Franklin Resources, Inc. vs J M Smucker Co — how do they compare? Franklin Resources, Inc. trades at $33.37 (market cap $16.95B), while J M Smucker Co trades at $117.5 (market cap $12.54B). The key difference: Franklin Resources, Inc. is the larger of the two by market cap, and Franklin Resources, Inc. pays the higher dividend (3.96%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BEN | SJM | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $16.95B | $12.54B |
Sector | Financials | Consumer Staples |
52-Week High | $35.77 | $126.35 |
52-Week Low | $21.18 | $89.53 |
Enterprise Value | $29.90B | $19.57B |
Dividend Yield | 3.96% | 3.82% |
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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 →J.M. Smucker is a packaged food company that primarily operates in the U.S. retail channel (87% of fiscal 2022 revenue), but also in U.S. food-service (7%), and international (6%). Its largest segment is pet food and treats (36% of 2022 revenue), with popular brands such as Milk-Bone, Meow Mix, 9Lives, Kibbles 'n Bits, Nature's Recipe, and Rachael Ray Nutrish. Its second-largest category is coffee (35% across channels) with the number-two brand Folgers and number-six Dunkin'. Other large categories are peanut butter (10%), with number-one Jif, fruit spreads (5%) with number-one Smucker's, and frozen hand-held foods (6%) with number-one Uncrustables.
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