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Blackstone (BX) Economic Moat Analysis—

Competitive advantages, dated evidence and erosion risks.

Analysis needs refresh

Narrow economic moat

Blackstone has a narrow switching-cost advantage: multi-year commitments, restricted redemptions and protected insurance mandates impede migration of existing capital. Positive fee-earning net flows support continuing demand, but do not establish loyalty for future allocations. Contractual fee formulas constrain repricing, and realized pricing power remains unproven. Rising distribution costs, removal rights and readily terminable mandates limit protection. Scale and reputation may help fundraising, but the supplied passages do not demonstrate a separate durable advantage from either.

Switching costs

Multi-year carry-fund commitments, restricted perpetual-vehicle redemptions and conditional insurance-mandate termination protect existing capital and associated fee relationships from immediate migration.

Durability
Protection lasts through contractual commitment periods and termination conditions. Insurance mandates include cure rights. Remaining contract durations and the proportion of fees protected are undisclosed, limiting confidence in company-wide persistence.
Competitors
Comparison not established
Erosion risks
Investors can remove some general partners without cause, invoke key-person provisions or terminate certain non-insurance SMAs on 15–95 days’ notice. Existing capital restrictions do not secure subsequent allocations. Higher distribution costs can weaken economics despite retained capital.
What would invalidate the thesis
The thesis would weaken materially if protected mandates gained unrestricted termination rights, material general-partner removals or key-person terminations occurred, or sustained fee-earning outflows and fee concessions showed that contractual protection no longer preserved economically valuable relationships.
Evidence (6) · Counterevidence (5)

Changes since the previous analysis

  • Retain the narrow verdict and contractual switching-cost thesis after re-examining the supplied catalog.
  • Realized pricing remains ungraded: aggregate fee growth does not isolate changes in prices, fee bases or product mix.
  • Customer dependency is supported here by current contractual restrictions; the older capital-call compliance history is unnecessary to establish the assessment.
  • Capital efficiency is assessed using matching consolidated net income and consolidated equity scope, rather than relying on an attributable-income figure whose heading is absent from the supplied excerpt.
  • No credit is assigned for the announced December 31, 2026 board departure or for preliminary third-quarter realization estimates.

Evidence limitations

  • The catalog identifies generic competitor categories but no named competing asset manager. Relative fees, contractual protections, investment performance and fundraising efficiency against specific peers are unestablished.
  • Evidence consists of issuer disclosures. Contractual terms and reported outcomes support bounded assessments; management claims about scale, reputation and future performance do not establish exceptional durability.
  • Protected-fee coverage, remaining commitment durations, voluntary renewal rates, repeat-investor rates and comparable fee schedules are missing. Flow measures include adjustments beyond customer subscriptions and withdrawals.
  • Financial assessments use filings dated 2026-02-27, 2026-07-23 and 2026-08-07, all within 550 days of 2026-10-21. These dates retain dateKind filed; no retrieval date is treated as publication.
  • Corporate cash is separated from Blackstone Fund cash and AUM. Operating-partnership investment balances are not assumed freely liquid; consolidated equity is not eligible regulatory capital.
  • Numerical regulatory minima, current regulatory ratios, covenant headroom and complete commitment timing are absent. Financial grades are qualitative asset-manager assessments, not bank capital or industrial cash-flow scores.
  • Several catalog passages split table headings, values or sentences. Selected companion IDs preserve relevant scope and units; no excerpt is rewritten or joined.

Financial indicators to test against the thesis

Calculated from annual filings. Missing data remains unavailable. Detailed financial charts remain in the other topics.

Financial indicators to test against the thesis
PeriodGross marginOperating marginROICFCF margin
2021———17.4%
2022———71.6%
2023———47.8%
2024———25.9%
2025———31.5%

Pricing power—

Insufficient verified evidence to assign a score.

Management—

Insufficient verified evidence to assign a score.

Sources and methodology

Analysis needs refresh · Updated 21/10/2026 · Version 20

AI interpretation based on checked source excerpts. Issuer assertions and evidence limitations remain explicit.

