STN vs BEN Comparison

Stantec Inc is a sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting company. It offers services through the following business operating units; Environmental Services, Infrastructure, Water, Buildings, and Energy & Resources. Maximum revenue is derived from its Infrastructure business unit, which is engaged in evaluating, planning, and designing infrastructure solutions for transportation, community development, and urban spaces. The company's reportable segments are the United States, which derives maximum revenue, Canada, and Global. These segments provide consulting in engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics services in the area of infrastructure and facilities.

Franklin Resources provides investment services for individual and institutional investors. At the end of April 2024, Franklin had $1.602 trillion in managed assets, composed primarily of equity (35%), fixed-income (35%), multi-asset/balanced (10%) funds, alternatives (16%) and money market funds (4%). Distribution tends to be weighted equally between retail investors (52% of AUM) and institutional accounts (46%), with high-net-worth clients accounting for the remainder. Franklin is one of the more global of the US-based asset managers we cover, with more than a third of its assets under management invested in global/international strategies and 30% of managed assets sourced from clients domiciled outside the United States.