BLK
BlackRock, Inc.Financial ServicesAsset ManagementIncome
$1085.55 · 15min delay
β 1.46A high-quality large-cap income stock trading near fair value.
52-wk low $917.3952-wk high $1219.94
Mkt Cap
$168.51B
P/E
—
PEG
1.38
P/B
2.98
Dividend
2.12%
ROE
11.9%
About the business
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 Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Greenwich, Connecticut; Houston, Texas; Miami, Florida; Newport Beach, California; Palo Alto, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Princeton, New Jersey; San Francisco, California; Santa Monica, California; Seattle, Washington; Washington, DC; West Palm Beach, Florida; Wilmington, Delaware; Mexico; Canada; South Africa; Netherlands; Greece; Serbia; Belgium; Hungary; Denmark; Ireland; Scotland; Germany; Switzerland; England; Luxembourg; Spain; Italy; France; Sweden; Austria; India; China; Australia; Hong Kong; South Korea; Singapore; Taiwan; Japan; Colombia; Argentina; Peru; Chile; Brazil; UAE; Saudi Arabia; Israel.
Who would buy BLK?
Consensus 33/100 · Aligned · Investors mostly agree.
2 10 3
Endorses
· 2 frameworks- Dividend Growth School· Dividend Income88/100
Dividend Yield > 2% 2.1% clears "> 2.0%".
- Howard Marks· Marks Risk-First83/100
Debt/Equity < 0.5 0.24 clears "< 0.50".
Rejects
· 3 frameworks- Joel Greenblatt
Insider activity · Negative
Insider selling outweighs buying
Strength 65/100
6 insiders sold $168.8M on a discretionary basis. Discretionary selling carries more signal than planned disposals, but insiders sell for many non-thesis reasons (taxes, diversification, life events) — do not over-read it. Over the 6M window, insiders are net buyers by 94,396 shares.
In Prism's context
Insider selling is worth flagging but insiders sell for many non-thesis reasons. Read alongside the framework verdict (Weak match).
| Insider | Role | Type | Date | Shares | Avg price | Value | Own |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FINK LAURENCE D | Chief Executive Officer | Open-market sell | Apr 28, 2026 | 33,900 | $1050.55 | $35.61M | Direct |
| KAPITO ROBERT S | President | Open-market sell | Apr 27, 2026 | 8,739 | $1056.60 | $9.23M | Direct |
| FORD WILLIAM E | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 38 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| VESTBERG HANS ERIK | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 36 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| LEMKAU GREGG | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 29 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| NASSER AMIN H | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 30 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| MURPHY KATHLEEN | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 40 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| ROBBINS CHARLES H | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 30 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| NIXON, GORDON MELBOURNE | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 38 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| PECK KRISTIN C | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 34 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| DALEY PAMELA | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 40 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| JOHNSON MARGARET L | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 37 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| FREDA FABRIZIO | Director | Award / grant | Mar 31, 2026 | 21 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| KUSHEL J RICHARD | Officer | Open-market sell | Feb 24, 2026 | 2,385 | $1083.35 | $2.58M | — |
| COHEN STEPHEN | Officer | Open-market sell | Feb 23, 2026 | 225 | $1069.56 | $241K | Direct |
| COHEN STEPHEN | Officer | Stock Gift at price 0.00 per share. | Feb 19, 2026 | 657 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| GOLDSTEIN ROBERT L | Chief Operating Officer | Stock Gift at price 0.00 per share. | Feb 13, 2026 | 8,634 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| COHEN STEPHEN | Officer | Open-market sell | Feb 11, 2026 | 2,179 | $1073.87 | $2.34M | Direct |
| GOLDSTEIN ROBERT L | Chief Operating Officer | Open-market sell | Feb 11, 2026 | 59,483 | $1087.02 | $64.66M | Direct |
| GOLDSTEIN ROBERT L | Chief Operating Officer | Option exercise | Feb 10, 2026 | 54,190 | $513.50 | $27.83M | Direct |
| JOHNSON MARGARET L | Director | Stock Gift at price 0.00 per share. | Feb 4, 2026 | 419 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| KAPITO ROBERT S | President | Award / grant | Jan 30, 2026 | 15,289 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| MEADE CHRISTOPHER J | General Counsel | Award / grant | Jan 30, 2026 | 5,175 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| LORD RACHEL | Officer | Award / grant | Jan 30, 2026 | 6,308 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| COHEN STEPHEN | Officer | Award / grant | Jan 30, 2026 | 3,771 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| HELLER CAROLINE | Officer | Award / grant | Jan 30, 2026 | 627 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| SMALL MARTIN | Chief Financial Officer | Award / grant | Jan 30, 2026 | 5,292 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| GOLDSTEIN ROBERT L | Chief Operating Officer | Award / grant | Jan 30, 2026 | 9,173 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| COMERCHERO MARC D | Officer | Award / grant | Jan 30, 2026 | 549 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| KUSHEL J RICHARD | Officer | Award / grant | Jan 30, 2026 | 6,272 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| FINK LAURENCE D | Chief Executive Officer | Award / grant | Jan 30, 2026 | 19,914 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| LEMKAU GREGG | Director | Award / grant | Jan 27, 2026 | 225 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| KUSHEL J RICHARD | Officer | Open-market sell | Jan 21, 2026 | 20,000 | $1125.00 | $22.50M | Direct |
| KUSHEL J RICHARD | Officer | Option exercise | Jan 21, 2026 | 20,000 | $513.50 | $10.27M | Direct |
| KAPITO ROBERT S | President | Award / grant | Jan 16, 2026 | 5,127 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| FORD WILLIAM E | Director | Award / grant | Jan 16, 2026 | 214 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| MEADE CHRISTOPHER J | General Counsel | Award / grant | Jan 16, 2026 | 2,500 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| VESTBERG HANS ERIK | Director | Award / grant | Jan 16, 2026 | 214 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| LORD RACHEL | Officer | Award / grant | Jan 16, 2026 | 2,339 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| COHEN STEPHEN | Officer | Award / grant | Jan 16, 2026 | 2,596 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
Showing 40 of 50 matching transactions.