Policy quality-scores-3: six equally weighted categories. The overall score requires full coverage. Missing inputs are not zero. Qualitative grades are sourced interpretations, not probabilities. 1/6 · 06/11/2026

Moat—

Awaiting a sourced assessment under the current scoring policy and financial basis.

Pricing power—

Awaiting a sourced assessment under the current scoring policy and financial basis.

Predictability63

Financial-sector stability over 5 consecutive reported annual periods: equal weights for nondeclining revenue frequency, revenue-growth volatility (5–40pp), positive consolidated earnings frequency, and net-income/revenue margin volatility (3–20pp). Uses reported accounting scope; not industrial FCF or a growth forecast.

Nondeclining revenue years (%)
50.00
Revenue growth volatility (pp)
45.28
positiveEarningsShare
100.00
netMarginStdDev
2.76
observedAnnualPeriods
5.00

Financial strength—

Awaiting a current evidence-backed financial_services assessment under financial-services-1; industrial FCF metrics are not applied.

Capital allocation—

Awaiting a current evidence-backed financial_services assessment under financial-services-1; industrial FCF metrics are not applied.

Management—

Awaiting a sourced assessment under the current scoring policy and financial basis.

Evidence

“Our carry funds” refers to funds managed by Blackstone that have commitment-based multi-year drawdown structures that pay carry on the realization of an investment.

2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-27; carry-fund definition · Filed 27/02/2026

Third-party investors in some of our partnership funds have the right to remove the general partner of the fund or to accelerate the termination of the fund without cause by a majority or supermajority vote.

2025 Form 10-K; partnership-fund removal rights · Filed 27/02/2026

In addition, the governing agreements of many of our partnership funds provide that in the event certain “key persons” in our partnership funds do not meet specified time commitments with regard to managing the fund, then (a) investors in such funds have the 12 Table of Contents right to vote to terminate the investment period by a specified percentage (including, in certain cases a simple majority) vote in accordance with specified procedures, or accelerate the withdrawal of their capital on an investor-by-investor basis, or (b) the fund’s investment period will automatically terminate and a specified percentage (including, in certain cases a simple majority) in accordance with specified procedures is required to restart it.

2025 Form 10-K; key-person termination provisions · Filed 27/02/2026

In addition, competition for fundraising in the private wealth and insurance channels is also driven by the willingness of certain of our competitors to charge lower fees or pay higher or different types of distributors fees.

2025 Form 10-K; private wealth and insurance fundraising competition · Filed 27/02/2026

While the extent of this shift going forward is uncertain, the costs associated with the distribution of certain of our private wealth perpetual products have increased and there may be further increases in distribution costs for these and future products.

2025 Form 10-K; realized increase in product distribution costs · Filed 27/02/2026

In our perpetual capital strategies, BCRED maintained healthy demand with over $14 billion raised in 2025.

2025 Form 10-K; BCRED fundraising during 2025 · Filed 27/02/2026

In our perpetual capital vehicles where redemption rights exist, redemption requests are required to be fulfilled only (a) in Blackstone’s or the vehicles’ board’s discretion, as applicable, (b) to the extent there is sufficient new capital, or (c) where such required redemptions are limited in quantum, such as interval funds or in certain insurance-dedicated vehicles.

June 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-08-07; perpetual-vehicle redemption conditions · Filed 07/08/2026

Investment advisory agreements related to certain SMAs in our Credit & Insurance and Multi-Asset Investing segments, excluding SMAs in our insurance platform, may generally be terminated by an investor on 15 to 95 days’ notice.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; termination notice for certain non-insurance SMAs · Filed 07/08/2026

SMAs in our insurance platform can generally only be terminated for long-term underperformance, cause and certain other limited circumstances, in each case subject to Blackstone’s right to cure.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; insurance-platform SMA termination protections · Filed 07/08/2026

Blackstone earns base management fees from its customers at a fixed percentage of a calculation base which is typically net asset value, gross asset value, total fair value of investments, committed capital, total invested capital or remaining invested capital.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; base management fee calculation · Filed 07/08/2026

