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How Franklin Templeton Inc. stacks up
BEN · against 44 other Financial Services companies of similar size
Profitability
34/ 100
Near the bottom of its peers.
Ranked #38 of 45 · scores higher than 14% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score7 peers with a profitability score of 30–39, including BEN · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 34?
Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.Mainly because of its operating margin, which is weaker than most Financial Services peers.
- a thinner operating margin: weaker than 75% of peers. Operating margin: 9.7% vs peer median 23.5%
- Return on assets is close to the peer norm. Return on assets: 2.2% vs peer median 2.6%
- Return on invested capital is close to the peer norm. Return on invested capital: 6.9% vs peer median 6.3%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = BEN, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | BEN | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 45 reported | 6.9% | 11.1% | 27% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 31 reported | 9.7% | 23.5% | 10% | 33% | |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 42 reported | 2.2% | 2.5% | 39% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 43 reported | 7.9% | 15.8% | 24% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 51 reported | 37.7% | 60.8% | 20% | Context only |
Ranking by profitability score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around BEN| Rank | Company | Market cap | Profitability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.05T INR (≈$12.6B) | 100 | 65 | |
| 2 | 1.49T INR (≈$17.9B) | 99 | 71 | |
| 2 | 21.7B SGD (≈$16.5B) | 99 | 61 | |
| 4 | 226.5B SEK (≈$22.7B) | 98 | 87 | |
| 4 | 31.1B USD | 98 | 65 | |
| 34 | 14.6B USD | 43 | 20 | |
| 35 | 11.7B USD | 38 | 33 | |
| 36 | 15.9B USD | 36 | 53 | |
| 36 | 16.5B GBP (≈$21.4B) | 36 | 41 | |
| 38 | 16.4B USD | 34 | 54 | |
| 38 | 9.2B GBP (≈$11.9B) | 34 | 58 | |
| 40 | 1.42T INR (≈$17.0B) | 33 | 69 | |
| 41 | 21.7B USD | 30 | 45 | |
| 42 | 11.5B USD | 29 | 44 |
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score