Stock · BLK · Financial Services

BlackRock Inc

United States · Large Cap · listed since 1999 · Revenue 12 mo. $28.5B

Price as of 11/06/2026

StockScorer score
1.8
of 10 2 of 11 points Not rated To the score
Price
$1,178.87
1 Y +0.6%
Market cap
$188.3B
Phase
Growth
revenue growing, core business profitable
Revenue +10.7% a year (3 years)EBIT margin 29.1%Payout 140.8% of operating cash flow

BlackRock, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager.

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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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Summary

BlackRock Inc is around the middle of the Financial Services sector overall

45.4 of 100

Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.

Analysis

What the price requires

The price requires 21.8% FCF growth a year, more than achieved over the last 5 and 10 years.

If free cash flow stays at €3.2B (2025), it supports €35.4B. The remaining €133.6B of the market value assume it grows 21.8% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.

Required FCF growth per year

21.8%

no growth afterwards

Market value breakdown€169B market value, price as of 11/06/2026

€35.4B without growth
€133.6B priced-in growth
  • 5 yrs achieved −1.4%
  • 10 yrs achieved 4.5%
  • priced in 21.8%

Valuation against its own history

Price to operating cash flow 68.2×, above its usual range.

Middle half of 19 quarters: 23.3× to 36.9×, median 29.3×.

Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.

2 signs support the expectation, 3 speak against it.

What supports it

with respect to the priced-in expectation

  • High, stable gross margin median 49.7%, range 4.3 pp (10 years)
  • Low capital needs capex median 1.5% of revenue (10 years)

What speaks against it

with respect to the priced-in expectation

  • Expectation above the company's own record priced in 21.8%, achieved at most 4.5%
  • Share count rising despite money spent on own shares shares +6.1% year on year
  • Dividend above free cash flow payout 100.7% of FCF

Since the last quarter

Q2 → Q3 2026

Mostly better than the previous quarter: 1 of 1 change for the better.

  • Gross margin55.7% → 65.0%+9.3 ppbetter

3 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., EBIT margin, Shares outstanding

Derivation

How the sector comparison is derived

Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.

Price as of 11/06/2026.

Profitability39.0below the middleEarns less than the sector: Gross margin 46.70%, sector 65.53%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Return on equity9.94%12.46%Rank 32
Return on capital (Greenblatt)24.44%59.04%Rank 36
EBIT margin29.08%23.06%Rank 67
FCF margin14.67%19.82%Rank 37
Gross margin46.70%65.53%Rank 23
Growth39.3below the middleGrows more slowly than the sector: Earnings growth, 5 years per year 1.62%, sector 15.17%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Revenue growth, 1 year18.67%7.39%Rank 73
Earnings growth, 3 years per year0.53%15.20%Rank 15
Earnings growth, 5 years per year1.62%15.17%Rank 13
Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings)1.55%1.25%Rank 57
Valuation17.1below the middleValued higher than the sector: Earnings yield 2.93%, sector 6.47%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Earnings yield2.93%6.47%Rank 11
FCF yield1.89%7.16%Rank 18
EV/saleslower is better7.812.82Rank 20
EV/EBITlower is better26.8414.24Rank 19
Momentum62.1above the middleShare price doing better than the sector: Distance from 52-week high −3.72%, sector −10.68%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Share price, 1 year0.63%7.80%Rank 39
Share price, 6 months9.15%8.71%Rank 52
Share price, 3 months8.87%0.45%Rank 77
Distance from 52-week high−3.72%−10.68%Rank 80
Quality50.2around the middleQuality about like the sector.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Accruals (Sloan)lower is better3.92%1.23%Rank 24
Change in share countlower is better6.13%−0.60%Rank 9
Dividend streak in years225Rank 94
Price reaction to results, market-adjusted1.63%0.00%Rank 74
Balance sheet & risk64.9above the middleLess risk than the sector: Equity ratio 32.88%, sector 9.21%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Equity ratio32.88%9.21%Rank 83
Net debt/EBITDAlower is better0.090.12Rank 51
Debt to equitylower is better0.270.90Rank 81
Volatility, 1 yearlower is better27.56%25.95%Rank 44

Ten years in figures

Revenue from $12.3B (2016) to $24.2B (2025), 7.9% a year.