Investment advisory agreements may require that the investment adviser reduce the amount of management fees payable by the investors to Blackstone (“management fee reductions”) by an amount equal to a portion of the transaction and other fees paid to Blackstone.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; contractual management fee reductions · Filed 07/08/2026

Incentive Fees are earned based on performance of the vehicle during the period, subject to the achievement of minimum return levels, or high water marks, in accordance with the respective terms set out in each vehicle’s governing agreements.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; incentive-fee hurdles and high-water marks · Filed 07/08/2026

The amount recorded as revenue is generally determined at the end of the period because these management fees are payable on a regular basis (typically quarterly) and are not subject to clawback once paid.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; management-fee payment and clawback treatment · Filed 07/08/2026

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2026, Realized Performance Compensation increased by $39.9 million and $68.2 million, respectively, and Fee Related Compensation decreased by $17.5 million and $35.0 million, respectively, which reduced Net Realizations, increased Fee Related Earnings and had a negative impact to Income Before Provision (Benefits) for Taxes and Distributable Earnings in the three and six months ended June 30, 2026.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; compensation allocation effects on six-month and quarterly earnings · Filed 07/08/2026

2Q’25 YTD Management and Advisory Fees, Net $ 2,020,012 $ 2,250,296 11% $ 3,912,010 $ 4,383,104 12% Fee Related Performance Revenues 472,050 793,391 68% 765,965 1,281,489 67% Fee Related Compensation (700,316 ) (880,129 ) 26% (1,317,298 ) (1,609,599 ) 22% Other Operating Expenses (332,243 ) (380,130 ) 14% (639,118 ) (723,585 ) 13% Fee Related Earnings $ 1,459,503 $ 1,783,428 22% $ 2,721,559 $ 3,331,409 22% Realized Performance Revenues 553,121 730,885 32% 1,013,144 1,511,379 49% Realized Performance Compensation (256,624 ) (344,124 ) 34% (477,548 ) (708,180 ) 48% Realized Principal Investment Income 29,421 27,499 (7)% 147,331 59,472 (60)% Net Realizations 325,918 414,260 27%

Second-quarter 2026 results, filed 2026-07-23; segment earnings, quarterly and YTD comparison; dollars in thousands in preceding table heading · Filed 23/07/2026

Blackstone | 36 DEFINITIONS AND DIVIDEND POLICY – (CONT’D) – Fee Related Compensation is presented on a segment basis and refers to the compensation expense, excluding Equity-Based Compensation, directly related to (a) Management and Advisory Fees, Net and

Second-quarter 2026 results; Fee Related Compensation definition and equity-compensation exclusion · Filed 23/07/2026

($ in thousands, except per share data) (unaudited) 2Q’25 2Q’26 2Q’25 YTD 2Q’26 YTD 2Q’25 LTM 2Q’26 LTM Revenues Management and Advisory Fees, Net $ 2,035,495 $ 2,266,006 $ 3,939,812 $ 4,414,626 $ 7,614,287 $ 8,550,415 Incentive Fees 195,414 159,080 387,239 324,499 983,777 915,462 Performance Allocations 1,143,103 1,952,315 1,968,354 3,338,940 4,045,177 5,675,892 Principal Investments 462,562 520,406 806,817 278,424 937,177 417,543 Interest and Dividend Revenue 100,389 134,224 197,809 242,164 406,130 460,448 Other (225,063 ) 11,947 (298,673 ) 62,920 (239,431 ) 90,720 Total Revenues $ 3,711,900 $ 5,043,978 $ 7,001,358 $ 8,661,573 $ 13,747,117 $ 16,110,480 Expenses Compensation and Benefits 1,421,530 1,814,135 2,853,370 3,558,550 5,332,917 6,325,709 General, Administrative and Other 360,817 409,110 693,190 781,931 1,373,221 1,613,289 Interest Expense 135,822 145,023 253,937 282,076 480,806 536,453 Fund Expenses 14,434 7,344 26,538 15,348 36,304 38,026 Total Expenses $ 1,932,603 $ 2,375,612 $ 3,827,035 $ 4,637,905 $ 7,223,248 $ 8,513,477 Other Income $ 136,330 $ 140,086 $ 193,905 $ 239,841 $ 215,576 $ 469,924 Income Before Provision for Taxes $ 1,915,627 $ 2,808,452 $ 3,368,228 $ 4,263,509 $ 6,739,445 $ 8,066,927 Provision for Taxes 289,494 452,386 533,321 649,536 1,011,075

