shares of franklin resources inc ben advanced 144 to 2461 friday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 130 to 420545 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 100 to 3309334 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains franklin resources inc closed 976 below its 52week high 3437 which the company reached on february 2nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as blackrock inc blk rose 178 to 67230 goldman sachs group inc gs rose 251 to 33201 and bank of new york mellon corp bk rose 099 to 4078 editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use