Blackstone Group Inc
- Industry
- Asset Management
- Exchange
- US
- Country
- USA
- IPO date
- Jun 22, 2007
- Employees
- 5,285
- Website
- www.blackstone.com
Composite valuation range · conservative $75–$90 / fair $90–$110 / optimistic $110–$130. At $132.57, Above the optimistic ceiling · future growth overdrawn.
At publication $118.51 (May 24, 2026)
Data from EODHD, shown in the reporting currency; for reference only, not investment advice.
Blackstone Inc. is an alternative asset management firm specializing in private equity, venture capital, real estate, hedge fund solutions, credit, secondary funds of funds, public debt and equity and multi-asset class strategies. The firm typically invests in early-stage, seed, middle market, mature, late venture, growth capital, emerging growth, turnaround, and later stage companies. It also provide capital markets services. The real estate segment specializes in opportunistic, core+ investments as well as debt investment opportunities collateralized by commercial real estate, and stabilized income-oriented commercial real estate across North America, Europe and Asia. Within fund of fund investments, it seeks to invest in private equity funds, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds, distressed debt/turnaround funds, secondary investment funds & real estate funds. The firm's corporate private equity business pursues transactions throughout the world across a variety of transaction types, including large buyouts, recapitalization, special situations, distressed mortgage loans, mid-cap buyouts, buy and build platforms, which involves multiple acquisitions behind a single management team and platform, and growth equity/development projects involving significant majority stakes in portfolio companies and minority investments in operating companies, shipping, real estate, corporate or consumer loans, and alternative energy greenfield development projects in energy and power, property, dislocated markets, shipping opportunities, financial institution breakups, re-insurance, and improving freight mobility, financial services, cargo, data processing, oil & gas production, oil & gas refining, oil & gas storage, building products, home entertainment, B2B, consumer electronics, home supply store, lodging, commercial services & supplies, metal & mineral mining machinery, coal, hazardous waste collection, solid waste collection, waste water treatment, renewable electricity, equity REITs, power generation by nuclear & fossil
History
Blackstone Inc. completed its initial public offering on June 22, 2007. Over the years it broadened from an alternative asset manager focused mainly on institutional clients into a platform also covering insurance and wealth channels, and shifted its revenue mix from more volatile realized carried interest toward steadier fee-earning AUM and perpetual capital. In its 2025 annual report the firm defines itself as the world's largest alternative asset manager, organized into four main segments: real estate, private equity, credit and insurance, and multi-asset investing.
Industry position
Blackstone describes itself as the world's leading alternative asset management platform, with AUM over $1.3 trillion (1.304 trillion as of 1Q26), including fee-earning AUM of $937.6 billion and perpetual capital of $539.7 billion. Its private wealth channel AUM has reached $310 billion. Among peers, Apollo had roughly $1.03 trillion in AUM and Ares over $644 billion as of 1Q26, with KKR another global leading platform; Blackstone, Apollo and KKR sit in the first tier while Ares is a fast-growing but smaller challenger.