Second-quarter 2026 results; GAAP consolidated operations, dollars in thousands, quarterly, YTD and LTM comparisons · Filed 23/07/2026

1,346,264 % Change (0)% 6% 3% 7% 3% (3)% 17% 15% 21% 11% Fee-Earning AUM Rollforward ($ in millions) Three Months Ended June 30, 2026 Twelve Months Ended June 30, 2026 Real Estate Private Equity Credit & Insurance Multi-Asset Investing Total Real Estate Private Equity Credit & Insurance Multi-Asset Investing Total Beginning Balance $ 277,503 $ 255,841 $ 313,255 $ 90,998 $ 937,596 $ 285,827 $ 232,160 $ 288,931 $ 80,196 $ 887,114 Inflows 6,090 15,363 17,225 4,613 43,291 21,183 51,975 79,237 15,987 168,382 Outflows (1,106 ) (4,117 ) (5,256 ) (2,122 ) (12,601 ) (6,083 ) (14,934 ) (19,381 ) (7,612 ) (48,010 ) Net Flows 4,985 11,246 11,969 2,490 30,690 15,101 37,041 59,856 8,375 120,372 Realizations (4,474 ) (4,559 ) (8,037 ) (677 ) (17,747 ) (24,003 ) (19,222 ) (36,114 ) (3,178 ) (82,518 ) Market Activity (593 ) 5,289 1,054 5,303 11,053 496 17,839 5,568 12,721 36,624 Ending Balance $ 277,420 $ 267,818 $ 318,241 $ 98,114 $ 961,593 $ 277,420 $ 267,818 $ 318,241 $ 98,114 $ 961,593 % Change (0)% 5% 2% 8% 3% (3)% 15% 10% 22% 8% Inflows include contributions, capital raised, other increases in available capital (recallable capital and increased side-by-side commitments),

Second-quarter 2026 results; fee-earning AUM rollforward for three and twelve months ended June 30, 2026, dollars in millions; inflow definition begins · Filed 23/07/2026

purchases, inter-segment allocations and acquisitions.

Second-quarter 2026 results; continuation of inflow definition · Filed 23/07/2026

Outflows represent redemptions, client withdrawals and decreases in available capital (expired capital, expense drawdowns and decreased side-by-side commitments).

Second-quarter 2026 results; outflow definition · Filed 23/07/2026

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) (Dollars in Thousands) $ $ Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 2025 Operating Activities Net Income $ 3,613,973 $ 2,834,907 Adjustments to Reconcile Net Income to Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities Net Realized Gains on Investments (2,937,722 ) (1,905,804 ) Changes in Unrealized Gains on Investments (207,451 ) (632,886 ) Non-Cash Performance Allocations (870,592 ) (576,484 ) Non-Cash Performance Allocations and Incentive Fee Compensation 1,428,628 953,235 Equity-Based Compensation Expense 915,468 783,445 Amortization of Intangibles 18,072 17,949 Other Non-Cash Amounts Included in Net Income (263,024 ) 136,035 Cash Flows Due to Changes in Operating Assets and Liabilities Cash Acquired with Consolidation of Fund Entities 830 — Cash Relinquished with Deconsolidation of Fund Entities (12,946 ) (65,803 ) Accounts Receivable (402,662 ) (117,317 ) Due from Affiliates 476,083 241,640 Other Assets 194,767 118,683 Accrued Compensation and Benefits (953,907 ) (705,817 ) Accounts Payable, Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities 166,094 (23,200 ) Due to Affiliates 10,999 (150,153 ) Investments Purchased (1,417,701 ) (2,351,387 ) Cash Proceeds from Sale of Investments 3,173,541 3,440,678 Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities 2,932,450 1,997,721 Investing Activities Purchase of Furniture, Equipment and Leasehold Improvements (65,372 ) (69,424 ) Net Cash Used in Investing Activities (65,372 ) (69,424 ) Financing Activities Distributions to Non-Controlling Interest Holders in Consolidated Entities (839,320 ) (481,852 ) Contributions from Non-Controlling Interest Holders in Consolidated Entities 733,252 1,845,102 Payments Under Tax Receivable Agreement (63,820 ) (43,954 ) Net Settlement of Vested Common Stock and Repurchase of Common Stock (108,558 ) (135,363 ) Proceeds from Loans Payable 1,637,859 1,024,556 continued… See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; consolidated cash flows for six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025, dollars in thousands · Filed 07/08/2026

