Franklin Templeton BEN Insider Ownership

NYSE BEN

$31.05 -0.45 (-1.43%)

At close: Oct 23, 2026 · 4:00 PM EDT

Insider Holdings by Owner

100.63Mn Shares

Insider Ownership Statistics

as of 30 Sep, 2026

Insider Ownership

20.89%

▲+0.122% pp QoQ

Shares Held by Insiders

107.62Mn

filed for Sep 2026

▲+0.59% QoQ

Shares Outstanding

515.20Mn

515,200,000 shares

Direct Holdings

98.89Mn

Indirect: 8.72Mn

Net Shares Traded (QoQ)

+629.58K

net buying in Sep 2026

Insiders Holding Shares

with Form 4 holdings on file

Shares Owned by Insiders

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Insider Ownership Summary

Updated Oct 21, 2026

Over the past 12 months, Franklin Templeton insiders bought $2.13 million of stock on the open market (100K shares) and made no open-market sales.

Among Franklin Templeton's insiders, the largest open-market purchases in the past 12 months were by Charles B. Johnson (10% owner), totaling $2.13 million (100K shares), most recently on November 20, 2025.
Apart from open-market trades, BEN insiders received 1.88Mn shares in stock awards, gave up 399.4K shares to cover taxes or exercise prices and gave away 68.15K shares as gifts in the past 12 months.
Business Quant data puts insider holdings in BEN at 108.5Mn shares across insiders' latest Form 4 filings, up 1.41% from 106.99Mn shares at the end of Q2 2026 and up 2.46% from 105.89Mn shares at the end of Q3 2025.
Franklin Templeton insiders hold 99.74Mn shares directly (91.93% of their total) and 8.76Mn shares (8.07%) indirectly, through entities such as trusts and partnerships.
Business Quant counts 14 insiders with holdings in Franklin Templeton stock, among the officers, directors and 10% owners who have filed a Form 4 in the past two years.
BEN's three largest insider shareholders, per their latest Form 4 filings, are Charles B. Johnson (10% owner, 94.19Mn shares), Jennifer M. Johnson (Chief Executive Officer, 7.71Mn shares) and Gregory E. Johnson (Executive Chairman, 3.4Mn shares).
The holding of Charles B. Johnson makes up 86.82% of all shares held by Franklin Templeton insiders.
Institutional investors held 52.78% of Franklin Templeton stock at the end of Q2 2026, while the latest Form 4 filings of its insiders account for about 21.06%; other investors, including the public, hold roughly 26.16%.
Over the past 12 months, 16 insiders reported transactions in Franklin Templeton stock in 56 Form 4 filings.
These insider figures for Franklin Templeton are based on Form 4 filings through October 19, 2026.

Form 4 Holdings

Insiders Holding BEN

Insiders 16

Shares held 100.63Mn

Of outstanding 19.53%

#	Insider	Position	Direct	Indirect	Total	Share of Insiders	Last Filed
1	Charles B Johnson	Chairman Of The Board	90,108,421	0	90,108,421	89.5%	29 Dec, 2025
2	Jennifer M Johnson	Chief Executive Officer	3,753,930	638,554	4,392,484	4.4%	19 Oct, 2026
3	Gregory E Johnson	Executive Chairman	2,723,059	0	2,723,059	2.7%	15 Oct, 2026
4	Matthew Nicholls	Co President, Cfo Coo	934,348	0	934,348	0.9%	15 Oct, 2026
5	Daniel Gamba	Co President, Chief Commercial	690,609	0	690,609	0.7%	15 Oct, 2026
6	Adam Benjamin Spector	Evp, Head Global Distribution	593,282	0	593,282	0.6%	03 Sep, 2025
7	Terrence Murphy	Co President, Public Markets	532,162	0	532,162	0.5%	15 Oct, 2026
8	Thomas C Merchant	Evp, General Counsel	120,475	0	120,475	0.1%	15 Oct, 2026
9	Jed A. Plafker	Executive Vice President	117,648	0	117,648	0.1%	02 Sep, 2022
10	Gwen L Shaneyfelt	Chief Accounting Officer	99,732	0	99,732	0.1%	05 Dec, 2023
11	Alok Sethi	Evp, Head Of Global Operations	90,510	0	90,510	0.1%	03 Sep, 2025
12	Geoffrey Y Yang	Director	74,064	0	74,064	0.1%	04 Feb, 2026
13	Anthony Noto	Director	47,152	0	47,152	0.0%	04 Feb, 2026
14	John W Thiel	Director	40,792	0	40,792	0.0%	04 Feb, 2026
15	Mariann H Byerwalter	Director	0	34,781	34,781	0.0%	04 Feb, 2026
16	Lindsey Harumi Oshita	Chief Accounting Officer	32,624	0	32,624	0.0%	15 Oct, 2026

