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Company Profile & Ownership

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, New York with additional offices in A

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BlackRock Inc

Common Stock · Financials · Asset Management & Custody Banks

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Company

Company / asset: BlackRock Inc
Security type: Common Stock
Sector: Financials
Industry: Asset Management & Custody Banks
HQ: 🇺🇸 United States
Head office: 50 Hudson Yards, New York, NY, United States, 10001

Leadership & scale

Chief executive: Mr. Laurence Douglas Fink
CEO year born: 1952
Full-time employees: 26.2K
Fiscal year end: December
IPO date: 1999-10-01

Fundamentals snapshot

Updated 2026-09-16

Market Cap: USD 176.3B
P/E: 26.8x
Revenue (Q2 26): USD 7.1B
Profit (Q2 26): USD 1.9B
Dividend Yield: 1.5%
Revenue (FY 25): USD 24.2B
Shares in public float: 143.8M
Insider ownership: 1.92%

Reporting & identifiers

Symbol: BLK.NYSE
Listing: 🇺🇸 United States | Dividend Tax: 30%
Ticker Currency: USD
Income Statement Currency: USD
Balance Sheet Currency: USD
Cash Flow Currency: USD
EPS Currency: USD
Contract Type: SPOT
ISIN: US09290D1019
Asset ID: equity_ac3e6235-70fa-509a-9137-88ef0f3b9a1e

Ownership

Shares Outstanding

Shares outstanding

Annual reported shares outstanding. Values in shares.

Top holders

BlackRock Inc10,132,776 shares · 6.54% · Reported 2026-03-31
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC9,240,600 shares · 5.97% · Reported 2026-03-31
State Street Corp6,278,663 shares · 4.05% · Reported 2026-03-31
Bank of America Corp5,232,973 shares · 3.38% · Reported 2026-03-31
Temasek Holdings Ltd.5,195,165 shares · 3.35% · Reported 2026-06-30
Wellington Management Company LLP4,495,074 shares · 2.90% · Reported 2026-06-30
Capital Research Global Investors4,458,212 shares · 2.88% · Reported 2026-06-30

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Vanguard MStar Total Stk Mkt Idx Invest4,448,775 shares · 2.87% · Reported 2026-07-31
Vanguard 500 Index Investor3,787,617 shares · 2.45% · Reported 2026-07-31
Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC3,531,954 shares · 2.28% · Reported 2026-03-31
Morgan Stanley - Brokerage Accounts3,437,546 shares · 2.22% · Reported 2026-03-31
Geode Capital Management, LLC3,253,795 shares · 2.10% · Reported 2026-03-31
NORGES BANK2,831,565 shares · 1.83% · Reported 2026-06-30
Wells Fargo & Co2,476,370 shares · 1.60% · Reported 2026-03-31
Franklin Templeton Inc2,228,886 shares · 1.44% · Reported 2026-03-31

Earnings, Profitability & Valuation

Earnings & Revenue

AI Review

The financial reports show that the company is in a highly resilient position, highlighted by a massive surge in net income and strong revenue growth in early 2026. Experts agree that the company's core cash-generating engine is incredibly strong, supported by steady inflows into its exchange-traded funds. However, there is some disagreement about the near-term outlook. Some analysts caution that the company's earnings are still heavily tied to overall stock market performance, meaning a prolonged market downturn could drag down fee revenues. Others are much more optimistic, pointing out that the company is successfully shifting its business toward high-margin technology services and private market investments. This shift is expected to create a more stable, predictable, and highly profitable earnings stream that can easily withstand broader economic challenges.

Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow

Revenue
Free cash flow
Net income

Annual reported financial results, converted using the statement's recorded USD conversion. Missing values are omitted. Values in USD.

Valuation

Historical P/E Ratio

Published P/E

Published valuation snapshots. Trailing four-quarter earnings where available; annual earnings otherwise. Non-positive earnings are omitted. Values in times earnings.

Profitability & Margins

AI Review

The company maintains highly impressive profit margins that far exceed those of traditional financial firms. While recent GAAP operating margins showed temporary compression due to one-time acquisition costs, the underlying adjusted margins remain exceptionally strong, hovering in the mid-40% range. There is strong consensus that will expand over the long term. This positive outlook is driven by the company's shift toward high-margin technology subscriptions and private market fees, which will easily offset any fee pressure in its standard index fund business. However, some analysts disagree on the timing of this expansion, warning that integration costs from recent acquisitions could keep margins slightly pressured in the near term. Despite these minor differences, the overall view is highly positive, as the company's massive scale and software-like business model ensure highly profitable growth.

Profitability Margins

Gross margin
Operating margin
Net margin
Free cash flow margin

Annual gross, operating, net income and free cash flow divided by revenue for matching reporting dates. Values in percent.

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Source: eodhd. Statement snapshots with chart transformations and ratios calculated by iPulse AI. Snapshot retrieved 2026-09-17.

Annual earnings and profitability
Period end	Revenue	Free cash flow	Net income	Gross margin	Operating margin	Net margin	Free cash flow margin
2016-12-31	12,261,000,000	2,035,000,000	3,172,000,000	49.08	37.27	25.87	16.6
2017-12-31	13,600,000,000	3,673,000,000	4,952,000,000	49.92	38.63	36.41	27.01
2018-12-31	14,198,000,000	2,871,000,000	4,305,000,000	50.75	38.43	30.32	20.22
2019-12-31	14,539,000,000	2,630,000,000	4,476,000,000	50.94	38.18	30.79	18.09
2020-12-31	16,205,000,000	3,549,000,000	4,932,000,000	51.01	35.14	30.44	21.9
2021-12-31	19,374,000,000	4,603,000,000	5,901,000,000	50.68	38.45	30.46	23.76
2022-12-31	17,873,000,000	4,423,000,000	5,178,000,000	48.59	35.72	28.97	24.75
2023-12-31	17,859,000,000	3,821,000,000	5,502,000,000	48.05	35.14	30.81	21.4
2024-12-31	20,407,000,000	4,701,000,000	6,369,000,000	49.42	37.11	31.21	23.04
2025-12-31	24,216,000,000	3,552,000,000	5,553,000,000	46.7	29.08	22.93	14.67

Published valuation snapshots
Period end	P/E (times earnings)	Earnings basis
2025-12-31	31.88	Trailing four quarters
2024-12-31	25.27	Trailing four quarters
2023-12-31	22.16	Trailing four quarters
2022-12-31	20.78	Annual net income
2021-12-31	24.08	Annual net income

Shares outstanding — chart values
Reporting date	Shares outstanding
2017-01-01	164,457,800
2018-01-01	161,094,600
2019-01-01	157,524,300
2020-01-01	155,133,400
2021-01-01	155,184,900
2022-01-01	151,839,400
2023-01-01	150,200,000
2024-01-01	157,000,000
2025-01-01	165,400,000
2026-01-01	164,800,000

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