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Blackstone Inc.

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 39% YoY at strong marginsRecent insider buyingConsistent chatter on X (185/wk), no spike
$BX·$138B·Asset Management·Financial Services
$106.63-2.4%YTD-29.6%1Y-32.5%
Price updated 7h ago·X counts updated 5d ago
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$BXBlackstone Inc.
$106.63-2.35%185 posts1×
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On X

The complete picture of $BX on X — how loud the conversation is right now, how it has trended over the last two weeks, and which way the crowd is leaning.

185X posts · last 7 days
Sep 29Oct 11
Chatter Meter
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How loud $BX's conversation on X is versus its own normal — 1× is typical, higher means busier. Right now it's about its usual level, louder than 58% of tracked names.

Bearish sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data7 posts analyzed · as of 2026-09-15

Blackstone's Project Braid data-center venture with Google hits delays at Wyoming and Texas sites, and the head of BX real estate is leaving less than a year in. A separate 'BCRED/BREIT loans are bad — very bad' post amplifies concern; positive Podcast launch news is a small offset.

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AI verdictAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

TickerTalks' own read on what's driving $BX — fundamentals, momentum, or an event — and whether it agrees with the X crowd.

Proven numbersSelling offAI verdict · as of 2026-10-03

Falling on heavy selling — points lower unless it turns around.

Blackstone is still earning like Blackstone — but data-center-venture delays plus key-person departures have the market pricing something worse.

Blackstone is the largest alternative-asset manager, with real-estate, private-credit, and infrastructure platforms each large enough to be its own public company. The 2026 drawdown reflects a specific credibility question — Project Braid data-center-venture delays with Google, and the head of real estate leaving less than a year in.

  • The P&L is still working: Q2 revenue grew 39% YoY to $4.1B at a 39% operating margin and $0.83 EPS, with trailing EPS beats of 13% and 1.5% — the fee-earning business is fine, which is why the drawdown is being read as sentiment/credibility rather than operational.
  • The specific overhangs are real and dated: Wyoming and Texas data-center site delays, the top real-estate executive leaving, a BCRED/BREIT loan-quality concern thread, and a top private-equity executive reportedly preparing to leave — four management or product-quality signals in the same month is unusual, and the chart at 15% of 52-week range reflects that stacking.

Oct 22 earnings is the moment management has to answer back. A clean distributable-earnings beat plus specific updates on BREIT/BCRED credit quality is the trigger for a reversal; silence on the executive departures and private-credit book is where the breaking-down trajectory continues.

Agrees with X sentimentThe bearish Project Braid / executive-departure read is grounded, and the BCRED/BREIT loan concern is a specific credit question. The $60B Broadcom AI deal participation shows the franchise is still being chosen for marquee transactions — but that's an offsetting datapoint, not a thesis crack-fix.

What to watch: Oct 22 Q3 earnings — distributable earnings, fee-related earnings direction, BCRED/BREIT credit-quality metrics, and any executive-succession commentary. A clean credit print plus specific succession announcement is the trigger; silence is the invalidation.

On the calendar: 2026-10-22 — Q3 earnings

event ahead 30dcredit overhang

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Largest alternative asset manager with ~$1T AUM across private equity, real estate, credit, and hedge fund strategies.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Asset Management sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $BX.

Asset Management · Financial Services

No material change from last week — yield-seeking institutional capital continues flowing into private credit and infrastructure alternatives.

What this means for $BX

Partial — Largest alternative asset manager with ~$1T AUM across private equity, real estate, credit, and hedge fund strategies.

Top industry ETF

$IAIiShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF
-1.4%YTD
+3.3%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
29.6How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
20.4%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
48.8%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
2.4%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
9.2Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
36.2%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
87.5%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
1.7Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Jul 23, 2026$1.52$1.34+13.4%
Q1 2026Apr 23, 2026$1.36$1.34+1.5%
Q4 2025Jan 29, 2026$1.75$1.54+13.6%
Q3 2025Oct 23, 2025$1.52$1.23+23.6%
Next earningsThu, Oct 22·consensus EPS $1.28

