Franklin Small-Mid Cap Growth Fund

Franklin Strategic Series · 5 share classes

Actively managed U.S. equity fund
One fund, 5 share classes:FRSGXFRSIXFSGAXFSMRXFMGGX
$3.53B NAV
85 positions · as of 2026-04-30 · filed 2026-06-24

Fund classification

Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2

Franklin Small-Mid Cap Growth Fund is an actively managed U.S. equity fund. 45% of FRSGX’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 91% of the fund’s equity).

Asset class
Equity
Region
United States
Management
Actively managed
Fund type
Open-end fund

Fund profile

As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q3

Long-term capital growth.

Strategy · summarised

The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of small-cap and mid-cap companies, identified by their market capitalization range relative to the Russell 2500 and Russell Midcap Indices at purchase. The investment manager employs fundamental bottom-up research to identify companies with sustainable earnings and cash flow growth, competitive positioning, and valuations that do not fully reflect their long-term opportunity. The fund may also make private investments in non-publicly traded companies. Because the fund's returns depend on the manager's security selection decisions, performance will diverge from any index.

Expenses
0.51% 1.59%across 5 share classes
Share classGrossNet
FRSGX0.85%0.84%
FRSIX1.60%1.59%
FSGAX0.60%0.59%
FSMRX1.10%1.09%
FMGGX0.52%0.51%

Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.

Portfolio turnover 33.86% · as of 2025 Q3

Allocation

Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2

99.79%
of net assets
Stocks97.91%
Cash & short-term1.85%
Loans0.03%
Bonds0.01%
Other0.00%

Sector allocation

The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2

100%
of net assets
Industrials25.0%
Consumer Discretionary19.3%
Information Technology15.9%
Health Care11.6%
9 smaller28.1%

Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).

Portfolio growth profile

How much of the fund’s stock holdings are in fast-growing companies · as of 2026 Q2

Revenue growth
45%of stock holdings in top-quartile growers
covering 91% of the fund’s equity

Share of the fund’s equity (by value) in companies whose trailing five-year revenue — or net-income — growth ranks in the top 25% of U.S. public companies. Foreign and newly-listed holdings are excluded, so the figure covers only part of the book. From SEC filings — not investment advice. How we measure this.

Latest quarter

What changed since the fund's previous filing

2026Q2 vs 2026Q1: 5 new9 exited

New: Ascendis Pharma A/S, HOOD, IONS, PFGC, ARXS

Largest exited: OWL, PAYX, PEN, ALKT, TRU, Franklin Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, Ascendis Pharma A/S, SAIL

Return profile

Chart:

Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026

Share class1-year3-year5-yearVolWorst fall
+14.38%+38.49%+2.52%13.68%-14.38%
+13.55%+35.41%-1.25%13.70%-14.62%
+14.69%+39.54%+3.82%13.68%-14.30%
+14.07%+37.46%+1.29%13.67%-14.44%
+14.79%+39.96%+4.37%13.69%-14.27%

These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 5.62pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.12pp a year — not a difference in what they own.

Cumulative return· May 2023 – Apr 2026

Debt profile

What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-04-30

Avg coupon
10.70%
Avg maturity
1.65 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

0%
floating
Fixed rate100.0%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

1-3y
1-3y100.0%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: none reported
In arrears: 6.46% · $0.08M · 1 positions
Paid in kind: 80.60% · $1.01M · 1 positions

These three overlap — one holding can be in arrears and paying in kind at once — so they are shown separately and never summed.

Holdings

By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page

Issuer%NAVValue
Vertiv Holdings Co.VRT5.00%$176.66M
Howmet Aerospace, Inc.HWM3.79%$133.92M
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.MPWR3.40%$120.32M
Comfort Systems USA, Inc.FIX3.21%$113.48M
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.3.06%$108.33M
Targa Resources Corp.TRGP2.64%$93.36M
Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc.HLT2.45%$86.43M
Carvana Co.CVNA2.24%$79.19M
Cloudflare, Inc.NET2.15%$75.90M
Vistra Corp.VST2.12%$75.01M
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Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-04-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.

Top 10 positions are 30.07% of net assets, top 25 56.57%, across 80 issuers.

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