secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC (BEN)
CIK:        0000038777
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000038777-26-000100
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Franklin Resources Q2 net income up 77% YoY to $0.49 EPS; adjusted EPS $0.71; $16.9B long-term net inflows
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- GAAP net income $268.2M ($0.49 diluted EPS) vs $151.4M ($0.26) YoY; adjusted net income $384.5M ($0.71 EPS) up 51% YoY.
- Operating revenues $2.29B, up 9% YoY; operating income $323.3M, up 122%; adjusted operating margin 27.1% vs 23.4% YoY.
- Long-term net inflows $16.9B including $13.2B private market fundraising; AUM $1.68T, up 9% YoY.
- ETFs and Canvas reached record AUM: $4.5B and $5.3B net inflows respectively; Canvas up 27% QoQ.
- Dividend declared $0.33/share, up 3% YoY; repurchased 2.3M shares for $57.1M in the quarter.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38777/000003877726000100/0000038777-26-000100-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38777/000003877726000100/ben-20260428.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000038777-26-000100

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