Insider activity from Yahoo Finance (quoteSummary: insiderTransactions + netSharePurchaseActivity). Cached 6 hours. · Insiders hold 1.9% of shares outstanding.
Net 6M: +94,396 sh
Price history
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What would BLK do to your portfolio?
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Risk metrics
Sharpe, Sortino, volatility, max drawdown, beta — before and after.
Sector concentration
How much this shifts your top sector weight and overall diversification.
Archetype tilt
Whether this leans your book more toward Quality, Value, Growth, Deep Value, Income, or Momentum.
BLK is currently tagged:IncomeWeak match (33/100)
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Sign in to run this simulationProbabilistic recommendation· rec-v1.0.0-2026-04
BlackRock, Inc. · BLK
BLK: 57% estimated probability of outperforming over the next 12M window. 2 of 6 signal families positive (medium confidence). Strongest support: Op margin 36%. Main risk to monitor: 22% above fair value.
Outperform prob.
57%
vs S&P 500 · 12M
Expected return
-3.8% → +20.2%
mid +8.2% / yr
Downside (p20)
-17.5%
stress -34.9%
Data quality
98/100
Excellent
Prism Score
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Prism Score
Composite 69/100. Strongest contribution from quality; weakest from valuation.
Composite
69
/ 100
Deep valueval.
70/ 100
P/B 2.98× · FCF yield 4.2%
Margin of safetyval.
38/ 100
22% above fair value
Bull · base · bear scenarios
Three plausible paths over a 5-year horizon.
Indicative only. Probabilities are model-implied weights for stress-testing — not forecasts.
Bull
~20%$1161.21
+1.4% / yr (5y)
A turnaround takes hold: margin recovers toward peer averages, revenue stabilises, and the market re-prices the asset value rather than the running earnings.
Drivers
- • Margin expands by 200–400 bps from 36%
- • Stranded asset value crystallises
- • Multiple re-rates one full turn higher
Base
~45%$893.24
-3.8% / yr (5y)
No deterioration, no surprise re-acceleration. 36% operating margin and 27% top-line growth chug along; the multiple slowly converges to the central fair-value estimate.
Global value comparison
BlackRock, Inc. vs sector medians — GCC, MENA, and Global ex-US.
Sector: Financial Services. MENA-aware investors can sanity-check whether the US name is offering value relative to regional peers.
| Metric | BLK | GCC median | MENA median | Global ex-US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (TTM) | — | 11.2× | 8.5× | 11.5× |
| P/B | 2.98× | 1.70× | 1.20× | 1.30× |
| Dividend yield | 2.12% | 4.60% | 4.20% | 4.00% |
| ROE | 11.9% |
Earnings reaction explainer
BLK reported in line with consensus.
Reported EPS $12.53 vs $12.55 expected. With no surprise on the headline, the share-price reaction is usually driven by guidance, KPIs, or commentary on demand. Trailing operating margin: 35.6%.
- All audiencesNeutral
In-line prints transfer the conversation from the headline to the guidance, the segment mix, and management commentary on the demand environment.
What to watch on the next print
- • Segment-level KPIs vs estimates
- • Guidance vs current consensus for the next quarter
News & events
Next earnings
Wed, Jul 15 · consensus EPS $12.55 · last actual $12.53
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Key Metrics at a Glance
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/A
PEG Ratio
1.38
P/B Ratio
2.98
EPS Growth
45.9%
Revenue Growth
27.0%
Debt / Equity
0.24
Net Cash / Share
$-11.72
Return on Equity
11.9%
Gross Margin
46.9%
Operating Margin
35.6%
FCF / Share
$45.62
Current Ratio
2.17