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$83B Market cap · 2026-10-07
Blackstone? ✔️ Alphabet? ✔️ 10 banks salivating to provide $22bn in chip financing? ✔️ All for Crux AI, a company that launched THIS month (w/ $5bn equity from $BX). Crazy to remember this asset class barely EXISTED not too long ago https://t.co/hT0pjvDgKI
*GOOGLE, BLACKSTONE VENTURE FACES DELAYS AT DATA-CENTER SITES "Alphabet Inc. and Blackstone Inc.’s new cloud venture has hit delays for major data-center locations that were supposed to run Google’s chips, underscoring the obstacles standing in the way of Big Tech’s AI ambitions." - BN If $GOOG and $BX can’t get by without delays it’s hard to imagine other neoclouds getting by without issues
Jersey Mike’s IPO filing shows 47% adjusted EBITDA margin after Blackstone cut founder spending, ad subsidies and Area Director fees, while…
$hood perps announcement today is leverage^3 .......what could go wrong? perhaps some lessons from the bucket shops, and leverage dynamics of the 29' crash should be heeded. Their GoT theatrical announcement today and the $BX Taylor swift Christmas videos are going to age extremely well when the cycle busts
H&R REIT’s renewed talks with Blackstone cover some assets, following office and U.S.
I pasted two screenshots from $PS's 424B4. If you look at fee paying AUM, it's $16 bn excl HHH which has a de minimis mgmt fee/carry. Add in $PSUS and you are at $21 bn of fee paying AUM. $PS discloses pro forma mgmt fees of $238 mm but that is net of $91 mm of non-cash amort related to the IPO. So I'm going to give them credit for $329 mm of mgmt fees. Assuming a 65% operating margin and a 20% tax rate, that gives me effective fee paying earnings of $171 mm. $PSH.LN has a 16% incentive fee and $PS is entitled to the performance fees on the first 5% (the team gets beyond that). On $15 bn, this is $15 bn * 5% * 16% = $120 mm or $96 mm after tax. Add up the mgmt fee and performance fee share, and I get $267 mm of expected earnings or $0.67/share. Implies $PS is trading at around ~50x EPS vs. $KKR at 17x, $ARES at 20x, $BX at 21x. Of course you can layer in some minor $HHH economics and it takes down the multiple a couple of turns. But you could also layer in a few years of sub 5% returns and that takes away the performance fee too. Certainly a 50x EPS valuation is pretty common for a fast growing higher ROIC biz. But it's by no means cheap. The question is, how will Ackman raise any money from here? $PSH.LN is at a discount to NAV, $PSUS is at a discount to NAV and $HHH is at a discount to NAV. One thing that will allow $PS to grow into its valuation is great results as that will 1) scale up the earnings (as it's based on % of AUM) and 2) facilitate new investors. Another way to contextualize the valuation is to simply look at fee paying AUM of $21 bn and compare that to the equity value of $13 bn. That is pretty unprecedented in the land of asset managers but reflects in part the permanent capital and the limited float (I think its just the 20mm shares given in the IPO). Could easily see a lot of price pressure once the 380mm non-IPO related investors are free to sell.
Continuation vehicles were a big thing in '25 as many private equity firms struggled to find exits for portcos. But they're not new. In '21, Platinum Equity dumped its portco United Site Services into a CV invested in by Fortress, $ARES & $BX. How'd that turn out? Well, sheeyit.
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