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) (Dollars in Thousands) $ $ Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 2025 Financing Activities (Continued) Repayment and Repurchase of Loans Payable $ (851,318 ) $ (706,362 ) Dividends/Distributions to Stockholders and Unitholders (3,446,832 ) (3,074,008 ) Net Cash Used in Financing Activities (2,938,737 ) (1,571,881 ) Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Cash and Cash Equivalents and Cash Held by Blackstone Funds and Other (9,720 ) 16,841 Cash and Cash Equivalents and Cash Held by Blackstone Funds and Other Net Increase (Decrease) (81,379 ) 373,257 Beginning of Period 2,854,682 2,176,192 End of Period $ 2,773,303 $ 2,549,449 Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flows Information Payments for Interest $ 261,314 $ 248,437 Payments for Income Taxes $ 141,294 $ 296,994 Supplemental Disclosure of Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities Non-Cash Contributions from Non-Controlling Interest Holders $ 8,994 $ 8,299 Non-Cash Distributions to Non-Controlling Interest Holders $ (9,241 ) $ (9,551 ) Transfer of Interests to Non-Controlling Interest Holders $ (42,613 ) $ 1,626 Net Settlement of Vested Common Stock $ 601,407 $ 580,665 Deferred Tax Asset Increase from Equity Transactions $ 77,800 $ 255,309 Due to Affiliates Increase Related to the Impact of Conversions on Tax Receivable Agreements $ 56,796 $ 199,908 The following table provides a reconciliation of Cash and Cash Equivalents and Cash Held by Blackstone Funds and Other reported within the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition: $ $ June 30, 2026 December 31, 2025 Cash and Cash Equivalents $ 2,507,073 $ 2,631,241 Cash Held by Blackstone Funds and Other 266,230 223,441 $ 2,773,303 $ 2,854,682 See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; consolidated cash-flow continuation, distributions, debt repayments and cash reconciliation, dollars in thousands · Filed 07/08/2026

Most of our current senior managing directors and other senior personnel have equity interests in our business that entitle such personnel to cash distributions.

2025 Form 10-K; actual senior-personnel equity interests · Filed 27/02/2026

Baratta was granted 51,216 shares of deferred restricted common stock with a grant date fair value of $8,019,401, reflecting 100% of his annual bonus payment mandatorily deferred into deferred restricted common stock pursuant to the Bonus Deferral Plan.

2025 Form 10-K; executed Baratta annual-bonus stock deferral · Filed 27/02/2026

The ultimate bonus payments that are made are fully discretionary as further discussed below under “—Determination of Incentive Compensation.”

