Franklin Resources, Inc. vs Sibanye Stillwater Ltd — how do they compare? Franklin Resources, Inc. trades at $33.37 (market cap $16.95B), while Sibanye Stillwater Ltd trades at $10.87 (market cap $7.54B). The key difference: Franklin Resources, Inc. is far larger — about 2.2× Sibanye Stillwater Ltd's market cap, and Franklin Resources, Inc. pays the higher dividend (3.96%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BEN | SBSW | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $16.95B | $7.54B |
Sector | Financials | Basic Materials |
52-Week High | $35.77 | $21.12 |
52-Week Low | $21.18 | $7.27 |
Enterprise Value | $29.90B | $9.19B |
Dividend Yield | 3.96% | 2.93% |
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Franklin Resources provides investment services for individual and institutional investors. At the end of August 2022, Franklin had $1.388 trillion in managed assets, composed primarily of equity (32%), fixed-income (38%), multi-asset/balanced (10%) funds, alternatives (16%), and money market funds (4%). Distribution tends to be weighted more toward retail investors (49% of AUM) investors, as opposed to institutional (49%) and high-net-worth (2%) clients. Franklin is also one of the more global firms of the U.S.-based asset managers with more than 35% of its AUM invested in global/international strategies and 25% of managed assets sourced from clients domiciled outside the United States.
Read more on BEN →Sibanye Stillwater Ltd is a South Africa-focused mining company. The Group currently owns and operates five underground and surface gold operations in South Africa: the Cooke, DRDGOLD, Driefontein, and Kloof operations in the West Witwatersrand region, and the Beatrix Operation in the southern Free State province. In addition to mining, the company owns and manages extraction and processing facilities at its operations, where gold-bearing ore is treated and beneficiated to produce gold dore. The gold dore is further refined at Rand Refinery into gold bars with a purity of at least 99.5% and is then sold on international markets. Sibanye holds a 44% interest in Rand Refinery, global refiners of gold, and the largest in Africa. Rand Refinery markets gold to customers around the world.
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