shares of franklin resources inc ben advanced 259 to 2694 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 144 to 410931 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 126 to 3327415 franklin resources inc closed 743 below its 52week high 3437 which the company reached on february 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as blackrock inc blk rose 122 to 66912 goldman sachs group inc gs rose 186 to 32711 and bank of new york mellon corp bk rose 120 to 4544 trading volume 27 m remained 14 million below its 50day average volume of 42 m 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