About BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors including corporate, public, union, and industry pension plans, insurance companies, third-party mutual funds, endowments, public institutions, governments, foundations, charities, sovereign wealth funds, corporations, official institutions, and banks. It also provides global risk management and advisory services. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also launches and manages open-end and closed-end mutual funds, offshore funds, unit trusts, and alternative investment vehicles including structured funds. The firm launches equity, fixed income, balanced, and real estate mutual funds. It also launches equity, fixed income, balanced, currency, commodity, and multi-asset exchange traded funds. The firm also launches and manages hedge funds. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, real estate, currency, commodity, and alternative markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, SMID-cap, large-cap, and multi-cap companies. It also invests in dividend-paying equity securities. The firm invests in investment grade municipal securities, government securities including securities issued or guaranteed by a government or a government agency or instrumentality, corporate bonds, and asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a focus on bottom-up and top-down approach to make its investments. The firm employs liquidity, asset allocation, balanced, real estate, and alternative strategies to make its investments. In real estate sector, it seeks to invest in Poland and Germany. The firm benchmarks the performance of its portfolios against various S&P, Russell, Barclays, MSCI, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch indices. BlackRock, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Greenwich, Connecticut; Houston, Texas; Miami, Florida; Newport Beach, California; Palo Alto, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Princeton, New Jersey; San Francisco, California; Santa Monica, California; Seattle, Washington; Washington, DC; West Palm Beach, Florida; Wilmington, Delaware; Mexico; Canada; South Africa; Netherlands; Greece; Serbia; Belgium; Hungary; Denmark; Ireland; Scotland; Germany; Switzerland; England; Luxembourg; Spain; Italy; France; Sweden; Austria; India; China; Australia; Hong Kong; South Korea; Singapore; Taiwan; Japan; Colombia; Argentina; Peru; Chile; Brazil; UAE; Saudi Arabia; Israel.
BlackRock, Inc. (BLK) is a Financial Services company in the Asset Management industry with a market capitalisation of $175.4B. The stock trades at 25.45x trailing earnings and yields 2.16%.
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management
- Market cap
- $175.4B
- P/E ratio
- 25.45
- Forward P/E
- 16.79
- EPS (TTM)
- $42.43
- Revenue (TTM)
- $27.3B
- Free cash flow
- $7.6B
- Profit margin
- 24.1%
- Dividend yield
- 2.16%
- Beta
- 1.43
- Shares outstanding
- 154.9M
Financial health: Strong9.2/10
5 strengths, 0 concerns. No red flags against these benchmarks.
- Return on equity: 12.3% (Watch, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 12.3% on shareholder equity, short of the > 15% mark.
- Net margin: 24.1% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 24.1% of revenue into profit, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Revenue growth: 30.6% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 30.6% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: 19.6% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed 19.6% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- PEG ratio: 0.89 (Strong, benchmark < 1) — At 0.89, the price looks cheap relative to expected growth — Lynch treated 1.0 as fair value.
- Payout ratio: 52.4% (Strong, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 52.4% of earnings as dividends, leaving room to keep paying.