BX - The Blackstone Group L.P.
43.40 +0.01 (0.02%)
After hours: 6:40PM EDT
| Previous Close | 44.24 |
| Open | 44.60 |
| Bid | 43.37 x 3100 |
| Ask | 43.45 x 800 |
| Day's Range | 43.19 - 44.83 |
| 52 Week Range | 26.88 - 45.38 |
| Volume | 7,654,071 |
| Avg. Volume | 4,421,856 |
| Market Cap | 49.772B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 1.61 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 17.83 |
| EPS (TTM) | 2.43 |
| Earnings Date | Jul 17, 2019 - Jul 22, 2019 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 1.48 (3.91%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | 2019-04-26 |
| 1y Target Est | 46.09 |
- Bloomberg•3 hours ago
Blackstone's Schwarzman Gives $188 Million to Oxford University
(Bloomberg) -- Stephen Schwarzman, head of Blackstone Group LP, has given 150 million pounds ($188 million) to the University of Oxford, the latest in a string of mega-donations to higher learning.The contribution is the largest in the university’s 800-year history, according to a person familiar with the gift. The money will help pay for a new humanities building and for the creation of a new institute for the study of the ethics of artificial intelligence, the person said. The Financial Times earlier reported the donation.It’s the latest outsized donation from Schwarzman, who emerged as a major philanthropist in 2008 with $100 million to the New York Public Library. In October, he gave $350 million to help establish a college of computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His name will also be on a campus center at Yale University and he created the Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University in Beijing to educate future global leaders about China.The donation is unusual for U.K. universities, whose fundraising efforts trail their counterparts in the U.S. When hedge fund manager David Harding gave 100 million pounds to Cambridge University in February, it was at the time the biggest single private gift to a U.K. college from a British philanthropist.Teaching in Oxford dates back to at least 1096, according to the university’s website. It was formally recognized by the early 13th century and has educated 27 British prime ministers including Theresa May, and her potential successor Boris Johnson.To contact the reporter on this story: Heather Perlberg in Washington at hperlberg@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Pierre Paulden at ppaulden@bloomberg.net, Josh Friedman, Dan ReichlFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Reuters•3 hours ago
Blackstone chief donates $150 million to Oxford University
The head of private equity firm Blackstone has pledged $150 million to Oxford University, the biggest single donation in its history, to fund a center for humanities that would also house an institute to study the ethics of artificial intelligence. Stephen Schwarzman, chairman, chief executive and co-founder of Blackstone which has about $500 billion in assets, said the donation would fund the Schwarzman Center that would support programs ranging from history to music.
- Zacks•4 hours ago
Blackstone Group (BX) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Blackstone Group (BX) closed at $43.39, marking a -1.92% move from the previous day.
- Zacks•15 hours ago
Here's Why it is Wise to Hold on to Blackstone (BX) Stock Now
While higher costs are likely to hurt Blackstone's (BX) profits, its inorganic growth efforts and continued asset inflows will aid top line.
- Financial Times•15 hours ago
Blackstone boss hands Oxford record £150m gift
Stephen Schwarzman, one of America’s richest businessmen, has given Oxford university its largest single donation in modern history by providing it with £150m, it was announced on Wednesday. The chairman, chief executive and co-founder of Blackstone, the world largest’s private equity firm, said his £150m donation to Oxford was “complementary” to his $350m contribution last year to the Schwarzman college of computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he considered the best AI research centre. Mr Schwarzman, who was estimated last year by Forbes to be worth $12.4bn, told the Financial Times that his contribution to Oxford would help bring its “world leading expertise on ethics and philosophy” to AI.
- Moody's•2 days ago
Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. -- Moody's affirms the Baa3 rating at Sabine Pass Liquefaction and the Ba2 ratings at affiliate Cheniere Energy Partners
Moody's Investors Service today affirmed the Baa3 rating assigned to Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC's (SPL) senior secured bonds as well as the Ba2 Corporate Family Rating (CFR) and Ba2 rating assigned to Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P's (CQP) senior unsecured notes. The outlooks for SPL and CQP are stable.
