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BEN vs FSD

Side-by-side comparison of Franklin Resources Inc. (BEN) and First Trust High Income Long Short Fund (FSD): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both BEN and FSD operate in Investment Managers (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
  • BEN is the larger of the two at $16.28B, about 33.8x FSD ($481.3M).
  • BEN has hit the wire 10 times in the past 4 weeks while FSD has been quiet.
  • BEN has more recent analyst coverage (24 ratings vs 0 for FSD).
MetricBENFSD
Company
Franklin Resources Inc.
First Trust High Income Long Short Fund
Price
$31.51+0.59%
$12.23-1.77%
Market cap
$16.28B
$481.3M
1M return
+3.11%
-
1Y return
+44.01%
-
Industry
Investment Managers
Investment Managers
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2010
News (4w)
10
0
Recent ratings
24
0
BEN

Franklin Resources Inc.

Franklin Resources, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the firm provides its services to individuals, institutions, pension plans, trusts, and partnerships. It launches equity, fixed income, balanced, and multi-asset mutual funds through its subsidiaries. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets. Franklin Resources, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is based in San Mateo, California with an additional office in Hyderabad, India.

FSD

First Trust High Income Long Short Fund

First Trust High Income Long/Short Fund is a closed-ended fixed-income mutual fund launched and managed by First Trust Advisors, L.P. It is co-managed by MacKay Shields LLC. The fund invests in fixed-income markets across the globe. It primarily invests in high-yield corporate fixed-income securities of varying maturities that are rated below-investment grade, including corporate bonds, debentures, notes, and commercial papers. The fund employs fundamental analysis and a long/short strategy, with a focus on such factors as type, size, and cost of a security, financial statements of the issuer, credit quality and cash flow of the issuer, and evaluation of the forces which influence the market to create its portfolio. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Bank of America Merill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Constrained Index. First Trust High Income Long/Short Fund was formed on June 18, 2010 and is domiciled in the United States.

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