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Franklin Universal Trust
How the company evolved, year by year. Revenue and debt come from the annual reports — for most companies, the 10-K filings with the SEC since 2009; dividends from the payments themselves.
The bars are a balance on the closing date; the lines are what happened during the year. Revenue above equity is ordinary, not an anomaly — it means the company turns its capital over more than once a year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
None of the investors we track reported a position in FT.
▼ -13.9% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,250.81▲ +25.1%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 4 closed years. Each multiple uses that year’s closing price and that year’s reported numbers — not today’s. The range is set by the annual reports on record.
| Indicator | Median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $7.31 | $6.65 | $6.73 | $8.46 | |
| P/E | — | 5.4x | — | — | — |
| P/S | — | 5.3x | — | — | 6.7x |
| P/B | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.9x |
| EPS | $1.35 | -$0.15 |
Not shown for closed-end funds and BDCs. The methods assume operating profit, and a fund’s earnings per share are capital gains on its portfolio plus interest income — running them through Graham or a discounted cash flow produces a number that looks like a valuation and means nothing. What matters for a fund is its price against net asset value, which this site does not track.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
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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.
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.
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| Dividend yield | 7.41% | 7.06% | 7.76% | 8.57% | 6.04% |
| Payout | — | 38.22% | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 105.44% | 97.66% | 127.61% | 113.23% | 97.62% |
| ROE | 5.84% | 16.56% | -2.08% | -3.64% | 13.76% |
Median, not average: a single year of near-zero profit produces a P/E of 400 and would drag an average on its own. P/E years above 200x are left out, the same cut the fair price uses — so this median matches the “its own history” method below. Price and EPS have no median: they are series that grow.
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| 255.9x |
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| $199.19M |
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