 0.565 109.897 0.665
202103 0.505 111.754 0.585
202106 0.365 114.631 0.412
202109 0.943 115.734 1.055
202112 0.305 117.630 0.336
202203 0.160 121.301 0.171
202206 1.653 125.017 1.711
202209 1.704 125.227 1.761
202212 -0.579 125.222 -0.598
202303 -0.099 127.348 -0.101
202306 1.173 128.729 1.179
202309 1.522 129.860 1.517
202312 -0.556 129.419 -0.556

Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


Franklin Resources  (NYSE:BEN) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Explanation

Compared with the regular Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF smoothed out the fluctuations of free cash flow during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF should give similar results to regular Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow.


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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