Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN) earnings on July 31, 2026
More Franklin Resources, Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: No statistical edge
The company beat profit and sales expectations, and the stock responded positively, rising as much as 4.2% before closing up 1.7%.
BEN price around the earnings
33.86
Change: +1.8%
2026-07-31, 20:00 UTC
End of the measured window
32.75
33.38
34.01
34.64
33.25
July 31, 2026
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- Market open
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: No statistical edge
- Thesis published
- Results released
Exceptional 75% beat rate with +17% avg surprise provides fundamental edge, but negative trend strength and limited analyst upside constrain.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Volatile trajectory with a recent bounce after prior weakness, but underlying trend strength remains negative.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Hold
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 2.73
- Analysts covering the stock
- 11
- Average price target
- 34.45
- Lowest price target
- 26
- Highest price target
- 40
- Upside to price target
- 3.9%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 77.1%
- Revenue growth
- 8.7%
- Forward EPS
- 3.1
- Trailing EPS
- 1.34
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 4
- Strong buy: 0
- Buy: 3
- Hold: 6
- Sell: 1
- Strong sell: 1
- Strong buy
- 0
- Buy
- 3
- Hold
- 6
- Sell
- 1
- Strong sell
- 1
- July 14, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Equal-Weight → Equal-Weight)
- July 10, 2026 · Evercore ISI Group: Maintains rating (Underperform → Underperform)
- June 26, 2026 · Morgan Stanley: Maintains rating (Equal-Weight → Equal-Weight)
- June 22, 2026 · TD Cowen: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Neutral
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (2)
- Barclays Maintains Equal-Weight on Franklin Resources, Raises Price Target to $34 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Evercore ISI Group Maintains Underperform on Franklin Resources, Raises Price Target to $35 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 33.15
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.6%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -3.7%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -0.5%
- 30-day change (30d)
- -0.4%
- 30-day relative strength
- +0.3%
- SPY change (30d)
- -0.7%
- Nearest support
- 32.87
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.8%
- Nearest resistance
- 33.18
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.1%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.86
- Mid: 32.87 (0.8% away, 0.32 ATR, 28 touches)
- Mid: 32.71 (1.3% away, 0.51 ATR, 12 touches)
- Mid: 32.45 (2.1% away, 0.81 ATR, 26 touches)
- Mid: 33.18 (0.1% away, 0.03 ATR, 23 touches)
- Mid: 33.48 (1% away, 0.38 ATR, 18 touches)
- Mid: 33.78 (1.9% away, 0.72 ATR, 10 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +17.0%
- April 28, 2026: actual EPS 0.71 vs estimate 0.55 (surprise +28.6%)
- January 30, 2026: actual EPS 0.7 vs estimate 0.55 (surprise +27.5%)
- November 7, 2025: actual EPS 0.67 vs estimate 0.59 (surprise +14.0%)
- August 1, 2025: actual EPS 0.49 vs estimate 0.5 (surprise -2.3%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +1.7%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 3%
- 75th percentile move
- 5%
- 90th percentile move
- 7.5%
- Up / down moves
- 12 / 8
- Average up move
- +4.6%
- Average down move
- -3.0%
Monitoring and close
What Franklin Resources, Inc. reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 0.72 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 0.67 |
| EPS surprise | +7.5% |
| Revenue | $2,358 million |
| Revenue estimate | $1,762 million |
| Revenue surprise | +33.8% |
Franklin Resources beat Q3 estimates with $0.72 adjusted EPS and $2.36B revenue, driven by positive net inflows and record AUM. Results optimistic.
Sources (11)
- Franklin Q3 Earnings Beat on Higher Revenues, AUM Hits Record High (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Franklin Resources Q3 Earnings Call Highlights (opens in a new tab) — MarketBeat
- Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript (opens in a new tab) — SeekingAlpha
- Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) Beats Q3 Estimates on Record AUM and Strong Inflows (opens in a new tab) — ChartMill
- Franklin Resources (BEN) Reports Q3 Earnings: What Key Metrics Have to Say (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Franklin Resources (BEN) Tops Q3 Earnings and Revenue Estimates (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) Exceeds Q2 CY2026 Expectations (opens in a new tab) — StockStory
- Franklin Resources beat expectations in Q3: earnings of $0.72 per share versus $0.67 estimated, and revenue of $2.358 billion versus $1.762 billion. — Benzinga
- Franklin Resources Q3 Adj. EPS $0.72 Beats $0.67 Estimate, Sales $2.358B Beat $1.762B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Franklin Resources, Inc. Announces Third Quarter Results (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
- Franklin Resources, Inc. 2026 Q3 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation (opens in a new tab) — SeekingAlpha
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue, and the price is indicating -1.3% pre-market, a move below the stock's usual reaction (about 3%). The figures don't confirm the prior scenario: there was no prior directional scenario to check against.
How the stock reacted
- Consolidated
- +1.6%
- Max move
- +4.2%
No verdict: the outlook took no direction, so there is nothing to score as a hit or a miss.