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Franklin Resources, Inc. Financial Services As of 2026-07-31 Updated daily after market close

steady quality, premium valuation.

2 active signals
Top-quintile 6-month momentum EPS surprise beat
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Valuation 41Quality 53Growth 74Momentum 76Risk / liquidity 82

Is Franklin Resources, Inc. a buy? Fundamentals and valuation first

  • Quality is above average. Operating margin sits near the 56th percentile. TTM ROE is about 7.6%.

  • Valuation is expensive. TTM P/E is in the 76th percentile, above most peers.

  • Recent volatility is comparatively low. 60-day annualized volatility is in the 26th percentile. Average 20-day dollar volume is about $148.1M.

  • Signals are active now. Top-quintile 6-month momentum, EPS surprise beat currently holds; the tables below show what followed in this stock’s own history.

Historical evidence

Signals active now

Each active condition is tested against this stock’s own history and benchmarked versus the S&P 500.

Top-quintile 6-month momentum

Active · now 82.12765957446808%

The stock ranks in the top 20% of the liquid US common-stock universe by 126-day adjusted return.

8 historical occurrences (since 2019-04-02)
Average forward return after Top-quintile 6-month momentum。20-day: Win 62.5%, Sample 8, Median +0.5%, Excess -1.83%, Beat mkt rate 37.5%；60-day: Win 16.7%, Sample 6, Median -9.92%, Excess -13.95%, Beat mkt rate 16.7%；120-day: Win 33.3%, Sample 6, Median -4.2%, Excess -14.11%, Beat mkt rate 0%

120 days after: historical avg -5.35%

20-day -1.19%
60-day -9.79%
120-day -5.35%
20-day
60-day
120-day
Win
62.5%
16.7%
33.3%
Sample
8
6
6
Median
+0.5%
-9.92%
-4.2%
Excess
-1.83%
-13.95%
-14.11%
Beat mkt rate
37.5%
16.7%
0%

Over 6 occurrences, 120-day forward avg declined 5.35%, lagged the market by 14.11 pts; win rate 33.3%.

EPS surprise beat

Active · now 9.422492401215797%

Reported EPS beat consensus estimate by at least 5%; event date is the earnings-surprise timestamp.

29 historical occurrences (since 2015-04-29)
Average forward return after EPS surprise beat。20-day: Win 55.6%, Sample 27, Median +1.43%, Excess -0.72%, Beat mkt rate 40.7%；60-day: Win 51.9%, Sample 27, Median +3.57%, Excess -1.1%, Beat mkt rate 44.4%；120-day: Win 53.8%, Sample 26, Median +4%, Excess -3.23%, Beat mkt rate 46.2%

120 days after: historical avg +1.75%

20-day +0.08%
60-day +0.61%
120-day +1.75%
20-day
60-day
120-day
Win
55.6%
51.9%
53.8%
Sample
27
27
26
Median
+1.43%
+3.57%
+4%
Excess
-0.72%
-1.1%
-3.23%
Beat mkt rate
40.7%
44.4%
46.2%

Over 26 occurrences, 120-day forward avg gained 1.75%, lagged the market by 3.23 pts; win rate 53.8%.

Valuation regime and forward returns

Daily TTM P/E is converted into an expanding own-history percentile, then grouped into five valuation regimes. Forward returns use adjusted prices over the next 240 trading days.

PE percentile bandSample days240-day avg returnMedianWin rateAvg excess (vs index)
0-20 446+18.6% +7.2% 70.6% +4.6%
20-40 157+1.4% -10.9% 33.8% -8.1%
40-60 387-5.7% -9.7% 34.1% -23.7%
60-80 You are here261-4.4% -12.2% 30.7% -17.5%
80-100 191+29.5% +33.9% 95.8% +10.8%

Quarterly EPS is aligned by SEC filing date before it is forward-filled to daily prices. The expanding percentile uses only information available up to each day.

Current TTM P/E is about 22.57, placing it in the 75.1 own-history percentile, inside the 60-80 bucket.

Valuation × momentum analogs

Each historical day is grouped by own-history P/E tercile and 60-day momentum direction, then tested for the next 120-trading-day adjusted return.

Valuation
Momentum
Cheap (own-history bottom third)
Middle
Expensive (own-history top third)
60-day momentum up
+1.5%
Win rate 56.4% Excess -1.3%
188d
-5%
Win rate 29.8% Excess -14%
168d
Now
+7.4%
Win rate 67.7% Excess -2.1%
378d
60-day momentum down
+7.1%
Win rate 52.7% Excess +2.4%
332d
-4.3%
Win rate 28.9% Excess -11.8%
357d
+24.7%
Win rate 97.8% Excess +14.9%
139d

Currently in “Expensive (own-history top third) × 60-day momentum up”: across 378 historical days, 120-day forward avg gained 7.4%, win rate 67.7%, lagged the market by 2.1%.

Days = trading days in this bucket; returns use adjusted prices, ex-costs. 60-day momentum: direction of this stock's price over the past 60 trading days.

Market-wide momentum baseline

Across 97,878 liquid US common-stock samples, top-quintile 6-month momentum was followed by an average 60-trading-day return of +6.26%, a 58.3% positive-return rate, and +2.90 percentage points of average excess return versus the S&P 500.

Baseline: weekly samples since 2016 where a liquid US common stock ranked in the top quintile by 126-trading-day momentum. Forward return is 60 trading days; excess return is versus S&P 500 (^GSPC).

Signals not active now

Inactive signals still show the stock-specific historical forward-return distribution for context.

52-week adjusted-price high

Pending

Adjusted close first reaches a 252-trading-day high; repeated hits within 20 days count once.

14 times historically; 60-day forward avg -0.72%, win rate 46.2%, beating the market by -4.87 pts on average.

Filed revenue acceleration

Pending

TTM revenue growth is at least 10% and improved versus the prior filed quarter; event date is the SEC filing date.

Method and limits

  • Returns use us_price:adj_close, adjusted for splits and dividends where available.
  • Excess returns use world_index:^GSPC as the S&P 500 benchmark proxy.
  • Quarterly fundamentals are aligned to SEC filing dates before daily valuation studies.
  • The promoted universe starts from active NYSE/NASDAQ common stocks, then applies price and dollar-volume gates.
  • Snapshot-only tables such as analyst consensus, DCF, us_ratios, and us_key_metrics are intentionally excluded from historical evidence.
  • Overlapping event windows are descriptive distributions, not independent samples.

This page is for historical data analysis and education only. It is not investment advice. Backtests and historical return distributions do not predict future performance; evaluate risk independently before trading.