Blackstone rose 3.9% during the morning session to $77.06 per share. As reported by Wall Street Journal: "The University of California is putting $4 billion into a Blackstone real-estate vehicle aimed at individual investors, providing crucial ballast for a fund that has been beset by a wave of redemptions." You can read more about it here. For those of you thinking about investing in the stock, here is a brief look at the company's fundamentals.
Blackstone Inc. is an alternative asset management firm specializing in real estate, private equity, hedge fund solutions, credit, secondary funds of funds, public debt and equity and multi-asset class strategies. The company belongs to the Financial Services sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 13.34 and an average price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.95. In contrast, Blackstone has a trailing 12 month P/E ratio of 21.8 and a P/B ratio of 7.2.
Blackstone has moved -40.6% over the last year compared to -19.9% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -20.7%. Blackstone has a 52 week high of $138.95 and a 52 week low of $71.72. At today's price of $77.06 per share, Blackstone is -19.92% away from its target price of $96.23, and on average, analysts give the stock a rating of buy. 2.9% of the company's shares are linked to short positions, and 64.4% of the shares are owned by institutional investors.
