Blackstone Inc. (BX) Stock

About Blackstone Inc.

Blackstone Inc. is led by CEO Stephen Allen Schwarzman, employs 4,895 people, headquartered in New York City, US, publicly traded since 2007.

Blackstone Inc. (BX) stock trades at $112.71 with a market capitalization of $136.15B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 26.32, price-to-book of 10.29, price-to-sales of 8.92. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $101.73 and $178.29, and currently trades 36.8% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 4.36%.

On profitability, Blackstone Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 40.87% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 18.00%, an operating margin of 51.91%, a net profit margin of 21.93%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Blackstone Inc. reported annual revenue of $13.8B, net profit of $3.0B, revenue has compounded at 20.7% a year over the last five years, profit at 23.6% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.56, a current ratio of 0.91, total assets of $47.7B, $2.6B in cash and equivalents.

BX has an average daily trading volume of 4,690,356 shares, a beta of 1.56 (more volatile than the overall market).