Franklin Resources Ownership | Who Owns Franklin Resources?

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Franklin Resources Ownership Summary

Franklin Resources is owned by 18.45% institutional investors, 48.50% insiders, and 33.05% retail investors. Vanguard group is the largest institutional shareholder, holding 7.17% of BEN shares. Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Inv is the top mutual fund, with 1.92% of its assets in Franklin Resources shares.

BEN Ownership Benchmark

Type	Name	% Inst	% Insiders	% Retail
Stock	Franklin Resources	18.45%	48.50%	33.05%
Sector	Financial Services Stocks	37.05%	15.59%	47.36%
Industry	Asset Management Stocks	49.15%	11.31%	39.54%

Institutional Shareholders

Top Institutional Shareholders by Total Shares

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Value
Vanguard group	37.11M	7.17%	$886.55M
Blackrock	32.02M	6.18%	$715.57M
Power corp of canada	31.56M	6.10%	$745.38M
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	28.77M	5.56%	$679.48M
State street	19.61M	3.79%	$469.64M
Invesco	13.56M	2.62%	$320.39M
Citadel advisors	11.32M	2.19%	$267.42M
Dimensional fund advisors lp	10.86M	2.10%	$256.50M
Geode capital management	7.81M	1.51%	$184.14M
Goldman sachs group	7.44M	1.44%	$175.78M

Top Institutional Shareholders by % of Total Assets

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Value
Power corp of canada	31.56M	100.00%	$745.38M
Azora capital lp	5.10M	7.92%	$120.46M
Kopernik global investors	3.52M	5.81%	$83.20M
Kettle hill capital management	933.20K	5.52%	$22.04M
Bastion asset management	272.89K	2.03%	$6.67M
Fire capital management	172.33K	1.91%	$4.07M
Alexander randolph advisory	85.04K	1.73%	$2.01M
Foundation resource management	585.41K	1.56%	$13.83M
Kinloch capital	159.58K	1.54%	$3.77M
Board of the pension protection fund	63.40K	1.38%	$1.50M

Top Buyers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Citadel advisors	11.32M	0.04%	5.04M
Artemis investment management llp	4.88M	1.22%	4.82M
Norges bank	4.11M	0.01%	4.11M
Invesco	13.56M	0.05%	3.44M
Jupiter asset management	2.67M	0.34%	2.65M

Top Sellers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Evergreen quality fund gp	-	-	-5.24M
Capital research global investors	-	-	-3.55M
Amundi	484.25K	0.00%	-2.87M
Voloridge investment management	-	-	-1.77M
Squarepoint ops	2.62M	0.07%	-1.51M

New Positions

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change	Value
Norges bank	4.11M	0.01%	4.11M	$98.17M
Freestone grove partners lp	2.15M	0.36%	2.15M	$50.75M
Vanguard fiduciary trust	1.73M	0.01%	1.73M	$40.86M
Arrowstreet capital, limited partnership	1.16M	0.01%	1.16M	$27.36M
Cubist systematic strategies	998.15K	0.11%	998.15K	$23.09M

Sold Out

Holder	Change
Stephens consulting	-1.00
First command advisory services	-2.00
Carolinas wealth consulting	-5.00
Colonial trust advisors	-6.00
Hm payson	-8.00

Institutional Ownership Trends

Date	Holdings	Change %	Shares	Change %	Ownership	Change %	Increased Position	Change %	Decreased Position	Change %
Mar 31, 2026	350	-41.08%	95,464,795	-65.39%	18	0.65%	157	-47.32%	113	-39.89%
Dec 31, 2025	250	-59.35%	65,379,418	-75.67%	12	0.47%	115	-61.79%	84	-55.08%
Sep 30, 2025	296	-48.34%	70,370,555	-73.37%	13	0.52%	132	-51.47%	92	-55.56%
Jun 30, 2025	574	-	282,725,551	1.20%	54	1.88%	268	-9.76%	212	26.19%
Mar 31, 2025	6	-98.97%	38,660,402	-85.88%	7	0.27%	3	-98.95%	1	-99.49%

Top Mutual Funds Shareholders

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Change
Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Inv	9.95M	1.92%	23.04K
Vanguard US Total Market Shares ETF	9.92M	1.89%	8.30K
Vanguard 500 Index Investor	7.97M	1.53%	142.76K
Vanguard Small Cap Index	7.20M	1.39%	-17.26K
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight ETF	6.76M	1.30%	-2.04K
ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats	6.50M	1.25%	-
iShares Select Dividend ETF	6.36M	1.22%	-
Vanguard Small Cap Value Index Inv	4.62M	0.89%	32.94K
First Trust SMID Cp Rising Div Achv ETF	4.30M	0.82%	9.20K
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF	3.98M	0.77%	11.63K

Recent Insider Transactions

Date	Name	Role	Activity	Value
Nov 20, 2025	JOHNSON CHARLES B	-	Buy	$1.06M
Nov 18, 2025	JOHNSON CHARLES B	-	Buy	$1.07M
Apr 04, 2025	JOHNSON CHARLES B	-	Sell	$7.38K
Apr 04, 2025	JOHNSON CHARLES B	-	Buy	$7.44K
Mar 04, 2025	JOHNSON CHARLES B	-	Buy	$1.96M

Insider Transactions Trends

Date	Buy	Sell
2026 Q2	-	-
2026 Q1	-	-
2025 Q4	2	-
2025 Q3	-	-
2025 Q2	1	1

BEN Ownership FAQ

Who Owns Franklin Resources?

Franklin Resources shareholders are primarily institutional investors at 18.45%, followed by 48.50% insiders and 33.05% retail investors. The average institutional ownership in Franklin Resources's industry, Asset Management Stocks, is 49.15%, which Franklin Resources falls below.

Who owns the most shares of Franklin Resources?

Franklin Resources’s largest shareholders are Vanguard group (37.11M shares, 7.17%), Blackrock (32.02M shares, 6.18%), and Power corp of canada (31.56M shares, 6.10%). Together, they hold 19.45% of Franklin Resources’s total shares outstanding.

Does Blackrock own Franklin Resources?

Yes, BlackRock owns 6.18% of Franklin Resources, totaling 32.02M shares as of Jun 2024. This represents 0.02% of BlackRock's total assets, with a market value of 715.57M$. In the last quarter, BlackRock increased its holdings by 736.04K shares, a 2.35% change.

Who is Franklin Resources’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested?

Power corp of canada is Franklin Resources’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested, with 100.00% of its assets in 31.56M Franklin Resources shares, valued at 745.38M$.

Who is the top mutual fund holder of Franklin Resources shares?

Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Inv is the top mutual fund holder of Franklin Resources shares, with 1.92% of its total shares outstanding invested in 9.95M Franklin Resources shares.

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