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Franklin Resources BEN Interest coverage

Interest coverage at other companies

Blackrock logo
BlackrockBLK
14×+1.6×
KKR & Co. logo
KKR & Co.KKR
3.6×+0.6×
Northern Trust logo
Northern TrustNTRS
1.4×0.0×
State Street logo
State StreetSTT
1.5×+0.1×
Cincinnati Financial logo
Cincinnati FinancialCINF
65.8×+31.3×
M&T Bank logo
M&T BankMTB
2.1×+0.2×

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$2.3B+8.7%
Operating income$323.3M+122%
Net income$268.2M+77.1%
EPS (diluted)$0.49+88.5%

Balance sheet

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Total debt$3.2B-11.5%
Total equity$12.1B-1.8%
Total assets$34.1B+6.6%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow-$27.6M+44.9%

Valuation

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Market cap$17.17B+21.6%
P/E23.4×-5.5×
P/S1.9×+0.3×

Profitability

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Operating margin9.3%
Net margin8.1%+2.5pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity6%+2.1pp
Debt / equity0.3×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Franklin Resources’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Franklin Resources’s 10-Q, filed April 28, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Franklin Resources's interest coverage?
Franklin Resources (BEN) reported interest coverage of 9.2× in Q1 2026.
How has Franklin Resources's interest coverage changed year-over-year?
Franklin Resources's interest coverage increased by 42.8% year-over-year, from 6.5× to 9.2×.
What is the long-term trend for Franklin Resources's interest coverage?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Franklin Resources's interest coverage has grown at a -24.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 74.5× to 24.4×.
What does interest coverage mean?
How many times the company's operating profit covers its interest bill.
How do you interpret interest coverage?
Higher is safer; below ~2× is a warning that earnings provide little cushion against the debt burden. Debt-free companies have no interest expense and the ratio is left blank.
How does interest coverage compare across companies?
Comparable across leveraged non-financials; less relevant for net-cash companies with negligible interest.