BlackRock (BLK) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

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 City with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; London, United Kingdom; Gurgaon, India; Hong Kong; Greenwich, Connecticut; Princeton, New Jersey; Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Sydney, Australia; Taipei, Taiwan; Singapore; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Washington, District of Columbia; Toronto, Canada; Wilmington, Delaware; and San Francisco, California.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $1,077.20 to $1,097.66
• 50-Day Range: $964.56 to $1,123.48
• 52-Week Range: $773.74 to $1,130.66
• Volume: 671,764 shs
• Average Volume: 784,428 shs
• Market Capitalization: $169.07 billion
• P/E Ratio: 26.39
• Dividend Yield: 1.91%
• Price Target: $1,151.21
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

BlackRock Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

BlackRock scored higher than 96% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 154th out of 936 stocks in the finance sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 2.4 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

BlackRock has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.86, and is based on 12 buy ratings, 2 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

BlackRock has been the subject of 10 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 14.01%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for BlackRock are expected to grow by 14.01% in the coming year, from $47.41 to $54.05 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of BlackRock is 26.39, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 28.14.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of BlackRock is 26.39, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Finance sector average P/E ratio of about 19.44.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

BlackRock has a PEG Ratio of 2.25. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

BlackRock has a P/B Ratio of 3.55. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 5.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

1.14% of the float of BlackRock has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

BlackRock has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 2.6, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in BlackRock has recently decreased by 15.46%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 4.2 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Strong

Dividend Yield

BlackRock pays a meaningful dividend of 1.87%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

BlackRock has been increasing its dividend for 16 years.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of BlackRock is 50.39%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, BlackRock will have a dividend payout ratio of 38.56% next year. This indicates that BlackRock will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Environmental Score: -0.63

Percentage of Shares Shorted

1.14% of the float of BlackRock has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

BlackRock has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 2.6, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in BlackRock has recently decreased by 15.46%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

News and Social Media

• Score: 3.9 / 5
• News Sentiment: 1.01

News Sentiment

BlackRock has a news sentiment score of 1.01. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.80 average news sentiment score of Finance companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 85 news articles for BlackRock this week, compared to 78 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

41 people have searched for BLK on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 41% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

25 people have added BlackRock to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 92% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, BlackRock insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $55,486,962.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

Only 1.98% of the stock of BlackRock is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

80.69% of the stock of BlackRock is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

BLK Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have BLK shares performed this year?

BlackRock's stock was trading at $1,025.11 on January 1st, 2025. Since then, BLK shares have increased by 6.5% and is now trading at $1,091.29.

How were BlackRock's earnings last quarter?

BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July, 15th. The asset manager reported $12.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $10.41 by $1.64. The company's revenue was up 12.9% compared to the same quarter last year.
Read the conference call transcript.

Does BlackRock have any subsidiaries?

BlackRock subsidiaries include Aquila Heywood, Aperio, Aperio, eFront, eFront, Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC, Glass Mountain Pipeline, and more.

Who are BlackRock's major shareholders?

Top institutional investors of BlackRock include Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.36%), Cantillon Capital Management LLC (0.33%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. (0.23%) and Montrusco Bolton Investments Inc. (0.23%). Insiders that own company stock include Laurence Fink, J Richard Kushel, Robert L Goldstein, Mark Mccombe, Rachel Lord, Manish Mehta, Christopher J Meade, Mark Wiedman, Marc D Comerchero, Pamela Daley, Martin Small and Stephen Cohen.
View institutional ownership trends.

How do I buy shares of BlackRock?

Shares of BLK stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.

What other stocks do shareholders of BlackRock own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that BlackRock investors own include Broadcom (AVGO), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), ServiceNow (NOW), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Meta Platforms (META) and Salesforce (CRM).

Company Calendar

• Record date for 6/23 Dividend: 6/05/2025
• Ex-Dividend for 6/23 Dividend: 6/05/2025
• Dividend Payable: 6/23/2025
• Last Earnings: 7/15/2025
• Today: 8/01/2025
• Record date for 9/23 Dividend: 9/05/2025
• Ex-Dividend for 9/23 Dividend: 9/05/2025
• Dividend Payable: 9/23/2025
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 10/10/2025
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2025

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Finance
• Industry: FIN - INVEST MGMT
• Sub-Industry: Asset Management & Custody Banks
• Current Symbol: NYSE:BLK
• CIK: 1364742
• Web: www.blackrock.com
• Phone: (212) 810-5300
• Fax: 212-754-8777
• Employees: 21,100
• Year Founded: 1988

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for BlackRock: $1,151.21
• High Price Target: $1,275.00
• Low Price Target: $980.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +5.7%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.86
• Research Coverage: 14 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $41.36
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 26.35
• Forward P/E Ratio: 22.98
• P/E Growth: 2.25
• Net Income: $6.37 billion
• Net Margins: 29.68%
• Pretax Margin: 38.86%
• Return on Equity: 15.83%
• Return on Assets: 5.26%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.38
• Current Ratio: 4.34
• Quick Ratio: 4.34

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $20.41 billion
• Price / Sales: 8.27
• Cash Flow: $45.38 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 24.01
• Book Value: $307.71 per share
• Price / Book: 3.54

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 154,930,000
• Free Float: 151,858,000
• Market Cap: $168.81 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.41