BX - Blackstone Inc.
Blackstone trades at a steep discount despite record $1.3T AUM and 25% YoY distributable earnings growth in Q1. BX is now the world's largest data center investor, with $160B in facilities and a pipeline to potentially double capacity. Fee-related earnings grew 23% YoY; management highlights BX as a premier AI infrastructure play with robust dividend yield near 3.8%.
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman introduced Ode with Anthropic (“Ode”), the AI services firm announced earlier this year, now launching under its official name and brand. Ode is a standalone company that combines Anthropic's frontier AI models, a team of experienced AI engineers and operators, and the backing of a consortium of leading investors. Alongside the founding partners, the investor consortium includes Goldman Sachs, General Atlan.
AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have spun up separate businesses dedicated to deploying AI engineers to their customers' offices — a bet that assisting businesses in figuring out how to use their AI models is the next trillion-dollar category.
WMB secures a $5.34 billion Blackstone-led investment to accelerate five Power Innovation projects while retaining control and boosting financial flexibility.
Blackstone Inc. is a high-quality asset manager trading at an attractive valuation, offering a compelling Buy opportunity ahead of Q2 earnings. BX benefits from strong industry tailwinds—higher inflation, global wealth growth, demographic shifts, and AI infrastructure exposure—driving robust capital inflows and AUM growth. BX has a history of outperforming conservative analyst EPS estimates, with potential for double-digit earnings growth and positive Q2 surprises.
U.S. pipeline operator Williams said on Monday a consortium led by Blackstone will invest $5.34 billion for a 49% noncontrolling stake in five of its behind-the-meter power generation projects.
Business Insider sat in exclusively on Blackstone President Jon Gray's advice to summer interns. Gray told them that a trifecta of traits will help them get ahead at the firm.
Direct lending by U.S. private credit firms fell sharply in the second quarter even as fund-raising by such firms rebounded, underscoring the deviation between capital raised for the asset class and the deal flow to absorb it.
Private equity groups Blackstone and TPG are seeking more than $4 billion for medical technology firm Hologic's surgical unit, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Investors looking for stocks in the Financial - Miscellaneous Services sector might want to consider either Orix (IX) or Blackstone Inc. (BX). But which of these two stocks is more attractive to value investors?
NEW YORK & HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced that funds managed by Blackstone Energy Transition Partners (“Blackstone”) have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dresser Utility Solutions (“Dresser”), a premier provider of mission-critical natural gas and water measurement, control and infrastructure equipment solutions, from First Reserve. This represents the first investment of the most recent vintage of Blackstone's private equity energy transition veh.
Blackstone, CVC Capital Partners and Japan's MUFG are among bidders for a stake in Vietnamese fintech firm MoMo as it presses ahead with a partial sale, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Blackstone's applied AI engineers drive AI transformation across the firm's investors' processes. The job requires technical building skills, but also lots of meetings to keep everyone aligned.
Blackstone's QTS said on Thursday it had terminated its planned Digital Gateway data center project in Virginia and withdrawn the associated filings after years of planning and regulatory review.
For most of the post-2008 era, Oppenheimer's Chris Kotowski was the guy telling you to keep buying the big banks.
Let us begin with a midyear summary of index results that might surprise you in light of the triple-digit gains for so many growth stocks in the S&P 500.
Digital Realty said Tuesday is purchasing a $3.5 billion stake in three data centers from Blackstone. The global data center firm fell in premarket trading following the announcement.
AUSTIN, Texas, June 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today the pricing of an underwritten registered public offering of 12,310,249 shares of its common stock by affiliates of Blackstone Inc. (collectively, “Blackstone”) at a public offering price of $185.00 per share. The shares of common stock being sold in this offering will be issued to Blackstone upon the closing of the acquisition by the company of Blackstone's interests in the Digital Carver Dulles 9 and Digital Carver Brickyard joint ventures (the "Blackstone Acquisition"), which is expected to occur on June 30, 2026. Each share of non-voting common stock will automatically convert into one share of the company's common stock upon its transfer by Blackstone in connection with this offering.
Digital Realty said on Monday it would acquire a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers from Blackstone-managed funds in a deal valuing the assets at $7.8 billion.
AUSTIN, Texas, June 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today an underwritten registered public offering of $2,346 million of shares of its common stock by affiliates of Blackstone Inc. (collectively, “Blackstone”). The shares to be sold in the offering consist of shares of non-voting common stock that will be issued to Blackstone only upon the closing of the previously announced acquisition by the company of Blackstone's interests in the Digital Carver Dulles 9 and Digital Carver Brickyard joint ventures (the “Blackstone Acquisition”), which is expected to close on June 30, 2026. Upon transfer of the non-voting common stock by Blackstone in connection with this offering, such shares will automatically convert into shares of common stock. The offering is conditioned upon the closing of the Blackstone Acquisition and the issuance of the non-voting common stock to Blackstone.