2025 Form 10-K; discretion over ultimate bonus payments · Filed 27/02/2026

Additionally, for some of the general partner commitments shown in the table above, we require our senior managing directors and certain other professionals to fund a portion of the commitment even though the ultimate obligation to fund the aggregate commitment is ours pursuant to the governing agreements of the respective funds.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; professional funding obligations and Blackstone’s ultimate GP commitment responsibility · Filed 07/08/2026

Because the publicly traded entity and/or its wholly owned subsidiaries must pay taxes and make payments under the tax receivable agreements, the amounts ultimately paid as dividends by Blackstone to common stockholders in respect of each fiscal year are generally expected to be less, on a per share or per unit basis, than the amounts distributed by the Blackstone Holdings Partnerships to the Blackstone personnel and others who are limited partners of the Blackstone Holdings Partnerships in respect of their Blackstone Holdings Partnership Units.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; common-stockholder versus partnership-unit distribution economics · Filed 07/08/2026

To further corroborate results, each business unit also generally obtains either a positive assurance opinion or a range of value from an independent valuation party, at least annually for internally prepared valuations for investments that have been held by Blackstone Funds and investment vehicles for greater than a year and quarterly for certain investments.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; independent corroboration of internally prepared valuations · Filed 07/08/2026

Each quarter, the valuation process is also reviewed by the audit committee of our board of directors, which is comprised of our non-employee directors.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; quarterly audit-committee valuation review · Filed 07/08/2026

The significant voting power of holders of our Series I preferred stock and Series II preferred stock may limit the ability of holders of our common stock to influence our business.

2025 Form 10-K; preferred-stock voting power and common-holder influence · Filed 27/02/2026

Regulated Entities Certain U.S. and non-U.S.

2025 Form 10-K; regulated-entity scope introduction · Filed 27/02/2026

entities are subject to various investment adviser and other financial regulatory rules and requirements that may include minimum net capital requirements.

2025 Form 10-K; applicable financial regulatory and minimum net-capital requirements · Filed 27/02/2026

These entities have continuously operated in excess of these requirements.

2025 Form 10-K; reported continuous operation above applicable requirements · Filed 27/02/2026

These regulatory capital requirements may restrict Blackstone’s ability to withdraw capital from its entities.

2025 Form 10-K; restrictions on withdrawing regulated-entity capital · Filed 27/02/2026

At December 31 , 2025 , $ 116.2 million of net assets of consolidated entities may be restricted as to the payment of cash dividends and advances to Blackstone.

2025 Form 10-K; December 31, 2025 restricted net assets, dollars in millions · Filed 27/02/2026

(Dollars in Thousands, Except Share Data) $ $ June 30, 2026 December 31, 2025 Assets Cash and Cash Equivalents $ 2,507,073 $ 2,631,241 Cash Held by Blackstone Funds and Other 266,230 223,441 Investments 34,587,729 32,212,111 Accounts Receivable 692,055 291,758 Due from Affiliates 6,218,066 6,357,462 Intangible Assets, Net 113,288 131,359 Goodwill 1,890,202 1,890,202 Other Assets 996,506 1,157,719 Right-of-Use Assets 743,127 757,459 Deferred Tax Assets 1,877,944 2,056,223 Total Assets $ 49,892,220 $ 47,708,975

June 2026 Form 10-Q; consolidated financial-condition table heading, dates and dollar units · Filed 07/08/2026

Common Stock, $0.00001 par value, 90 billion shares authorized, (752,601,287 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2026; 748,688,068 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2025) 7 7 Series I Preferred Stock, $0.00001 par value, 999,999,000 shares authorized, 1 share issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025) — — Series II Preferred Stock, $0.00001 par value, 1,000 shares authorized, 1 share issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025) — — Additional Paid-in-Capital 9,051,771 8,479,886 Retained Earnings (Deficit) (18,646 ) 191,641 Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss (18,589 ) (6,008 ) Total Stockholders’ Equity of Blackstone Inc.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; consolidated financial-condition continuation, issued shares and issuer-equity heading · Filed 07/08/2026

9,014,543 8,665,526 Non-Controlling Interests in Consolidated Entities 7,104,291 7,224,211 Non-Controlling Interests in Blackstone Holdings 4,943,311 4,610,932 Total Equity 21,062,145 20,500,669 Total Liabilities and Equity $ 49,892,220 $ 47,708,975

June 2026 Form 10-Q; issuer stockholders’ equity and consolidated total equity, June 30, 2026 versus December 31, 2025 · Filed 07/08/2026

