Company Valuation: Franklin Universal Trust

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: August 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Market Cap 1 175.9 215.9 201.1 169.9 183 199.3
Change - 22.71% -6.87% -15.5% 7.71% 8.91%
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 239.8 279.5 263.3 234.9 242.9 259.2
Change - 16.53% -5.78% -10.8% 3.44% 6.71%
P/E -116x 7x -27.2x -44.3x 5.36x 10.4x
PBR 0.86x 0.96x 0.99x 0.92x 0.89x 0.94x
PEG - -0x 0x 0.9x -0x -0.2x
Capitalization / Revenue 11.4x 14.5x 12.6x 10.5x 12.6x 13.1x
EV / Revenue 15.5x 18.8x 16.6x 14.6x 16.7x 17x
EV / EBITDA - - - - - -
EV / EBIT 18.6x 23.2x 20.3x 17.5x 20.5x 20.4x
EV / FCF 37.5x 38.8x 46.9x 36.5x 55.7x 71.9x
FCF Yield 2.67% 2.58% 2.13% 2.74% 1.8% 1.39%
Dividend per Share 2 0.3853 0.426 0.5492 0.5712 0.51 0.51
Rate of return 5.5% 4.96% 6.87% 8.45% 7% 6.43%
EPS 2 -0.0603 1.228 -0.2941 -0.1527 1.359 0.7649
Distribution rate -639% 34.7% -187% -374% 37.5% 66.7%
Net sales 1 15.48 14.89 15.9 16.13 14.52 15.26
EBITDA - - - - - -
EBIT 1 12.9 12.04 12.97 13.41 11.83 12.69
Net income 1 -1.514 30.86 -7.391 -3.838 34.15 19.22
Net Debt 1 63.9 63.59 62.26 64.97 59.95 59.94
Reference price 2 7.000 8.590 8.000 6.760 7.281 7.930
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 25,132 25,132 25,132 25,132 25,132 25,132
Announcement Date 10/30/20 10/28/21 10/31/22 10/31/23 11/1/24 10/30/25
1USD in Million2USD
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