How to buy Franklin Electric CoInc stock

Franklin Electric Co., Inc is a specialty industrial machinery business based in the US. Franklin Electric CoInc shares (FELE) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Franklin Electric CoInc employs 5,400 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Franklin Electric CoInc share price

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Franklin Electric CoInc shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-04-15.

52-week range	$42.67 - $82.99
50-day moving average	$78.45
200-day moving average	$70.77
Wall St. target price	$84.00
PE ratio	37.8411
Dividend yield	$0.62 (0.77%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$2.14

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Is Franklin Electric CoInc under- or over-valued?

Valuing Franklin Electric CoInc stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Franklin Electric CoInc's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Franklin Electric CoInc's P/E ratio

Franklin Electric CoInc's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 38x. In other words, Franklin Electric CoInc shares trade at around 38x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Franklin Electric CoInc's PEG ratio

Franklin Electric CoInc's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.97. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Franklin Electric CoInc's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Franklin Electric CoInc's EBITDA

Franklin Electric CoInc's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $166.3 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Franklin Electric CoInc's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Franklin Electric CoInc financials

Revenue TTM	$1.2 billion
Operating margin TTM	10.41%
Gross profit TTM	$433.1 million
Return on assets TTM	6.58%
Return on equity TTM	12.28%
Profit margin	8.05%
Book value	$18.34
Market capitalisation	$3.8 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Franklin Electric CoInc shares

There are currently 359,173 Franklin Electric CoInc shares held short by investors – that's known as Franklin Electric CoInc's "short interest". This figure is 28.9% down from 505,120 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Franklin Electric CoInc shares can be evaluated.

Franklin Electric CoInc's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Franklin Electric CoInc's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Franklin Electric CoInc shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Franklin Electric CoInc shares traded daily (recently around 205241.71428571). Franklin Electric CoInc's SIR currently stands at 1.75. In other words for every 100,000 Franklin Electric CoInc shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1750 shares are currently held short.

However Franklin Electric CoInc's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Franklin Electric CoInc shares, or, against the total number of tradable Franklin Electric CoInc shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Franklin Electric CoInc's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Franklin Electric CoInc shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0092% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Franklin Electric CoInc shares, roughly 9 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Franklin Electric CoInc.

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Franklin Electric CoInc share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 29.36% of net profits

Recently Franklin Electric CoInc has paid out, on average, around 29.36% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.88% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Franklin Electric CoInc shareholders could enjoy a 0.88% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Franklin Electric CoInc's case, that would currently equate to about $0.62 per share.

While Franklin Electric CoInc's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Franklin Electric CoInc may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Franklin Electric CoInc's most recent dividend payout was on 17 February 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 2 February 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Franklin Electric CoInc's shares ever split?

Franklin Electric CoInc's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 18 March 2013. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Franklin Electric CoInc shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Franklin Electric CoInc shares which in turn could have impacted Franklin Electric CoInc's share price.

Franklin Electric CoInc share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Franklin Electric CoInc's shares have ranged in value from as little as $42.6713 up to $82.99. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Franklin Electric CoInc's is 1.0259. This would suggest that Franklin Electric CoInc's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Franklin Electric CoInc overview

Franklin Electric Co. , Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and distributes water and fuel pumping systems worldwide. It operates in three segments: Water Systems, Fueling Systems, and Distribution. The Water Systems segment offers submersible motors, pumps, drives, electronic controls, monitoring devices, and related parts and equipment. Its motors and pumps are used principally for pumping clean water and wastewater in various residential, agricultural, and industrial applications; and manufactures electronic drives and controls that are used in motors for controlling functionality, as well as provides protection from various hazards, such as electrical surges, over-heating, and dry wells or tanks. The Fueling Systems segment provides pumps, pipes, sumps, fittings, vapor recovery components, electronic controls, monitoring devices, and related parts and equipment primarily for use in fueling system applications.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Franklin Electric CoInc is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 16.724% of Franklin Electric CoInc shares are held by insiders and 82.593% by institutions.

• How many people work for Franklin Electric CoInc?

  Latest data suggests 5,400 work at Franklin Electric CoInc.

• When does the fiscal year end for Franklin Electric CoInc?

  Franklin Electric CoInc's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Franklin Electric CoInc based?

  Franklin Electric CoInc's address is: 9255 Coverdale Road, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, 46809

• What is Franklin Electric CoInc's ISIN number?

  Franklin Electric CoInc's international securities identification number is: US3535141028

• What is Franklin Electric CoInc's CUSIP number?

  Franklin Electric CoInc's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 353514102