BlackRock Company Statistics 2026: AUM, Revenue, Market Share and Key Facts

BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager. It ended 2025 with a record $14.042 trillion in assets under management, record full-year net inflows of $698 billion, and revenue of $24.2 billion, up 19% year-over-year. Its iShares platform holds 32% of the global ETF market. Its Aladdin technology processes risk analytics for $21 trillion. And its 2024 and 2025 acquisitions of GIP, HPS and Preqin mark the most ambitious strategic expansion in its 37-year history. This is the complete 2026 data guide to BlackRock's statistics.

BlackRock in 2026: The Largest Asset Manager in History

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) occupies a position in global finance unlike any other institution. It is not a bank, yet it influences more capital than any bank on earth. It is not a government, yet pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and central banks in over 100 countries rely on its technology, its advisory services and its investment products to manage their assets. At $14.042 trillion in assets under management at year-end 2025, BlackRock manages more money than the GDP of every country on Earth except the United States and China.

Founded in 1988 by Larry Fink and seven partners in a single room with zero assets, BlackRock has been built on two compounding advantages: scale in passive index investing and iShares ETFs, and a risk management technology platform (Aladdin) that has become the operating system of institutional investing globally. As Wikipedia's overview of BlackRock documents, the firm's acquisition of Barclays Global Investors (including iShares) in 2009 for $13.5 billion was the single most consequential transaction in modern asset management history. That $13.5 billion purchase now generates over $8 billion in annual revenue and commands 32% of the entire global ETF market.

The 2025 fiscal year was described by CEO Larry Fink as the strongest year in BlackRock's history. Record net inflows of $698 billion, record AUM of $14 trillion, revenue growth of 19%, and the full-year integration of three transformational acquisitions (GIP, HPS and Preqin) that together repositioned BlackRock as the world's dominant alternative investment and infrastructure platform alongside its existing passive and active asset management businesses. In BlackRock's official Q4 2025 earnings press release, Fink entered the January 15, 2026 earnings call saying BlackRock entered 2026 with "strengthening momentum across our entire platform."

BlackRock AUM: $14 Trillion and the Growth Story

Revenue, Earnings and Profitability

iShares: The $5.5 Trillion ETF Empire

iShares is the most consequential acquisition in modern asset management history. When BlackRock bought iShares from Barclays Global Investors in 2009 for $13.5 billion, the platform had approximately $300 billion in ETF assets. Sixteen years later, iShares has $5.5 trillion in AUM, generates over $8 billion in revenue annually, and commands approximately 32% of the entire global ETF market. For context: the entire global ETF industry had about $1 trillion in total assets when BlackRock made the acquisition. The industry now has over $17 trillion globally, and iShares has captured and held nearly a third of every dollar that has flowed into ETFs since 2009.

Aladdin: The Technology Platform Running $21 Trillion

Aladdin (Asset, Liability, Debt, and Derivative Investment Network) is BlackRock's proprietary technology platform and one of the most important pieces of financial infrastructure in the world. It processes risk analytics, portfolio management and trading for approximately $21 trillion in assets globally, an amount that includes not only BlackRock's own $14 trillion under management but also the portfolios of hundreds of external clients including pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors who license Aladdin as their operating system.

Technology services and subscription revenue from Aladdin grew approximately 24% year-over-year in both Q4 2025 and for the full year 2025. Annual contract value (ACV) increased 31% year-over-year in 2025 including the contribution from Preqin, and 16% organically. The acquisition of Preqin in March 2025 extended Aladdin's reach into private markets data, a sector where investors have been historically underserved by technology solutions. Technology ACV approaches $2 billion in annual revenue as of entering 2026, making Aladdin one of the fastest-growing enterprise SaaS businesses in global financial services.

The Three Acquisitions That Transformed BlackRock in 2024-2025

BLK Stock Performance and Valuation

Revenue by Business Segment

BlackRock vs Competitors: Scale Comparison

BlackRock Key Statistics: Full Data Table

The table below covers all key BlackRock financial and operational statistics. Click any column to sort.

BlackRock 2026 Outlook

Frequently Asked Questions

What Comes Next?

BlackRock's Q1 2026 earnings on April 11 will answer the most important near-term question: how much AUM has the Iran war equity market selloff erased from the Q4 2025 record of $14.04 trillion, and how quickly is HPS generating the private credit fee run-rate that management guided in January? The Iran war is a headwind primarily through market appreciation reversal (lower equity prices reduce AUM and therefore base fees), not through direct business disruption. BlackRock's revenue is approximately 55% base fees tied to AUM levels, so a sustained equity market decline of 10% translates to approximately a 5–6% reduction in base fee run-rate revenue.

The longer-term story is more interesting and more important. Larry Fink has stated that 2026 is the first full year as a unified platform. The strategic questions are whether BlackRock can democratise private markets at scale for retail and wealth management clients, whether Aladdin's private markets extension via Preqin translates to ACV growth comparable to the public markets Aladdin business, and whether the digital assets and tokenisation initiatives generate a new revenue stream of meaningful size. BlackRock built the largest passive investing platform in the world by being early, disciplined and patient in ETFs from 1994 through 2009 and then scaling aggressively from 2009 onwards. The firm is applying the same playbook to private markets and digital assets. It has $675 billion in alternatives AUM, a $400 billion fundraising target through 2030, and more distribution infrastructure than any competitor. The parallels to 2009 are striking.