Short interest in Franklin Resources Inc (NYSE:BEN) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 23.48M to 26.46M. This put 8.49% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Franklin Resources gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Franklin Resources's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 7.23M shares traded per day, it would take 3.66 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.