BlackRock The World's Biggest Asset Manager Is Winning the Business and Losing the Tape — BLK Near $990 as Margin Fears Collide With Record $14T AUM

BlackRock shares changed hands near $990 into Monday, sitting close to their lowest level since April and carrying a market cap around $162 billion. Over the past four weeks the stock shed roughly 8.5%, and over the trailing year it's down about 3.2% — a poor run for the world's largest asset manager. That's the puzzle at the center of this forecast: the stock is sliding while the business is setting records. BlackRock ended 2025 with $14 trillion in assets under management, hauled in a record $698 billion of full-year net inflows, and then kept the momentum going into 2026 with another $130 billion of net inflows in the first quarter. The franchise has never been bigger or more dominant. Yet the share price rolled over from its highs near $1,074 in May and has been grinding lower ever since, dropping to $982 in late June before the modest stabilization near $990. The gap between the operating story and the stock price is the whole setup. On one side sits a business firing on every cylinder — record AUM, record inflows, an aggressive land grab across private markets, crypto and stablecoins, and an analyst community that still rates the stock a Buy with targets stretching to $1,430. On the other sits a share price in a multi-month correction, pressured by margin erosion, management turmoil in its private-credit unit, and a round of layoffs. Both things are true at once, and the market is trying to decide which one matters more. The stock topped out late in 2025 and has been correcting since, forming a multi-month compression pattern as the bulls' record-inflow story fights the bears' margin-and-management concerns. At $990, near its April low, BLK is testing whether the franchise's strength can arrest the slide or whether the de-rating has further to run. The Q2 earnings report on July 15 is the catalyst that has to resolve the split. Until then, the stock is a quality franchise trading at a beaten-down price, with the burden on the bulls to prove the operational strength translates back into the share price. The story and the stock have diverged, and $990 is where the market is weighing which one wins.

$14 trillion in AUM and record inflows: the franchise is winning

Start with what's going right, because the operating numbers are extraordinary. BlackRock finished 2025 with $14 trillion in assets under management on the back of a record $698 billion of full-year net inflows, including $342 billion in the fourth quarter alone. That's not a good year — it's the strongest year of net inflows in the company's history, and it came with 12% annualized organic base fee growth in the fourth quarter, a sign the money coming in the door is high-quality, fee-generating flow rather than low-margin cash. The momentum carried straight into 2026. The first quarter brought another $130 billion of total net inflows, with the iShares ETF platform posting a record first quarter of $132 billion in net inflows as money rotated into international and precision exposures. Over the trailing twelve months, net inflows hit $744 billion with 10% organic base fee growth, broad-based across ETFs, private markets and systematic active strategies. Revenue climbed 27% year-over-year in the first quarter, powered by markets, organic growth, and the fees from the firm's acquisition spree. The scale here is almost hard to comprehend. At $14 trillion, BlackRock manages more money than the GDP of every country except the United States and China, and the iShares franchise is the dominant force in the global ETF market — the vehicle that captured the lion's share of the passive-investing wave and keeps compounding its lead. Every quarter of record inflows widens the moat, because scale in asset management is self-reinforcing: more assets means more fee revenue, which funds more product development and distribution, which pulls in more assets. That flywheel is the bull case in one sentence. The record inflows also validate the strategic direction. BlackRock isn't just growing its traditional index and active business — it's pulling in flows across the newer, higher-margin areas of private markets and alternatives that it's been building through acquisition. The $744 billion of trailing net inflows is the proof that the franchise is winning market share across the board, not just in one segment. For the forecast, the AUM and inflow numbers are the foundation of the bull thesis. A business setting inflow records and growing organic base fees at double digits is a business whose earnings power is expanding, and the analyst targets of $1,250-plus are built on that expansion continuing. The franchise is winning. The question is why the stock isn't.

The margin problem that's pressuring the stock

Here's the answer to why the stock is sliding despite record inflows: margins. BlackRock's 2025 revenue rose 18.67% to $24.22 billion, but earnings fell 12.81% to $5.55 billion — a jarring divergence that tells the whole story of the stock's weakness. Revenue up nearly 19%, profit down nearly 13%, and that gap is the margin problem the market is punishing. The culprit is the cost structure. The company revised its operating margin estimates down to 43.9% for 2025 and 45.2% for 2026, reflecting a decline from prior expectations driven primarily by a higher compensation ratio. When a firm has to pay out more of its revenue in compensation to retain talent and integrate acquisitions, the operating leverage that makes asset management so profitable gets diluted, and the earnings don't keep pace with the revenue growth. That's exactly what happened in 2025. The acquisition strategy that's driving the revenue growth is also weighing on the margins. BlackRock has spent heavily to build out its private-markets and data capabilities through deals for infrastructure, private credit and analytics platforms, and those acquisitions come with integration costs, higher compensation, and dilution that hit the bottom line even as they expand the top line. The 12.81% earnings decline in 2025 was largely a function of noncash acquisition-related expenses and a heavier comp ratio, and the market has been repricing the stock to reflect a business that's growing revenue but not converting it to profit at the rate it used to. For the forecast, the margin problem is the core of the bear thesis and the reason the stock has de-rated. The analyst targets assume BlackRock hits its 45%-plus adjusted operating margin goal and that the acquisition costs prove temporary, restoring the operating leverage. If that happens, the earnings catch up to the revenue and the stock reprices higher toward the $1,250-$1,430 targets. If the margin pressure persists — if the comp ratio stays elevated and the acquisitions keep diluting profitability — then the earnings disappoint and the stock stays under pressure regardless of how strong the inflows are. The $990 price reflects a market that's skeptical the margins recover quickly. Revenue growth is easy to admire, but the market pays for earnings, and BlackRock's earnings went the wrong way in 2025. That's the disconnect the stock is pricing, and it's why record AUM hasn't translated into a record share price.

