Franklin Resources Dividend yield




   USD/share 
 Price  26.74
 Dividend  1.20
 Earnings  3.04
 Cash-flow  3.93
 Book value  22.28
 Equity  22.69

Franklin Resources is part of Financial Services business, which is part of Financials industry. Franklin Resources is a company from USA, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Franklin Resources stock dividend

Franklin Resources paid a total dividend of 600 million USD last year, for a market value of 13,370 millions (Market Cap 7,594 millions). Franklin Resources dividend per share is 1.20 USD, and his stock market price 26.74 USD.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Franklin Resources has a dividend yield of 4.49%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from USA. It is also bigger than average of Financials industry. This high dividend yield might be a sign to worry about the future of the company so deeper analysis is needed.

In addition, you should compare Franklin Resources stocks dividend with other Financial Services companies or other of the best USA dividend stocks list.

Dividend yield of Franklin Resources

Franklin Resources Dividend Payout

About the ability of Franklin Resources to maintain his current dividend of USD 1.20 per share, an amount that accounts for 4.49%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Franklin Resources payout on ernings is currently 39.47%, which is higher than the market average, but lower than companies of Financials industry, which are 39.34% and 46.18% respectively. Both figures show that Franklin Resources should not have problems to continue paying his dividend.

The payout on earnings should be complemented with the payout on cash flow since it is this last amount the one which can be distributed to shareholders. Cash flow per share of Franklin Resources is USD 3.93 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of USD 1.20, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Franklin Resources, compared againt world market average, USA companies, Financials industry and Financial Services sector companies.

Franklin Resources payout

Franklin Resources Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Franklin Resources's dividend stock, both in percentage and in USD, its Payout on Earnings and the number of shares (in case there is an split, number shares altered the dividend per share).

Year Yield  USD  Paypout  Shares* 
Present4.49%1.2039.47%500
20224.55%1.2039.60%500
20213.46%1.1630.13%504
20204.48%1.1266.27%495
20194.16%1.0844.81%498
20183.20%0.9528.53%513
20172.12%0.9230.56%561
20161.83%0.7224.00%576
20152.62%1.1033.33%619

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Franklin Resources dividend stock, and compare it with the average of USA stocks and that of the Financial Services stocks.

Franklin Resources stock dividend history

Franklin Resources Stock performance

Finally, last moth Franklin Resources showed a return of -8.50% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 2.60% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for USA and Financial Services firms.

Franklin Resources stock and market return