Franklin Universal Closed Fund is an asset management business based in the US. Franklin Universal Closed Fund shares (FT) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $7.46 – an increase of 2.33% over the previous week.
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| Latest market close | $7.46 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $6.07 - $7.62 |
| 50-day moving average | $7.43 |
| 200-day moving average | $7.39 |
| Wall St. target price | N/A |
| PE ratio | 5.4003 |
| Dividend yield | $0.51 (7%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.35 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $7.46 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | 2.33% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 4.19% |
| 3 months (2025-02-05) | -1.71% |
| 6 months (2024-11-05) | 0.67% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | 11.93% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-04) | 27.60% |
| 3 years (2022-05-04) | 23.40% |
| 5 years (2020-05-04) | 65.35% |
Valuing Franklin Universal Closed Fund stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Franklin Universal Closed Fund's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Franklin Universal Closed Fund's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 5x. In other words, Franklin Universal Closed Fund shares trade at around 5x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
| Revenue TTM | $14.5 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 80.09% |
| Gross profit TTM | $14.5 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 2.85% |
| Return on equity TTM | 17.47% |
| Profit margin | 235.21% |
| Book value | $8.20 |
| Market Capitalization | $183.5 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 37.78% of net profits
Recently Franklin Universal Closed Fund has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Franklin Universal Closed Fund shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Franklin Universal Closed Fund's case, that would currently equate to about $0.51 per share.
While Franklin Universal Closed Fund's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Franklin Universal Closed Fund may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Franklin Universal Closed Fund's most recent dividend payout was on 14 February 2019. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 16 April 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Franklin Universal Closed Fund's shares have ranged in value from as little as $6.0739 up to $7.6153. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Franklin Universal Closed Fund's is 0.688. This would suggest that Franklin Universal Closed Fund's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Franklin Universal Trust is a closed-ended balanced mutual fund launched by Franklin Resources, Inc. The fund is managed by Franklin Advisers, Inc. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The fund invests in companies operating in utility sector. It employs fundamental analysis to invest in a diversified portfolio of corporate bonds and dividend paying utility stocks. The fund benchmarks the equity component of its balanced portfolio against the S&P 500 Electric Utilities Index and the fixed component against the Credit Suisse High Yield. Franklin Universal Trust was formed on September 23, 1988 and is domiciled in the United States.
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