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Fair Value for Franklin Resources (BEN)

See growth priced into Franklin Resources (BEN): reverse DCF, implied rate vs history and analysts, FCF view. Free intrinsic value calculator for education.

Analysis
Capital Return

How this company returns cash to shareholders — buybacks, dividends, and stock splits.

Fair value (multi-method)

Four independent methods triangulate what BEN is worth. The headline is the Forward-DCF intrinsic value at a normalized growth rate; the margin of safety compares it to the current price.

Estimated fair value (Forward DCF)

$6.04

Above fair value
-436.31% vs current price $32.38

Method range

$6.04 – $35.65

median $26.52

Methods disagree

Valuation methods

Each method’s implied fair value per share and its upside versus the current price. Missing methods (no analyst coverage, negative earnings, etc.) are shown as “—”.

  • Forward DCF$6.04
  • Exit multiple$35.65
  • Analyst target$34.25
  • Graham number$18.79

Stock price

$32.38

EPS (TTM)

$1.34

5Y EPS CAGR

-10.6%

Fair value @ hist. growth

$6.04

This analysis is for informational purposes only and is not financial advice. Scenario prices and DCF-style figures depend on your assumptions and data from public filings and estimates. They are not forecasts of future returns.

Implied EPS growth

15.1%

per year over your projection horizon

Premium vs DCF

Margin of safety -436.3% vs hist-growth DCF

Historical 5Y CAGR

-10.6%

Your model implies

15.1%

Analyst consensus for next year implies 110% — beyond the model's annualised scale. Consensus reflects a one-step EPS estimate vs TTM, not a multi-year CAGR.

Model inputs

Move sliders to test how the reverse DCF reacts. Historical-growth markers show where the company has actually grown over the last cycle.

Discount rate (cost of equity proxy)12.6%
Terminal growth2.50%
Projection years10 yr

Sensitivity — implied growth vs your assumptions

Each cell shows the per-share growth rate the market would need to justify the current price at that combination of discount rate (rows) and terminal growth (columns). Your selected inputs are highlighted.

Row axis: discount rate. Column axis: terminal growth.Terminal g →↓ Discount1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%3.5%
10.6%12.4%11.9%11.4%10.8%10.3%
11.6%14.2%13.8%13.3%12.8%12.3%
12.6%15.9%15.5%15.1%14.7%14.3%
13.6%17.6%17.3%16.9%16.5%16.1%
14.6%19.2%18.9%18.6%18.2%17.8%
Color≤ historical CAGRModerate premiumHigh premium (≥ 15pp above hist)Your inputs

Historical multiples

Each bar is the trailing five-year range (low left, high right). Filled portion runs from low to today; the dot marks today; the small tick marks the five-year median. Low, median, and high are listed under each bar.

P/EToday25.4· at high
5Y low8.3
Median14.3
5Y high25.4
P/SToday1.4
5Y low1.2
Median1.4
5Y high1.7
EV/EBITDAToday15.3· at high
5Y low6.2
Median10.2
5Y high15.3

PEG

0.87

Low vs growth

Net debt

$9.73B

Total debt − cash

Beta

1.58

Vs market benchmark

Annual diluted EPS

Per-share earnings by fiscal year — last 5 years anchor the CAGR reference above.

Scale: 0.85 to 3.79 EPS; horizontal line at 0. Fiscal years with no row in the database are omitted.

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