$ $ $ $ June 30, 2026 Consolidated Operating Partnerships Consolidated Blackstone Funds (a) Reclasses and Eliminations Consolidated Assets Cash and Cash Equivalents $ 2,507,073 $ — $ — $ 2,507,073 Cash Held by Blackstone Funds and Other — 266,230 — 266,230 Investments 30,308,780 5,233,815 (954,866 ) 34,587,729 Accounts Receivable 689,778 2,277 — 692,055 Due from Affiliates 5,948,781 336,435 (67,150 ) 6,218,066 Intangible Assets, Net 113,288 — — 113,288 Goodwill 1,890,202 — — 1,890,202 Other Assets 992,140 4,366 — 996,506 Right-of-Use Assets 743,127 — — 743,127 Deferred Tax Assets 1,877,944 — — 1,877,944 Total Assets $ 45,071,113 $ 5,843,123 $ (1,022,016 ) $ 49,892,220 Liabilities and Equity Loans Payable $ 13,070,834 $ 123,896 $ — $ 13,194,730 Due to Affiliates 3,339,203 214,676 (69,523 ) 3,484,356 Accrued Compensation and Benefits 6,844,156 — — 6,844,156 Operating Lease Liabilities 832,586 — — 832,586 Accounts Payable, Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities 3,036,983 66,181 — 3,103,164 Total Liabilities 27,123,762 404,753 (69,523 ) 27,458,992 Redeemable Non-Controlling Interests in Consolidated Entities 7 1,371,076 — 1,371,083 Equity Common Stock 7 — — 7 Series I Preferred Stock — — — — Series II Preferred Stock — — — — Additional Paid-in-Capital 9,051,771 926,548 (926,548 ) 9,051,771 Retained Earnings (Deficit) (18,646 ) 25,945 (25,945 ) (18,646 ) Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) (51,511 ) 32,922 — (18,589 ) Non-Controlling Interests in Consolidated Entities 4,022,412 3,081,879 — 7,104,291 Non-Controlling Interests in Blackstone Holdings 4,943,311 — — 4,943,311

June 2026 Form 10-Q; supplemental June 30, 2026 balance sheet separating operating partnerships, Blackstone Funds and eliminations · Filed 07/08/2026

Senior Managing Directors and Certain Other Professionals (b) Fund Original Commitment Remaining Commitment Original Commitment Remaining Commitment (Dollars in Thousands) Multi-Asset Investing Strategic Alliance III $ 22,000 $ 24,263 $ — $ — Strategic Alliance IV 15,000 9,287 — — Dislocation 20,000 12,156 — — Other (c) 4,746 1,847 — — Total Multi-Asset Investing 61,746 47,553 — — Other Treasury (d) 1,889,212 1,597,241 — — $ 13,592,897 $ 5,904,553 $ 5,229,121 $ 2,279,326 (a) We expect our commitments to be drawn down over time and to be funded by available cash and cash generated from operations and realizations.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; commitment-table totals and funding footnote, dollars in thousands · Filed 07/08/2026

(d) Represents loan origination commitments, revolver commitments and capital market commitments.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; Treasury commitment definition · Filed 07/08/2026

L.L.C. (each an “Issuer” and together the “Issuers”), both indirect subsidiaries of Blackstone, had issued and outstanding the following senior notes (collectively the “Notes”): $ Senior Notes (a) Aggregate Principal Amount (Dollars/Euros in Thousands) 1.000%, Due 10/5/2026 € 600,000 3.150%, Due 10/2/2027 $ 300,000 5.900%, Due 11/3/2027 $ 600,000 1.625%, Due 8/5/2028 $ 650,000 1.500%, Due 4/10/2029 € 600,000 2.500%, Due 1/10/2030 $ 500,000 4.300%, Due 11/3/2030 (b) $ 600,000 1.600%, Due 3/30/2031 $ 500,000 2.000%, Due 1/30/2032 $ 800,000 2.550%, Due 3/30/2032 $ 500,000 6.200%, Due 4/22/2033 $ 900,000 3.500%, Due 6/1/2034 € 500,000 5.000%, Due 12/6/2034 (b) $ 750,000 4.950%, Due 2/15/2036 (b) $ 600,000 6.250%, Due 8/15/2042 $ 250,000 5.000%, Due 6/15/2044 $ 500,000 4.450%, Due 7/15/2045 $ 350,000 4.000%, Due 10/2/2047 $ 300,000 3.500%, Due 9/10/2049 $ 400,000 2.800%, Due 9/30/2050 $ 400,000 2.850%, Due 8/5/2051 $ 550,000 3.200%, Due 1/30/2052 $ 1,000,000 $ 12,391,740 (a) The Notes are unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Issuers, as applicable, and are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, by Blackstone Inc.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; senior-note principal, currencies, coupons, maturities and guarantee footnote · Filed 07/08/2026

