Want to find your lens? Five questions, no jargon — they tell you which of four reads fits how you already think.
Cheap and healthy — worth a proper look.
The math shows a margin of safety, and nothing is obviously deteriorating.
Price against fair value
Free cash flow — 10-year history ($B)
What the math is really telling you. Watch whether cash flow is compounding — that, more than any single year, is what a value read hangs on.
The read — lights & verdict
- GoodUndervaluedFair value ~$36 vs $31 — a margin of safety of 15%.
- WarningPrice assumes a big accelerationYou'd need ~3%/yr free-cash-flow growth to justify today's price; it has done -21.2%/yr lately.
- GoodRevenue still growingUp 3.5% last year — demand isn't the problem.
- CautionCash flow flat-to-downFree cash flow ~-21.2%/yr — big, but not compounding. The crux for a value buyer.
- GoodFortress balance sheetNet cash positive (+$1B) — little solvency risk. It also has $1B of operating-lease commitments — about 1.1× annual free cash flow — which this figure does not count as debt.
How this was built. Every figure is computed from Franklin Resources, Inc.'s SEC filings — no estimates, no AI. Two-stage DCF: 9% discount rate, 5% free-cash-flow growth for 10 years, 2.5% terminal. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital spending. Net cash is cash and marketable securities less borrowings, commercial paper and finance leases; operating leases are disclosed but never counted as debt. Fundamentals are from the FY25 annual report and change only when a new one is filed. Price of $31.06 taken 2026-10-23 (Google Finance, manual entry, 2026-10-23) — it is not live and does not move during the day.
TickerMath is an educational tool, not investment advice — it computes one model from SEC filings and can be wrong. How we compute this →