- Moody's•2 days ago
Michaels Stores, Inc. -- Moody's assigns a B1 to Michaels sr unsecured notes
Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") assigned a B1 to Michaels Stores, Inc.'s proposed 8 year $500 million senior unsecured note offering. Moody's affirmed Michaels' Ba2 Corporate Family rating, Ba2-PD Probability of Default ratings, and Ba2 senior secured rating. "This refinancing extends Michael's debt maturity ladder in a leverage neutral transaction thereby improving the company's overall credit profile".
- Bloomberg•2 days ago
Wall Street's Social Calendar Swells as Summer Tee Times Beckon
(Bloomberg) -- What does Wall Street do before disappearing for a few months of golf, tennis and beach-side soirees?Binge on benefits, of course. Because there’s no better way to earn some rest and relaxation than by enduring lukewarm entrees, too-long speeches and too many air kisses, all while raising money for nonprofits.Not to be jaded or anything. As Robert Steel said of his recent binge, attending an event for Hospital for Special Surgery, which he serves as a co-chairman with Thomas Lister of Permira, “They’re like my children, I love them all.”One advantage of New York this time of year is that some of the benefits are outdoors. The Public Theater convened with roller skaters at the Delacorte Theater where it presents Shakespeare. Palm trees swayed in light Bronx breezes as the New York Botanical Garden raised almost $2.2 million and honored Chairwoman emerita Maureen Chilton.The Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the Bronx Zoo, went south to the Central Park Zoo, where the sea lions squealed and fed on fish.That wasn’t wild enough for Paul Tudor Jones.“One day -- it’s on my bucket list -- I want to go up to the Arctic and see a polar bear,” Jones said. “I have a huge spot for them in my heart because they’re always hungry looking for something to eat. I want them to find a washed-up whale and eat forever.”Julian Robertson said he’d gone eye-to-eye with his dog Bear earlier in the evening, while Averell Harriman Mortimer reminisced about the flying squirrels he kept as a kid in his Manhattan apartment.“Running Goldman Sachs equipped me for dealing with all species and manners of wildlife,” Lloyd Blankfein said.“Some of whom are endangered,” added Goldman Sachs lead director and private equity investor Adebayo Ogunlesi.In the Summer Garden & Bar at Rockefeller Center, Leon Black and his wife, Debra, joined Mike Milken and more than a thousand leveraged-finance professionals at a benefit for the Melanoma Research Alliance, which the Blacks founded. Then he presided at the Museum of Modern Art’s Party in the Garden to honor Alice Tisch and others. A day later, Black was at the Central Park Conservancy’s Taste of Summer, where Italian bistro Sistina served ravioli.The most important stat on his gala scorecard?“We’re up more than 20%,” Black said at the melanoma event, crediting Jeff Rowbottom of PSP Investments and Brendan Dillon of UBS for helping raise $2.4 million. The alliance’s funding has played a role in 12 drugs that received government approval.Andrew Tsai of Chalkstream Capital Group (named for the rivers in England where he learned fly fishing) said breakthroughs in treating skin cancers are leading to therapies for other types of the disease. He’s working to make that happen as co-chairman of the Cancer Research Institute, which has focused on immunotherapy for more than 50 years.“I want to make sure we do not stop until every single cancer type has been addressed in a significant way,” Tsai said at the institute’s Through the Kitchen benefit, where guests served themselves from buffets set up in the kitchen of the Pool & the Grill, then dined at comic strip-themed tables (Ken Langone sat with a cardboard cutout of Betty Boop).During dinner at the French consulate for the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance, Bill Ackman committed $4.2 million to seven investigators, including Yael David, who studies how cancer cells react to sugar.As for those speeches, some managed to cut through the chatter.For an audience including David Einhorn and Marc Spilker, outgoing New 42nd Street President Cora Cahan described how the rigor of her modern dance career guided her in bringing a theater for families -- the New Victory -- to a seedy block.