and each of the Blackstone Holdings Partnerships (the “Guarantors”).

June 2026 Form 10-Q; continuation identifying senior-note guarantors · Filed 07/08/2026

L.L.C., has a $4.325 billion unsecured Revolving Credit Facility with Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent with a maturity date of October 16, 2030.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; revolving facility size and October 16, 2030 maturity · Filed 07/08/2026

As of June 30, 2026, Blackstone had $800.0 million of outstanding borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; June 30, 2026 revolving borrowings · Filed 07/08/2026

Financial covenants consist of a maximum net leverage ratio and a requirement to keep a minimum amount of fee-earning assets under management, each tested quarterly.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; quarterly leverage and fee-earning AUM covenants · Filed 07/08/2026

For some investments little market activity may exist; management’s determination of fair value is then based on the best information available in the circumstances, and may incorporate management’s own assumptions and involves a significant degree of judgment, taking into consideration a combination of internal and external factors, including the appropriate risk adjustments for non-performance and liquidity risks.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; valuation judgment, non-performance and liquidity risks · Filed 07/08/2026

The Blackstone Holdings Partnerships provided guarantees to a lending institution for certain loans held by employees either for investment in Blackstone Funds or for members’ capital contributions to Blackstone Europe LLP.

2025 Form 10-K; operating-partnership employee-loan guarantees · Filed 27/02/2026

The amount guaranteed as of December 31 , 2025 was $ 82.0 million.

2025 Form 10-K; December 31, 2025 employee-loan guarantee amount · Filed 27/02/2026

(All Dollars are in Thousands, Except Share and Per Share Data, Except Where Noted) For each such arrangement, an asset or liability is recognized b ase d on fair value with the maximum potential future obligation in respect of the target return capped at the fair value of the assets pledged by Blackstone in connection with the respective arrangement.

2025 Form 10-K; strategic-venture fair-value accounting and pledged-asset obligation cap · Filed 27/02/2026

As of December 31, 2025, across both arrangements, the fair value of the total assets pledged was $1.5 billion and the total liability recognized was $1.1 billion.

2025 Form 10-K; December 31, 2025 strategic-venture pledged assets and recognized liability · Filed 27/02/2026

We draw primarily on the long-term committed or invested capital of investors in our investment vehicles to fund the investment requirements of the Blackstone Funds and use our own realizations and cash flows to invest in growth initiatives, make commitments to our own funds, where our minimum general partner commitments are generally less than 5% of the limited partner commitments of a fund, and pay dividends to stockholders and distributions to holders of Holdings Units.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; client-funded investments, corporate cash uses and minimum GP commitments · Filed 07/08/2026

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2026, Blackstone repurchased 0.2 million and 0.4 million shares of common stock, pursuant to its repurchase program, at a total cost of $24.0 million and $48.4 million, respectively.

June 2026 Form 10-Q; actual quarterly and six-month common-share repurchases · Filed 07/08/2026

§ Retained capital is withheld pro rata from common shareholders and Blackstone Holdings Partnership unitholders.

Second-quarter 2026 results; pro-rata retained-capital treatment · Filed 23/07/2026

Common shareholders’ share was $184 million for 2Q’26 and $341 million for 2Q’26 YTD.

Second-quarter 2026 results; actual common-shareholder retained capital for quarter and YTD · Filed 23/07/2026

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