Private credit trouble: TCP, departures, and a probe

Layered on top of the margin concern is a cluster of trouble in BlackRock's private-credit business, and the headlines have been ugly. BlackRock TCP Capital — the firm's business-development company — has seen its CEO, Phil Tseng, moving to leave the company after losses on loans and news of a regulatory probe into the firm's valuation practices. A CEO departure tied to loan losses and a valuation probe is the kind of headline that spooks the market, because it raises questions about risk management in exactly the high-growth area BlackRock has been pushing into. It didn't stop there. The head of BlackRock's private-credit fund is also leaving amid what's been described as signs of trouble, a second senior departure from the same corner of the business in a short window. Two leadership exits from the private-credit unit, one of them linked to a regulatory probe into valuations, is a pattern the market reads as a red flag, and it's part of why the stock has been under pressure even as the broader inflow numbers set records. The timing is awkward. BlackRock has staked a big part of its growth strategy on expanding into private markets and private credit — the higher-margin, less commoditized areas that are supposed to offset the fee compression in its traditional index business. So trouble in private credit strikes at the heart of the growth narrative. If the market starts to doubt BlackRock's ability to manage risk and valuations in private credit, it undercuts the premium the stock deserves for its expansion into those areas. For the forecast, the private-credit troubles are a genuine overhang that adds to the margin concern. They don't threaten the $14 trillion franchise — private credit is a small slice of the overall AUM — but they damage the narrative and inject uncertainty about the quality of the growth. A regulatory probe into valuation practices is the kind of thing that can drag on, generate more negative headlines, and cap the stock until it's resolved. The market is pricing that uncertainty, and it's part of why BLK trades at $990 rather than closer to the analyst targets. The bull case needs the private-credit story to stabilize — no more departures, a clean resolution to the probe — for the stock to recover its premium. Until then, the trouble in TCP and the private-credit fund is a cloud over an otherwise strong franchise, and it's weighing on the tape.

200 layoffs and a leaner cost structure

BlackRock's response to the margin pressure has been to cut, and the market is watching how the cost discipline plays out. The firm moved to adopt regular headcount reductions and to eliminate around 200 employees, a signal that management is attacking the compensation ratio that's been diluting the margins. With roughly 24,900 employees, a 200-person cut is modest in absolute terms, but the shift to regular cuts marks a change in posture — from a firm that spent freely to grow through acquisition to one that's now focused on wringing out the operating leverage those acquisitions were supposed to deliver. The cost discipline ties directly to the 45%-plus adjusted operating margin target. BlackRock has told the market it intends to restore its margins to the mid-40s and above, and hitting that target requires exactly the kind of expense management the layoffs represent. If the firm can hold its revenue growth while trimming its cost base, the operating leverage returns and the earnings catch up to the top line — which is the path to the stock repricing higher. The layoffs are a down payment on that promise. The market's read is mixed. On one hand, cost discipline is what the margin-focused bears have been demanding, and evidence that management is serious about the 45% target is a positive for the earnings trajectory. On the other, layoffs at a firm posting record inflows can read as a sign that the profitability isn't keeping pace with the growth — that BlackRock has to cut costs precisely because the acquisitions and the comp ratio have squeezed the margins harder than expected. The same action can be bullish or bearish depending on the framing, and the stock's weakness suggests the market is leaning toward the cautious interpretation for now. For the forecast, the cost cuts are a factor that could tip the margin story either way. If the July 15 earnings show the expense discipline flowing through to a recovering operating margin, it validates the 45% target and supports the bull case. If the margins stay pressured despite the cuts, it confirms the bears' concern that the comp ratio and acquisition costs are structural rather than temporary. The 200 layoffs are management's answer to the margin problem, and the market wants to see the answer work before it pays up for the stock. It's a leaner BlackRock trying to prove it can convert record revenue into record earnings, and the proof comes on July 15.