“Every day you dared not be satisfied,” she said. “And the next day you tried to do it all a little bit better, a little bit deeper, and a little bit higher.”The transformation of the New York Public Library, a few blocks east on 42nd Street, was also celebrated when Carnegie Hall presented its Medal of Excellence to Vartan Gregorian, head of the Carnegie Corporation.Author Robert Caro recalled what it was like to write “The Power Broker” at the library in the early ’70s, when hours were being cut, plywood covered marble and soot hid the beauty of the facade. He said things changed in the ’80s when Gregorian became the library’s president, which Caro discovered when he pulled up to the library with his wife to attend a gala.“There were three guys standing there in red English hunting coats, holding French horns,” Caro said. “As Ina and I got out of the car, they blew a fanfare.”Singer Lizzo blew out a speaker while performing at a UJA-Federation of New York benefit and she was even better without it at the event honoring IHeartRadio executives.Ethan Hawke, who appeared at a benefit for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, cut to the chase. “If a place like BAM doesn’t exist, then the mental health of all of NYC is deteriorating,” Hawke said.He could have been speaking at any number of fundraisers around town: the one for Prep for Prep that raised $3.8 million honoring Paul Taubman, the Moth Ball supporting the therapeutic process of storytelling where guests included Adam Dell and Scott Lawin, the 92nd Street Y benefit with seven dinners highlighting a different way the institution serves the community (from summer camps to jewelry classes; Thomas Kaplan hosted one on foreign affairs).Robert Smith emphasized the power of live music to level the playing field. The Apollo Theater’s stage is a meritocracy because “regardless of who you are or where you came from, by the end of the set, you know exactly how good you are,” he said in a video that played at a benefit for the Harlem venue.On another night, Smith joked he and guests had finally made it by getting to have dinner on the stage of Carnegie Hall. But then he clarified. “For us, making it isn’t just dining on the stage,” he said. “It’s taking this hall to thousands of people every single year through the artistic and educational programming that we’ve been able to build, support and sustain.”\--With assistance from Sophie Alexander.To contact the reporter on this story: Amanda Gordon in New York at agordon01@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Pierre Paulden at ppaulden@bloomberg.net, Steven CrabillFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- MoneyShow•2 days ago
Blackstone- A Blue Chip in Private Equity
With institutional capital's flight from hedge funds into the private equity sector, expect blue chip firms like Blackstone (BX) to continue to increase raise enormous funds, suggests John Freund, income and growth specialist and editor of BullMarket Report.
- Barrons.com•4 days ago
Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman and Other Visionary Founders on Our List of the World’s Best CEOs
With patience and skill, Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman helped build an alternative-investment powerhouse that soon will be available to a much larger universe of investors.
- PR Newswire•5 days ago
Blackstone Mortgage Trust Declares $0.62 Per Share Dividend
NEW YORK, June 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc. (BXMT) today declared a dividend of $0.62 per share of class A common stock with respect to the second quarter of 2019. Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT) is a real estate finance company that originates senior loans collateralized by commercial real estate in North America, Europe, and Australia. Blackstone (BX) is one of the world's leading investment firms.
- Business Wire•5 days ago
GSO Capital Partners' Second Energy Select Opportunities Fund Strategy Closes on $4.5 Billion in LP Commitments
GSO Capital Partners, Blackstone’s (BX) credit platform, today announced the final closing of the GSO Energy Select Opportunities Fund II strategy (“the Fund”), at $4.5 billion. With strong support from both existing and new investors, the Fund is among the largest dedicated energy-focused credit funds in the market. GSO sourced commitments from a global investor base, including U.S. state, corporate and international pension funds, financial institutions, endowments, foundations and family offices.
- American City Business Journals•6 days ago
Indicators suggest Blackstone may be changing its real estate strategy
Residential appraiser Ryan Lundquist said he was intrigued when he spotted about 10 Blackstone-owned homes for sale this month locally.