Each row is that insider’s most recently reported position, from Form 4 filings over the last 60 months — which is why this total does not tie to the quarterly series above, where a quarter counts only the insiders who filed in it. Shares held through a fund or institutional portfolio are counted on the institutional ownership page instead.

Form 4 Filings

2,374 Insider Transactions

Source SEC Form 4

Latest quarter Sep 2026

Date	Insider	Position	Transaction	Shares	Price	Value	Shares Held After	Ownership
19 Oct, 2026	Jennifer M Johnson	Chief Executive Officer	Disposed G	32,625	—	—	3,753,930	Direct
19 Oct, 2026	Jennifer M Johnson	Chief Executive Officer	Acquired G	32,625	—	—	638,554	Indirect
13 Oct, 2026	Gregory E Johnson	Executive Chairman	Acquired A	23,814	$31.18	$742.52K	2,700,800	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Thomas C Merchant	Evp, General Counsel	Acquired A	19,244	$31.18	$600.03K	102,049	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Daniel Gamba	Co President, Chief Commercial	Acquired A	82,025	$31.18	$2.56Mn	690,609	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Matthew Nicholls	Co President, Cfo Coo	Acquired A	99,664	$31.18	$3.11Mn	816,928	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Jennifer M Johnson	Chief Executive Officer	Acquired A	202,053	$31.18	$6.30Mn	3,640,034	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Terrence Murphy	Co President, Public Markets	Acquired A	137,589	$31.18	$4.29Mn	528,473	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Lindsey Harumi Oshita	Chief Accounting Officer	Acquired A	6,495	$31.18	$202.51K	32,624	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Terrence Murphy	Co President, Public Markets	Acquired A	3,689	—	—	532,162	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Jennifer M Johnson	Chief Executive Officer	Acquired A	146,521	—	—	3,786,555	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Matthew Nicholls	Co President, Cfo Coo	Acquired A	117,420	—	—	934,348	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Thomas C Merchant	Evp, General Counsel	Acquired A	18,426	—	—	120,475	Direct
13 Oct, 2026	Gregory E Johnson	Executive Chairman	Acquired A	22,259	—	—	2,723,059	Direct
01 Oct, 2026	John Y Kim	Director	Acquired A	1,031	$32.50	$33.50K	80,691	Direct
01 Oct, 2026	Karen Matsushima King	Director	Acquired A	1,054	$32.50	$34.25K	74,192	Direct
31 Aug, 2026	Matthew Nicholls	Co President, Cfo Coo	Disposed F	61,533	$34.15	$2.10Mn	717,264	Direct
31 Aug, 2026	Thomas C Merchant	Evp, General Counsel	Disposed F	9,807	$34.15	$334.91K	82,805	Direct
31 Aug, 2026	Terrence Murphy	Co President, Public Markets	Disposed F	25,125	$34.15	$858.02K	390,884	Direct
31 Aug, 2026	Gregory E Johnson	Executive Chairman	Disposed F	10,568	$34.15	$360.90K	2,676,986	Direct

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