FT (FT)
Financials · NYQ
Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 18:19 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
FT trades at $7.08, which is 56% below the $11.05 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 61 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 6.1 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
FT dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.043 | 1 |
| 2001 | $0.469 | 7 |
| 2000 | $0.804 | 12 |
| 1999 | $0.804 | 12 |
| 1998 | $0.804 | 12 |
| 1997 | $1.15 | 12 |
| 1996 | $0.843 | 12 |
| 1995 | $0.846 | 12 |
| 1994 | $0.807 | 12 |
| 1993 | $0.818 | 12 |
| 1992 | $0.753 | 12 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
About FT
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 profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
FT passes 5 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
1 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$160.0K · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
FT peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Asset Management), then in the same sector.
- KKR KKR & Co. Inc.
- APO Apollo Global Management, Inc.
- ARES Ares Management Corporation
- CG The Carlyle Group Inc.
- BEN Franklin Templeton Inc.
- BAMGF Brookfield Corporation
- OWL Blue Owl Capital Inc.
- PS Pershing Square Inc.
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Common questions
Is FT (FT) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $11.05, FT at $7.08 is 56% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own FT?
1 of the institutions we track reported a position in FT in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is FT's P/E ratio?
FT trades at 6.1 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does FT (FT) pay a dividend?
Yes. FT yields 6.44% at the current share price. It has paid $0.043 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 14 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its FT data?
Fundamentals for FT come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 30 Sept 2026, 18:19 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 88/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.