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FBDAX

Franklin Total Return Fund

Expense Ratio
0.48%
AUM
$2.6B
Inception
7/31/1998
1Y Return
-2.4%36th %ilevs 2,838 asset-class peers
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The fund invests primarily in debt securities, including government and corporate debt, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, and floating interest rate corporate loans, with a focus on investment grade securities. It may invest up to 20% of total assets in non-investment grade securities, including up to 5% in those rated lower than B- by S&P or Moody's, while also allowing for up to 25% in foreign securities. The investment manager employs a top-down and bottom-up analysis to select securities across various market sectors.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
FBDAX
Franklin Total Return Fund
-2.5%-2.5%4.0%-1.57-4.9%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/3/2025 to 10/5/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
FBDAX
Franklin Total Return Fund
-3.2%0.0%-0.3%-3.2%-3.7%-3.3%-2.4%1.0%4.6%-0.8%3.9%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/5/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
1998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
FBDAX
Franklin Total Return Fund
4.5%*-0.7%10.9%7.2%8.4%8.2%5.6%2.1%5.2%5.2%-5.2%15.8%9.7%5.8%8.6%-0.7%6.2%-1.3%3.1%3.7%-1.6%9.4%7.4%-0.6%-14.7%6.2%2.0%7.2%-3.2%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/5/2026.

Correlation Matrix

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
FBDAXUS
Franklin Total Return Fund
-3.1%0.13**0.04-0.09**-0.010.12**-0.03-0.030.26227
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). From 10/6/2025 to 8/31/2026.

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Fund Profile

Family
Registrant
Type
Mutual Fund
Asset Class
Fixed Income
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Peer Group
Fixed Income - Core (657 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
36
3Y Peer Percentile
37
Expense Ratio
0.48%
5Y Tax Drag
1.33%/yr
AUM
$2.6B
3Y Flow
-21.0%
Yield
4.64%
Inception
7/31/1998
Holdings (Reported)
4,208
Turnover
234%
Equity
1%
Derivatives
0%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests primarily in debt securities, including government and corporate debt, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, and floating interest rate corporate loans, with a focus on investment grade securities. It may invest up to 20% of total assets in non-investment grade securities, including up to 5% in those rated lower than B- by S&P or Moody's, while also allowing for up to 25% in foreign securities. The investment manager employs a top-down and bottom-up analysis to select securities across various market sectors.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the fund's prospectus. Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 7/31/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Factor DetailsRef: Fixed Income Funds

None of the selected metrics are scored for FBDAX — switch the picker to All, or add metrics under Metrics (top right).

ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Fixed Income Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Country Exposure

Level
90.1%
82.9%
Other7.2%
8.3%
1.7%
1.1%
1.1%
Other4.4%
Emerging Markets1.6%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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2,250 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings) · 2.1% in funds

#NameTickerWeight %Country
1FNMA or FHLMC-
3.56
USA
2Franklin Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund-
2.36
USA
3FNMA or FHLMC-
2.11
USA
4Franklin Ultra Short Bond ETFFLUD
2.08
USA
5FNMA or FHLMC-
1.74
USA
6FNMA or FHLMC-
1.58
USA
7FNMA or FHLMC-
1.51
USA
8FNMA or FHLMC-
1.35
USA
9Gnma-
1.28
USA
10Gnma-
1.21
USA
ⓘ Methodology

Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. "In funds" adds up the rows tagged Fund — holdings that are themselves funds this app covers, which is what look-through can expand; a held vehicle that files no holdings of its own (a commodity or currency trust, a money-market fund) is not counted and stays a single line. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Fixed Income Funds

Total Holdings4,208
Effective Holdings209.2
Top 10 Weight18.8%
Max Position3.6%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)96%
Top Country (of Net Assets)100%
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Fixed Income Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026.

Benchmark DifferentiationRef: Fixed Income Funds

vs AGGBroad Benchmark
Tracking Error1.8%
Benchmark Correlation0.91
ⓘ Methodology

One sub-card per benchmark: the market primary, then the style secondary — the gap between them is the style sleeve itself. Both anchors are Sparkline-inferred (market from asset class and region, style from the holdings size-and-style map), not the fund's official prospectus benchmark. Solid blue dot marks the fund; the shaded band spans the reference set's 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median (band follows the Peer Universe selector). Active Share compares the fund's book with the benchmark's, share for share; Tracking Error is the annualized daily deviation over the trailing two years (ruler runs to just past the universe's 95th percentile, or past the fund's own figure where that is larger); Benchmark Correlation is the plain daily correlation over the trailing year. Hover the labels for full definitions.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
FBDAX
Franklin Total Return Fund
Peer Group
657 funds
Peer Asset Class
2,838 funds
YTD Return
-3.24%-2.78%33-2.33%34
1Y Return
-2.36%-1.96%36-1.51%36
3Y Return (Ann.)
4.56%4.91%374.80%45
5Y Return (Ann.)
-0.83%-0.25%230.27%21
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
0.48%0.55%580.52%54
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (1,557 share classes across 657 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity87
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
FundPeer Group
1FRSTX
Franklin Core Plus Bond Fund
Fixed Income - Core Plus
Fixed Income - Core Plus
87---
2PINCX
Putnam Income Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
76---
3FLCB
Franklin U.S. Core Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
72---
4PTRBX
Putnam Core Bond Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
72---
5VVBIX
Venerable Strategic Bond Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
65---
6GIBAX
Guggenheim Total Return Bond Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
42---
7ACGYX
AB Income Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
42---
8DBIRX
BNY Mellon Bond Market Index Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
40---
9HABCX
THE HARTFORD TOTAL RETURN BOND FUND
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
40---
10JHNBX
Bond Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
39---

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days).