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What Should Investors Know About Blackstone (BX) Stock?

After moving 1.5% during today's evening session, Blackstone is now trading at a price of $99.69 per share. On average, analysts give it a target price of $112.94.

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.

Potential Blackstone Investors Should Analyze the Following:

  • Blackstone has moved -1.0% over the last year.

  • The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 2.06. A number between 0 and 1 could mean that the market is undervaluing Blackstone's estimated growth potential

  • Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 9.85

  • Blackstone currently returns an annual dividend yield of 3.5%.

Understanding Blackstone's Operating Margins

Date Reported Total Revenue ($ k) Operating Expenses ($ k) Operating Margins (%) YoY Growth (%)
2023-02-24 8,517,673 -1,123,346 28 -63.16
2022-02-25 22,577,148 -928,223 76 76.74
2021-02-26 6,101,927 -724,646 43 -23.21
2020-02-28 7,338,270 -697,146 56 9.8
2019-03-01 6,833,259 -673,359 51 2.0
2018-03-01 7,119,053 -599,103 50

Over the last 6 years, Blackstone's operating margins have averaged 50.7%, which is better than the 18.36% Asset Management industry average. We also note that the company's operating margins have a high coefficient of variability at 31.1%. However the firm's margins are declining at a compounded yearly rate of -9.2%.

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