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$4.1B+39.3%98.5%38.8%$0.83$957.6M
Q4 FY25$4.4B+54.7%64.5%54.2%$1.30$-25.5M
Q3 FY25$2.8B-6.2%95.5%51.4%$0.80$1.6B
Q2 FY25$3.7B+54.5%96.3%51.6%$0.98$848.4M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 6 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$14.5B$14.1B – $14.8B$5.96$5.79 – $6.066
FY27$18.2B$17.0B – $20.4B$7.41$6.78 – $8.076
FY28$19.4B$17.8B – $20.6B$8.19$7.39 – $8.923
FY29$16.3B$15.6B – $17.0B$9.13$8.60 – $9.671

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.1.5×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.8%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-16.8%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-15.5%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 742.6M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.0% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.595-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

BuySep 23Holdings Iv Blackstone10% owner191.7K sh$5.0MSellSep 18Joseph BarattaDirector100.0K sh$12.4MBuyAug 21Holdings Iv Blackstone10% owner272.6K sh$7.1MSellAug 11John G FinleyChief Legal Officer45.0K sh$6.6MSellAug 11David PayneChief Accounting Officer9.5K sh$1.4MBuyAug 10Ruth PoratDirector455 sh$62KSellAug 4Vikrant SawhneyChief Administrative Officer30.0K sh$4.1MBuyJun 23Holdings Iv Blackstone10% owner769.9K sh$20.1MBuyMay 11Ruth PoratDirector439 sh$54KSellMay 1Vikrant SawhneyChief Administrative Officer30.0K sh$3.8M
+ 1 other (1 other) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KOfficer or director changeOct 158-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
3New insider — initial holdingsOct 73
8-KPress release / Reg FDSep 228-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Blackstone Inc. (BX) posted a preliminary press release via Reg FD on September 22, 2026, disclosing a preliminary estimate of revenue it expects to record related to Q3 2026 realization activity (July 1 – September 22, 2026); the specific figure is in the attached Exhibit 99.1. This pre-earnings realization disclosure is a common Blackstone practice that can be market-moving, as it signals performance-fee revenue ahead of the formal quarterly earnings release.

3New insider — initial holdingsJul 303
AI summary

Blackstone Holdings II L.P. filed a Form 3 (initial statement of beneficial ownership) for Jersey Mike's Subs Inc. (JMKE), with 212,240,268 shares beneficially owned. Filer's relationship to issuer: Director, 10%+ Owner. This represents a significant beneficial ownership position. Form 3 must be filed within 10 days of becoming a new 10%+ owner or executive/director. This is an administrative ownership disclosure — no open-market transaction has occurred.

8-KPress release / Reg FDJun 238-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Delaware 001-33551 20-8875684 furnished a Reg FD disclosure covering: mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter). Emerging growth company ☐ If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new .

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 43
AI summary

A new insider filed a Form 3 with the SEC, disclosing initial beneficial ownership of BX securities. This filing is required under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act within 10 days of becoming a reporting person (officer, director, or 10%+ holder). The filing reports 4 shares of common stock. Form 3 filings establish a baseline ownership record for subsequent Form 4 (changes) and Form 5 (annual) filings, providing transparency into insider positions at BX.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 133
AI summary

Blackstone Treasury Holdings III L.L.C. filed an initial Form 3 for Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust Inc. (BXDC) on May 13, 2026, disclosing indirect beneficial ownership of 5 shares of common stock (held indirectly through affiliated entities). As a 10% owner and director-affiliated entity of Blackstone Inc., this filing reflects Blackstone's initial ownership stake in its Digital Infrastructure Trust vehicle.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 123
AI summary

Blackstone Holdings I L.P. filed an initial Form 3 for ARKO Petroleum Corp. (APC) on February 12, 2026, disclosing indirect beneficial ownership of 50,000 shares of Class A common stock held indirectly through related entities (with other affiliated entities holding 0 shares). Blackstone Holdings I is a 10% owner-affiliated entity of Blackstone Inc.; the filing reflects Blackstone's initial threshold ownership in ARKO Petroleum upon completing an investment or reorganization.

+ 16 other (10 13Fs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 1 N-PX) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Anthropic offers Blackstone double-digit yield in chip-financing deal, FT reportsreuters.com·6h agoBlackstone's Q3 Earnings on the Deck: What's in Store for BX?zacks.com·18h agoBlackstone N1's Jas Khaira on Building the Next Generation of AI Giants | Disrupt 2026youtube.com·1d agoInside Blackstone's Massive Bet on the AI Boomyoutube.com·2d agoEarnings Preview: Blackstone Inc. (BX) Q3 Earnings Expected to Declinezacks.com·2d ago

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