Franklin Resources, Inc. vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? Franklin Resources, Inc. trades at $33.37 (market cap $16.95B), while Western Digital Corp trades at $451.5 (market cap $150.95B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp is far larger — about 8.9× Franklin Resources, Inc.'s market cap, and Franklin Resources, Inc. pays the higher dividend (3.96%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BEN | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $16.95B | $150.95B |
Sector | Financials | Technology |
52-Week High | $35.77 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $21.18 | $74.66 |
Enterprise Value | $29.90B | $150.42B |
Dividend Yield | 3.96% | 0.14% |
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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 →Western Digital is a vertically integrated supplier of data storage solutions, spanning both hard disk drives and solid-state drives. In the HDD market it forms a practical duopoly with Seagate, and it is the largest global producer of NAND flash chips for SSDs in a joint venture with competitor Kioxia.
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