FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO., INC.
At today's price, FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO., INC. (FELE) is priced for +15.9% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
At $104, the price pays roughly 18x company-wide operating income, which works out to about 17% annual operating-profit growth held for five years. That is near the pace Franklin Electric has recently shown, so the demand is mostly about duration, not a heroic acceleration. The valuation methods split cleanly by what they reward. Peer multiples and the growth-DCF land near today's price; asset-based and earnings-power methods sit far below it, because book value and a no-growth earnings stream
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357 institutional managers reported holding FELE in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 86% of the company; the top 10 hold 49%. 39 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Morgan Stanley, among others. On the short side, 738k shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (2.9 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
FELE has cut its share count 4.9% over the past five years, spending $338.39M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 8 years straight; the current rate is $0.58 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $130.17M in dividends and $257.64M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at FELE over the trailing three years: 2026: 1 buy totaling $47k. 16 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
FELE's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-29 | -7.1% | -8.4% |
| 2023-10-28 | -0.1% | +15.3% |
| 2024-02-24 | -2.1% | +2.2% |
| 2024-05-01 | -5.2% | -2.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
FELE's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-11 (items 5.07); 2026-05-04 (items 7.01); 2026-04-28 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-26 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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