NYSE:BX - Blackstone Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Blackstone Group announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 31st. Stockholders of record on Monday, February 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.61 per share on Tuesday, February 18th. This represents a $2.44 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.88%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 7th. This is a boost from Blackstone Group's previous quarterly dividend of $0.49. View Blackstone Group's Dividend History.

Blackstone Group LP (NYSE:BX) issued its earnings results on Thursday, January, 30th. The asset manager reported $0.72 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.06. The asset manager earned $2.09 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.55 billion. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 314.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted ($0.02) EPS. View Blackstone Group's Earnings History.

Blackstone Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 16th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Blackstone Group.

12 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Blackstone Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $52.00 to $73.00. On average, they expect Blackstone Group's share price to reach $60.80 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Blackstone Group.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Blackstone Group in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Blackstone Group.

Media headlines about BX stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Blackstone Group earned a media sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the asset manager a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Blackstone Group.

Blackstone Group saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 16,180,000 shares, a decline of 10.8% from the December 31st total of 18,140,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,020,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.0 days. Approximately 2.5% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Blackstone Group's Current Options Chain.

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Blackstone Group's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.26%), State Street Corp (1.02%), CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC (0.81%), FMR LLC (0.76%), Beck Mack & Oliver LLC (0.48%) and Fairview Capital Investment Management LLC (0.45%). Company insiders that own Blackstone Group stock include Bennett J Goodman, Blackstone Bgsl Holdings Llc, Blackstone Group Inc, Christopher Striano, Clarus Gp 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 GQG Partners LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, GVO Asset Management Ltd, FMR LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Sanders Morris Harris LLC, Coronation Fund Managers Ltd. and Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI. Company insiders that have sold Blackstone Group company stock in the last year include Bennett J Goodman, Blackstone Group Inc, Christopher Striano, Hamilton E James, Holdings LP Blackstone III, Joan Solotar and John G Finley. View Insider Buying and Selling for Blackstone Group.

BX stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Bessemer Group Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Artemis Investment Management LLP, UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and USS Investment Management Ltd. 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 and Holdings LP Blackstone III. View Insider Buying and Selling for Blackstone Group.

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One share of BX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $62.95.