Blackstone Group Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NYSE:BX)

Blackstone Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BX."

Blackstone Group announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 23rd. Stockholders of record on Monday, November 4th will be given a dividend of $0.49 per share on Tuesday, November 12th. This represents a $1.96 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.80%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 1st. This is an increase from Blackstone Group's previous quarterly dividend of $0.48. View Blackstone Group's Dividend History.

Blackstone Group LP (NYSE:BX) released its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The asset manager reported $0.58 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.05. The asset manager earned $1.74 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.31 billion. Blackstone Group had a net margin of 27.05% and a return on equity of 7.61%. Blackstone Group's revenue was down 9.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.63 EPS. View Blackstone Group's Earnings History.

Blackstone Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Blackstone Group.

10 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Blackstone Group's stock. Their forecasts range from $45.00 to $60.00. On average, they expect Blackstone Group's stock price to reach $52.63 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Blackstone Group.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Blackstone Group in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Blackstone Group.

News stories about BX stock have been trending positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Blackstone Group earned a daily sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the asset manager a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Blackstone Group.

Blackstone Group saw a decrease in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 14,900,000 shares, a decrease of 8.1% from the September 30th total of 16,210,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,400,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.3 days. Currently, 2.3% of the company's stock are short sold. View Blackstone Group's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Blackstone Group investors own include AT&T (T), Bank of America (BAC), Alibaba Group (BABA), Verizon Communications (VZ), AbbVie (ABBV), Micron Technology (MU), NVIDIA (NVDA), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

Blackstone Group's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.25%), CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC (0.62%), Beck Mack & Oliver LLC (0.48%), GVO Asset Management Ltd (0.28%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.26%) and USS Investment Management Ltd (0.23%). Company insiders that own Blackstone Group stock include Bennett J Goodman, Blackstone Bgsl Holdings Llc, Blackstone Group Inc, Christopher Striano, Clarus Gp LP Blackstone, Group LP Blackstone, Hamilton E James, Holdings LP Blackstone III, J Tomilson Hill, Joan Solotar and John G Finley. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Blackstone Group.

BX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, PM CAPITAL Ltd, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, LGT Capital Partners LTD., Beck Mack & Oliver LLC, Account Management LLC, Thomas Story & Son LLC and Focused Wealth Management Inc. Company insiders that have sold Blackstone Group company stock in the last year include Bennett J Goodman, Christopher Striano, Hamilton E James, Holdings LP Blackstone III and Joan Solotar. View Insider Buying and Selling for Blackstone Group.

BX stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, GVO Asset Management Ltd, USS Investment Management Ltd, Coronation Fund Managers Ltd., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Prospera Financial Services Inc, California Public Employees Retirement System and Cookson Peirce & Co. Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Blackstone Group stock in the last two years include Blackstone Bgsl Holdings Llc, Blackstone Group Inc, Clarus Gp LP Blackstone, Group LP Blackstone and Holdings LP Blackstone III. View Insider Buying and Selling for Blackstone Group.

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

One share of BX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $51.62.

Blackstone Group has a market capitalization of $34.04 billion and generates $6.83 billion in revenue each year. The asset manager earns $1.54 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.26 on an earnings per share basis. Blackstone Group employs 2,615 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Blackstone Group.

The official website for Blackstone Group is http://www.blackstone.com/.

Blackstone Group's mailing address is 345 Park Avenue, New York NY, 10154. The asset manager can be reached via phone at 212-583-5000 or via email at [email protected]