Franklin Resources, Inc. vs Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Franklin Resources, Inc. trades at $33.37 (market cap $16.95B), while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF trades at $121.05. The key difference: Franklin Resources, Inc. pays a 3.96% dividend while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BEN | VGT | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $16.95B | — |
Sector | Financials | — |
52-Week High | $35.77 | $125.77 |
52-Week Low | $21.18 | $83.59 |
Enterprise Value | $29.90B | — |
Dividend Yield | 3.96% | — |
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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 →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Information Technology 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small US companies within the information technology sector, as classified under the GICS. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. It is non-diversified.
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