Fiscal years, amounts in USD
YearRevenue, $BEBIT marginFCF, $BSharesNet debt
201612.337.3%2.0167M−$1.3B
201713.638.6%3.7165M−$2.0B
201814.238.4%2.9163M−$1.4B
201914.538.2%2.6157M$126.0M
202016.235.1%3.5155M−$1.4B
202119.438.5%4.6154M−$5.0M
202217.935.7%4.4152M$1.1B
202317.935.1%3.8151M$966.0M
202420.437.1%4.7152M$1.5B
202524.229.1%3.6161M$3.5B
1.8 / 10Not ratedStockScorer score2 of 11 points

1 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built

BlackRock Inc mainly meets criteria in the Growth category. Result from 18 strategies checked.

This stock · Profitability: 0%This stock · Growth: 50%This stock · Valuation: 0%This stock · Momentum: 0%Median of all stocks · Profitability: 33%Median of all stocks · Growth: 0%Median of all stocks · Valuation: 0%Median of all stocks · Momentum: 0%50%100%ProfitabilityGrowthValuationMomentumThis stockMedian of all stocks

How BlackRock Inc's score is built

This is how the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set, calculates the points for BlackRock Inc. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.

1 of 7 rules met

2 of 11 points

The rule “Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks” applies. The stock is therefore not rated regardless of the points scored.

  1. Free cash flow yield above the sector mediannot met0 of 2 points
  2. Return on capital (Greenblatt ROC) above the sector mediannot met0 of 2 points
  3. Return on equity above the sector mediannot met0 of 1 point
  4. Free cash flow margin above the sector mediannot met0 of 2 points
  5. Revenue growth above 15%met2 of 2 points
  6. 3-year earnings growth above 12% p.a.not met0 of 1 point
  7. 12-month share price more than 20 percentage points ahead of the marketnot met0 of 1 point
  8. Exclusion: financial and real estate stocksapplies

Detail data

How does BlackRock Inc stock perform across 18 strategies?

Excerpt from 18 strategies checked. The full evaluation is visible after a free sign-up.

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  • Undervalued Stocks: Multi-Factor Check
  • High-Growth / Rule of 40
  • Altman Z-Score: Stress Test
  • Levermann Strategy (13 Criteria)
  • Magic Formula: Value + Quality
  • Acquirer's Multiple: EV/EBIT Deep Value
  • Earnings Quality: Accrual Check (Sloan)
  • Balanced GARP
  • PEG Strategy (inspired by Peter Lynch)
  • Trending Value: Value + Momentum

BlackRock Inc key metrics: P/E, P/B and equity ratio

Selected fundamental metrics for BlackRock Inc.

MetricStockSector
P/E ratio34.215.2
P/B ratio3.41.8
Return on equity (ROE)9.9%12.5%
Equity ratio32.9%9.2%
Debt-to-equity (D/E)0.270.90
Dividend yield1.9%3.3%

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Frequently asked questions about BlackRock Inc stock

How does BlackRock Inc stock (BLK) score in the StockScorer model?
BlackRock Inc stock reaches a StockScorer score of 1.8 out of 10, but is not rated (exclusion rule: Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks).
What is BlackRock Inc's P/E ratio?
BlackRock Inc's P/E ratio is 34.2. The Financial Services sector median is 15.2.
What sector is BlackRock Inc in?
BlackRock Inc is assigned to the Financial Services sector. Its rank within the sector is 45.4 out of 100: 100 means the stock leads its peer group of large and mid-cap sector stocks in every measured area.

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