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HSBC has agreed to sell its Australian loan book to Blackstone, expanding Blackstone's presence in Australian credit markets. Blackstone has also acquired DarkVision Technologies, a company focused on advanced infrastructure inspection technology. Blackstone, traded as NYSE:BX, is adding two very different assets to its portfolio at the same time. The company is moving into a sizeable Australian lending position while also picking up a technology driven inspection business. Shares last...

KKR's Q2 results benefit from strong AUM growth and higher transaction fees, lifting shares nearly 1% despite higher expenses.

Blackstone Inc. (NYSE:BX) just posted one of its stronger quarters in years. Profit available to shareholders jumped 26% to $1.52 a share, beating estimates that were clustered around $1.33 to $1.35. Total assets under management grew 11% to $1.35 trillion, and revenue jumped 36% to $5.04 billion. Nine of the firm’s ten best-performing investments right […]

Blackstone stock has delivered a 37.4% gain over the past three years, yet current checks suggest the shares trade at a premium, with both the Excess Returns intrinsic value estimate and earnings-based multiples pointing to overvaluation. A 37.4% return over three years highlights that long-term holders of Blackstone have already seen a meaningful payoff, which can limit the margin of safety at today’s price. Blackstone’s push into AI related investments and new products may support long-run...

Blackstone Inc. (NYSE:BX), among the largest alternative asset managers with more than $1.3 trillion under management, delivered a broad earnings beat and addressed investor concerns over realizations and retail redemptions, yet shares struggled to hold gains as investors continued to question when earnings normalization will translate into sustained growth. A Beat Across the Board Blackstone […]

Lazard's Q2 results are hurt by weaker Financial Advisory revenues and higher expenses. Shares fell 1.2% despite growth in Asset Management and AUM.

Blackstone (NYSE:BX) reported a strong Q2 profit surge linked to AI related investments. Management highlighted contributions from AI exposure across its private equity, private credit, and real estate units. Infrastructure holdings and fresh inflows into the private equity business were cited as key areas of outperformance. For investors tracking large alternative asset managers, Blackstone sits at the center of several long running shifts in capital markets, including the growth of...

Blackstone reported strong second-quarter results.

Blackstone's Q2 earnings beat estimates as record $1.35 trillion AUM and strong inflows outweighed higher expenses.

Alternative investment manager Blackstone (NYSE:BX) reported Q2 CY2026 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 62.9% year on year to $5.04 billion. Its GAAP profit of $1.54 per share was 15.9% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Stronger inflows into the investment firm’s private-equity business offset a slowdown in private credit, where individual investors have pulled back.

Stronger inflows into the investment firm’s private-equity business offset a slowdown in private credit, where individual investors have pulled back.

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Blackstone Inc. (BX) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.

BLK tops Q2 earnings and revenue estimates as AUM climbs 22% y/y on strong net inflows, but rising expenses remain a key challenge.

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For most of the post-2008 era, Oppenheimer’s Chris Kotowski was the guy telling you to keep buying the big banks. He waved off the 2011 eurozone panic, the 2016 energy blowup, COVID, and the 2022 rate hikes. On June 30, 2026, he flipped. Kotowski cut Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Bank of America, and ... The Analyst Who Loved Bank Stocks for 15 Years Just Flipped. Here’s What He’s Buying Instead

The deal expands Digital Realty's Northern Virginia hyperscale portfolio

Digital ‌Realty ‌said on Monday ​it would acquire a ‌majority ⁠stake in three ⁠fully ​leased ​Northern Virginia ​data ‌centers from Blackstone-managed funds in a ‌deal ​valuing ​the ​assets ‌at $7.8 billion. (Reporting ​by ​Jaspreet Singh ​in ‌Bengaluru; Editing ​by Vijay ​Kishore)

Blackstone Inc. (NYSE:BX) is one of the 12 Most Profitable S&P 500 Stocks to Invest In. On June 23, 2026, Sunstone Hotel (SHO) announced a definitive agreement to sell the 821-room Hyatt Regency San Francisco to funds affiliated with Blackstone Inc. (NYSE:BX) Real Estate for a gross sale price of $279M, or about $340,000 per […]

NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran slammed private credit lenders funding the artificial intelligence data-center boom, warning that the rapidly growing industry is becoming increasingly reckless as capital floods into the sector. Speaking in an interview with Lumida Wealth Management released...

Varonis Systems stock advances on a report the security software provider is mulling a possible sale after receiving takeover interest.

Both firms posted double-digit revenue growth in 2025, but their risk profiles and valuations diverge sharply as they chart different paths in asset management.

Brookfield posts net margins above 50%, while Blackstone leads in global scale with $1.3 trillion in assets. How do their strategies and risk profiles compare?

A number of stocks jumped in the morning session after the broad market rallied and bond yields fell as the Trump administration announced a new peace deal that would lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Brookfield CEO Bruce Flatt and Oaktree co-chairman Howard Marks discuss their complementary and productive partnership.

Citi highlighted Broadcom (AVGO), Texas Instruments (TXN), and Applied Materials (AMAT) as attractive buys following the recent semiconductor sector selloff triggered by Broadcom’s Q2 results.

Brookfield CEO Bruce Flatt and Oaktree co-chairman Howard Marks discuss their complementary and productive partnership.

A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after investors rotated out of AI and chip stocks and into financial names that had lagged during the technology bull run.

Banks are opening a new balance-sheet escape valve, and investors are moving in fast. Significant risk transfers, or SRTs, have become one of the fastest-growing corners of credit markets, allowing lenders to shift credit risk from loan portfolios to outside investors while reducing the regulatory capital they need to hold. Banks had offloaded risk tied to more than 905 billion, or $1 trillion, of loans by the end of last year, up 26% from a year earlier, according to the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers.