Franklin Small Cap Fund Fundamentals

FVFRX Fund  USD 55.76  0.50  0.90%   
Franklin Small Cap fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Franklin Small's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Franklin Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Franklin Small's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Franklin Small mutual fund.
  
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Franklin Small Cap Mutual Fund Price To Sales Analysis

Franklin Small's Price to Sales ratio is typically used for valuing equity relative to its own past performance as well as to performance of other companies or market indexes. In most cases, the lower the ratio, the better it is for investors. However, it is advisable for investors to exercise caution when looking at price-to-sales ratios across different industries.

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Current Franklin Small Price To Sales

    
  1.27 X  
Most of Franklin Small's fundamental indicators, such as Price To Sales, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Franklin Small Cap is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
The most critical factor to remember is that the price of equity takes a firm's debt into account, whereas the sales indicators do not consider financial leverage. Generally speaking, Price to Sales ratio shows how much market values every dollar of the company's sales.
Competition

Based on the latest financial disclosure, Franklin Small Cap has a Price To Sales of 1.27 times. This is 64.94% higher than that of the Franklin Templeton Investments family and significantly higher than that of the Small Value category. The price to sales for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Franklin Small Cap Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Franklin Small's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Franklin Small value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Franklin Small competition to find correlations between indicators driving Franklin Small's intrinsic value. More Info.
Franklin Small Cap is one of the top funds in price to earning among similar funds. It also is one of the top funds in price to book among similar funds fabricating about  0.09  of Price To Book per Price To Earning. The ratio of Price To Earning to Price To Book for Franklin Small Cap is roughly  10.81 . The reason why the comparable model can be used in almost all circumstances is due to the vast number of multiples that can be utilized, such as the price-to-earnings (P/E), price-to-book (P/B), price-to-sales (P/S), price-to-cash flow (P/CF), and many others. The P/E ratio is the most commonly used of these ratios because it focuses on the Franklin Small's earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

Franklin Price To Sales Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Franklin Small's direct or indirect competition against its Price To Sales to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the mutual funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Franklin Small could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Franklin Small by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Franklin Small is currently under evaluation in price to sales among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for Franklin Small

The fund consists of 98.68% investments in stocks, with the rest of investments allocated between different money market instruments.
Asset allocation divides Franklin Small's investment portfolio among different asset categories to balance risk and reward by investing in a diversified mix of instruments that align with the investor's goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. Mutual funds, which pool money from multiple investors to buy a diversified portfolio of securities, use asset allocation strategies to manage the risk and return of their portfolios.
Mutual funds allocate their assets by investing in a diversified portfolio of securities, such as stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies and cash. The specific mix of these securities is determined by the fund's investment objective and strategy. For example, a stock mutual fund may invest primarily in equities, while a bond mutual fund may invest mainly in fixed-income securities. The fund's manager, responsible for making investment decisions, will buy and sell securities in the fund's portfolio as market conditions and the fund's objectives change.

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About Franklin Small Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Franklin Small Cap's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Franklin Small using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Franklin Small Cap based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this mutual fund, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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The fund normally invests at least 80 percent of its net assets in investments of small-capitalization companies. Small-cap companies are companies with market capitalizations not exceeding either 1 the highest market capitalization in the Russell 2000 Index or 2 the 12-month average of the highest market capitalization in the Russell 2000 Index. It generally invests in equity securities that the funds investment manager believes are undervalued at the time of purchase and have the potential for capital appreciation. It may invest up to 25 percent of its total assets in foreign securities.

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Other Information on Investing in Franklin Mutual Fund

Franklin Small financial ratios help investors to determine whether Franklin Mutual Fund is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Franklin with respect to the benefits of owning Franklin Small security.
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