Blackstone 2Q Distributable Earnings Up as Inflows Lead to Higher Total Assets Under Management

By Freddy Sebastian

Blackstone's second-quarter distributable earnings climbed as inflows led to higher total assets under management.

The asset manager on Thursday posted net income of $2.36 billion, or $1.54 a share, up from $1.63 billion, or 98 cents a share, a year earlier. Distributable earnings, a closely tracked metric for publicly traded investment firms who pay dividends, rose to $1.98 billion, or $1.52 a share, from $1.57 billion, or $1.21 a share, in the year-earlier period.

Fee-related earnings, another metric watched by analysts, increased 22% to $1.78 billion, or $1.43 a share, from $1.46 billion, or $1.19 a share, a year earlier.

Total revenue rose to $5.04 billion from $3.71 billion.

Total assets under management increased 11% year-over-year to $1.35 trillion. The firm brought in $68.3 billion of inflows during the quarter, with $262.51 billion over the last 12 months.

"Our decision to lean into the artificial intelligence megatrend is leading to standout investment performance across numerous strategies and creating extraordinary opportunities for growth," said Blackstone Chief Executive and Chairman Stephen Schwarzman.

In May, The Wall Street Journal reported Blackstone and Google said they planned to create an artificial-intelligence cloud company to rival the likes of CoreWeave using Google's specialized chips. The companies said they planned to launch the company with $5 billion in equity from Blackstone.

Blackstone would be the majority owner in the company, the Journal reported, and was expected to support around $25 billion in compute investments including leverage.

Blackstone is one of Wall Street's most-active investors in AI and counts itself as the world's largest provider of data centers. In 2021, it struck a deal to buy data-center operator QTS Realty Trust and in 2024 it agreed to buy data-center operator AirTrunk.

The firm also has made significant investments in CoreWeave, Anthropic and OpenAI, among other AI-related companies.

In April, Blackstone, which has poured tens of billions of dollars into data-center development, associated power plants and other AI infrastructure, announced it was forming a new unit to integrate some of its investments in AI technologies.

On Thursday, the New York-based asset manager said total dry powder, which is unspent capital available for future investments, stood at $228.1 billion in the second quarter, with $91.7 billion for private equity, $83.6 billion for credit and insurance, $48.5 billion for real estate and $4.3 billion for multi-asset investing.

Blackstone invested $34.2 billion during the quarter and committed another $17.1 billion that was not yet deployed.

As of June 30, Blackstone held $12.2 billion in total cash, cash equivalents, corporate treasury and other investments, along with $22.7 billion of total cash and net investments.

Write to Freddy Sebastian at freddy.sebastian@wsj.com

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July 23, 2026 07:11 ET (11:11 GMT)