BlackRock Inc
- Industry
- Asset Management
- Exchange
- US
- Country
- USA
- IPO date
- Oct 1, 1999
- Employees
- 24,900
- Website
- www.blackrock.com
Composite valuation range · conservative $600–$800 / fair $800–$950 / optimistic $1,000–$1,150. At $1,062.14, Within the optimistic intrinsic-value range · much expectation priced in.
At publication $1,073 (May 24, 2026)
Data from EODHD, shown in the reporting currency; for reference only, not investment advice.
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 A
History
BlackRock, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in New York, New York, completing its IPO on October 1, 1999. Larry Fink has served as chairman and CEO since 1999. During 2025 the firm completed the acquisitions of GIP, HPS, Preqin, and ElmTree; the HPS deal added roughly $165 billion in client AUM and about $118 billion in fee-paying AUM, while Preqin strengthened its private-markets data and GIP reinforced infrastructure. As of 2026 it employs around 25,400 people.
Industry position
BlackRock is a publicly owned investment manager operating across traditional asset management, ETF/index investing, and private markets and investment technology. As of April 2026 its iShares unit managed about $6.06 trillion in ETF assets for a 27.7% share of a global ETF market that reached $21.91 trillion; Vanguard held $4.69 trillion (21.4%) and State Street SPDR $2.16 trillion (9.9%), with the top three making up 59%. Its Aladdin, eFront, and Preqin platforms add technology and data services alongside investment management. 2025 revenue was about $24.2 billion.