- Investopedia•7 days ago
8 Financial Stocks That Can Thrive Amid an Inverted Yield Curve
Investors seeking financial stocks that can outperform amid the market's crosscurrents in 2019 might consider eight financial services companies in industries such as exchanges, property insurance, alternative asset management, and mortgages. While banks are currently rebounding in the latest rally, their profits are likely to be pressured by an inverted yield curve that will squeeze earnings.
- Financial Times•7 days ago
Correction: Blackstone
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager, rather than the largest asset manager as incorrectly stated in an article on June 12. Copyright © 2015 The Financial Times Limited. Please don't ...
- Zacks•8 days ago
Blackstone Group (BX) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Blackstone Group (BX) closed at $42.80, marking a +0.82% move from the previous day.
- Insider Monkey•8 days ago
Did Hedge Funds Drop The Ball On The Blackstone Group L.P. (BX)?
World-class money managers like Ken Griffin and Barry Rosenstein only invest their wealthy clients' money after undertaking a rigorous examination of any potential stock. They are particularly successful in this regard when it comes to small-cap stocks, which their peerless research gives them a big information advantage on when it comes to judging their worth. […]
- TheStreet.com•8 days ago
Blackstone Group Could Rally Further in the Months Ahead
In this daily bar chart of BX, below, we can see heavy volume in December as prices reversed from a downtrend to an uptrend. Prices and the On-Balance-Volume (OBV) line made a "V"-like bottom. In this weekly bar chart of BX, below, we can see an advance the past three years.
- Bloomberg•8 days ago
Blackstone's Tony James Backs Mount Sinai's $100 Million AI Push
Eight months after Chief Executive Officer Steve Schwarzman pledged $350 million to establish a college of computing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Executive Vice Chairman Tony James and wife Amabel are providing the funds to create a center for artificial intelligence and human health at Mount Sinai’s medical school in New York.
- Financial Times•8 days ago
Jeffrey Talpins’ Element Capital cuts manager numbers
Element Capital’s Jeffrey Talpins, one of the hedge fund industry’s biggest but least-known stars, is cutting about a tenth of his employees, according to people with knowledge of the plans. Although largely unknown outside the money management world, Mr Talpins’ Element has emerged as one of the most successful “macro” hedge funds in an industry whose luminaries include Paul Tudor Jones, Alan Howard and Louis Bacon. Element’s $18bn hedge fund has averaged annual returns of more than 20 per cent since 2005, producing steady and strong gains and never suffering a down year over a turbulent period that has wrongfooted many other macro hedge funds, which bet on big economic trends.
- Financial Times•8 days ago
Deutsche Bank threatens to axe 1,000 clients in compliance push
Deutsche Bank has warned almost 1,000 corporate clients that they will lose access to basic banking services within weeks because it has not received documents needed to verify their identity. The Frankfurt-based lender has sent hundreds of the termination letters to blue-chip companies, underscoring how banks are scrambling to meet tougher anti-money laundering rules introduced by regulators around the world in recent years.
- Bloomberg•12 days ago
Blackstone Plans $6.8 Billion European Urban Warehouse Unit
The private-equity giant is in the process of hiring an executive to run the company, which will manage its holdings of logistics properties close to towns and cities, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Blackstone has led a wave of investment into urban warehouses, betting that demand from online retailers such as Amazon.com Inc. will continue to push up rents and values. The last-mile logistics facilities, so called because of their proximity to population centers, are currently overseen by M7 Real Estate in a venture with Blackstone, they said.
- Bloomberg•12 days ago
Blackstone Money Awaited in India to Avert Shadow Lender Default
Dewan Housing Finance Corp. is already behind schedule in meeting debt obligations as it missed paying 9.6 billion rupees of interest that was due on Tuesday on bonds, a company official said, adding that the debt would be serviced in the next seven days. The home financier is expected to get money from Blackstone Group LP on Monday from a previously agreed group unit sale. Timely repayment by Dewan Housing will help allay wariness in the nation’s credit markets, where infrastructure financier IL&FS Group’s default last year has prompted investors to stay away from debt of shadow lenders.
