Franchising Companies Outperform Broader Market Indexes

MarketWatch:

FRANdata has launched a new market index called FRANdex, which tracks the performance of the largest 50 U.S. publicly-traded companies that use the business format franchising model.

Using 1Q 2006 as a base, the FRANdex market capitalization index outperformed both the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 indexes. On a quarter by quarter percentage change basis, the franchise companies in aggregate averaged 1/2-percent better than the Russell 2000 and 3/4-percent better than the S&P 500.

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