How Franklin Premier Income Trust stacks up

PPT · against 153 other Financial Services companies listed in US-listed

Growth

12/ 100

Near the bottom of its peers.

Ranked #140 of 154 · scores higher than 9% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the growth score

14 peers with a growth score of 10–19, including PPT · Click a bar to see the companies

Why growth scores 12?

Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.

Mainly because of its revenue growth and earnings per share growth, which are weaker than most Financial Services peers.

slower revenue growth over the last year: weaker than 88% of peers. Revenue growth: -21.3% vs peer median 7.4%
slower growth in earnings per share: weaker than 78% of peers. Earnings per share growth: -23.5% vs peer median 10.0%
3-year revenue growth is not reported, so it is left out of the score.

Metric by metric

Position: dot = PPT, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	PPT	Peer median	Better than	Position among peers	Weight
Revenue growthHigher is better · 179 reported	-21.3%	10.5%	13%		33%
Earnings per share growthHigher is better · 131 reported	-23.5%	11.4%	25%		33%
3-year revenue growthHigher is better · 138 reported	Not reported	11.5%	—	—	33%

A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.

Ranking by growth score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around PPT

Rank	Company	Market cap	Growth	Overall
1	ASA Gold and Precious Metals LimitedASA · US-listed	883M USD	99	51
1	BlackRock Income Trust, Inc.BKT · US-listed	322M USD	99	58
3	Gladstone Investment CorporatioGAIN · US-listed	601M USD	98	72
3	Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income PortfolioNXP · US-listed	843M USD	98
5	Franklin Municipal Opportunities TrustPMO · US-listed	282M USD	97
⋯
136	Thornburg Income Builder Opportunities TrustTBLD · US-listed	657M USD	15
137	The Western Union CompanyWU · US-listed	1.9B USD	14	47
138	Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc.BCSF · US-listed	706M USD	13	52
138	FS Credit Opportunities Corp.FSCO · US-listed	1.0B USD	13
140	Franklin Premier Income TrustPPT · US-listed	321M USD	12
141	Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc.CGBD · US-listed	742M USD	11	39
142	The Carlyle Group Inc.CG · US-listed	14.6B USD	10	20
143	Burford Capital LimitedBUR · US-listed	832M USD	8	17
143	FS KKR Capital Corp.FSK · US-listed	3.1B USD	8	36

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

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