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BX vs FUND
Side-by-side comparison of Blackstone Inc. (BX) and Sprott Focus Trust Inc. (FUND): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both BX and FUND operate in Investment Managers (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
- BX is the larger of the two at $89.36B, about 298.9x FUND ($299.0M).
- Over the past year, BX is down 16.5% and FUND is up 34.2% - FUND leads by 50.6 points.
- BX has been more active in the news (9 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for FUND).
- BX has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 0 for FUND).
Blackstone Inc.
The Blackstone Group Inc. is an alternative asset management firm specializing in real estate, private equity, hedge fund solutions, credit, secondary funds of funds, public debt and equity and multi-asset class strategies. The firm typically invests in early-stage companies. It also provide capital markets services. The real estate segment specializes in opportunistic, core+ investments as well as debt investment opportunities collateralized by commercial real estate, and stabilized income-oriented commercial real estate across North America, Europe and Asia. The firm's corporate private equity business pursues transactions throughout the world across a variety of transaction types, including large buyouts,special situations, distressed mortgage loans, mid-cap buyouts, buy and build platforms, which involves multiple acquisitions behind a single management team and platform, and growth equity/development projects involving significant majority stakes in portfolio companies and minority investments in operating companies, shipping, real estate, corporate or consumer loans, and alternative energy greenfield development projects in energy and power, property, dislocated markets, shipping opportunities, financial institution breakups, re-insurance, and improving freight mobility, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, enterprise tech and consumer, as well as consumer technologies. The fund considers investment in Asia and Latin America. It has a three year investment period. Its hedge fund business manages a broad range of commingled and customized fund solutions and its credit business focuses on loans, and securities of non-investment grade companies spread across the capital structure including senior debt, subordinated debt, preferred stock and common equity. The Blackstone Group Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices across Asia, Europe and North America.
Sprott Focus Trust Inc.
Sprott Focus Trust, Inc. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Sprott Asset Management, LP. The fund is co-managed by Sprott Asset Management USA Inc. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It primarily invests in value stocks of companies across all market capitalizations. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Russell 3000 Index. It was formerly known as Royce Focus Trust, Inc. Sprott Focus Trust, Inc. was formed on March 2, 1988 and is domiciled in the United States.
Latest BX
- Broadcom, Apollo, and Blackstone Establish Landmark Strategic Platform to Accelerate More Than 20 Gigawatts of Global AI Deployments
- Apollo Leads $35 Billion Capital Solution for Broadcom AI XPV Platform in Partnership with Blackstone and Leading Global Banks
- New insider Bcp Redbird Aggregator L.P. claimed ownership of 83,831,109 shares (SEC Form 3)
- Blackstone Raises its Largest Asia Private Equity Fund at $13.1 Billion
- Blackstone to Present at Morgan Stanley's US Financials Conference
- The AI-Native Enterprise Services Firm Backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman Announces Acquisition of Fractional AI
- Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust Announces Full Exercise and Closing of Underwriters Option to Purchase Additional Shares in Initial Public Offering
- Large owner Blackstone Treasury Holdings Iii L.L.C. bought $189,735,900 worth of shares (9,486,795 units at $20.00) (SEC Form 4)
- Blackstone Announces Joint Venture with Google to Create New TPU Cloud
- SEC Form 13F-HR filed by Blackstone Inc.
Latest FUND
- Sprott Focus Trust, Inc. (Nasdaq-FUND) Declares Second Quarter Common Stock Distribution of $0.1424 Per Share
- SEC Form 4 filed by George W Whitney
- SEC Form N-CEN filed by Sprott Focus Trust Inc.
- SEC Form N-CSR filed by Sprott Focus Trust Inc.
- Sprott Focus Trust, Inc. (Nasdaq-FUND) Declares First Quarter Common Stock Distribution of $0.1335 Per Share
- Senior Portfolio Manager George W Whitney bought $15,869 worth of shares (1,785 units at $8.89) and sold $156,645 worth of shares (17,700 units at $8.85), increasing direct ownership by 0.02% to 8,078,033 units (SEC Form 4)
- Senior Portfolio Manager George W Whitney gifted 17,440 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.13% to 8,076,248 units (SEC Form 4)
- Senior Portfolio Manager George W Whitney bought $2,324,038 worth of shares (270,237 units at $8.60), increasing direct ownership by 1% to 8,087,148 units (SEC Form 4)
- Senior Portfolio Manager George W Whitney gifted 4,500 shares (SEC Form 4)
- Sprott Focus Trust, Inc. (Nasdaq-FUND) Declares Fourth Quarter Common Stock Distribution of $0.1911 Per Share