The crypto and stablecoin land grab

BlackRock isn't playing defense everywhere — in digital assets, it's on offense, and aggressively. The firm's iShares Bitcoin Trust is the dominant spot Bitcoin ETF, and BlackRock followed it up by launching a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF that harvests options premium on top of Bitcoin exposure, extending its crypto product suite into income strategies. That's the firm doing what it does best — taking a new asset class and building the institutional-grade wrapper that pulls in mainstream money. The bigger move is in stablecoins. BlackRock joined Stripe and Visa to back Open USD, a new stablecoin that landed as a direct rival to Circle's USDC — and the launch crashed Circle's stock by around 17% as the market grasped that the biggest names in payments and asset management were building a competitor. A BlackRock-backed stablecoin is a serious threat to the incumbents, because it brings distribution, credibility and balance-sheet heft that a standalone issuer can't match. The firm also expanded its partnership with Ethena Labs, integrating Ethena's stablecoin products including Ethena USD into its Aladdin risk-management platform, giving institutional clients access to those products through the system that already sits at the center of the global asset-management infrastructure. The crypto and stablecoin push matters for the forecast because it's where BlackRock's growth optionality lives. Digital assets are a nascent, fast-growing category, and BlackRock is positioning to own the institutional layer of it — the ETFs, the stablecoins, the platform integrations — the same way it came to dominate ETFs. If that positioning pays off, it adds a growth vector that the current stock price isn't fully crediting. The catch is timing and headline risk. The same week BlackRock was building its stablecoin, its iShares Bitcoin Trust was shedding coins — the firm sold over 1,000 Bitcoin from IBIT as the token struggled to hold the $60,000 floor, part of the record $4.5 billion of June outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs. So the crypto exposure cuts both ways: BlackRock captures fees on the way up and bleeds assets on the way down, and Bitcoin's current drawdown is a headwind for the ETF business. For the forecast, the digital-asset land grab is a long-term bullish optionality that the market isn't paying much for right now, given the crypto drawdown. It's the growth story beneath the growth story — a bet that BlackRock owns the institutional plumbing of digital assets as they mature. That bet is real, but it's not what moves the stock at $990. The near-term tape is driven by margins and management, not by the stablecoin that could matter in three years.

The private-markets machine: GIP, HPS and Preqin

Beyond crypto, BlackRock has been reshaping itself into a private-markets powerhouse through a string of major acquisitions, and 2026 is its first full year operating as that unified platform. The firm folded in Global Infrastructure Partners, HPS for private credit, and Preqin for private-markets data, transforming from a public-markets index giant into a diversified alternatives manager. The strategic logic is clear: private markets carry higher fees and stickier assets than the commoditized index business, so building scale there is how BlackRock defends its margins against the relentless fee compression in ETFs. The machine is already producing deals. Through Global Infrastructure Partners, BlackRock led a consortium with EQT that won shareholder approval to acquire AES Corporation — a major infrastructure transaction that shows the GIP platform deploying capital at scale. The firm also registered shares for the HPS deal consideration, integrating the private-credit franchise that's central to its alternatives ambitions. These are the moves that expand BlackRock's addressable market beyond the trillions it already manages in public markets into the higher-margin world of infrastructure, private credit and real assets. The tension is the same one running through the whole story. The private-markets expansion is the strategic growth engine — the reason the analyst targets reach $1,430 — but it's also the source of the margin dilution and the private-credit troubles that are pressuring the stock. The acquisitions bring integration costs, a higher comp ratio, and the risk-management challenges that surfaced in the TCP and private-credit fund departures. The strategy and the problem are the same strategy. For the forecast, the private-markets machine is the long-term bull case and the near-term bear case simultaneously. If the acquisitions deliver the promised growth and margin expansion, BlackRock becomes a more diversified, higher-margin, faster-growing business worth well above $990. If they keep diluting earnings and generating negative headlines, the stock stays pressured while the market waits for the strategy to prove itself. The AES deal shows the machine works when it works. The private-credit departures show it carries risk. The market is pricing both, and the balance tips on execution — on whether BlackRock can integrate GIP, HPS and Preqin into the margin-accretive platform it's promised, or whether the costs and complications keep weighing on the profitability. The private-markets bet is the defining strategic move of BlackRock's decade, and the stock at $990 reflects a market that hasn't yet decided whether to reward it.

Q2 earnings July 15: the catalyst that resolves the gap

Everything about BlackRock's near-term path comes down to one date: July 15, when the firm reports second-quarter earnings before the New York Stock Exchange opens. That print is the catalyst that has to resolve the gap between the record-inflow story and the sliding stock — the market will finally see whether the margin discipline is working and whether the inflows are still setting records. The earnings history is strong. Last quarter, BlackRock posted EPS of $12.53 against an $11.65 estimate — a 7.53% beat — and the estimate for the coming quarter sits at $12.58. A company that just beat by more than 7% heads into its next report with momentum, and another beat would go a long way toward arresting the stock's slide. But the market won't be looking only at the headline EPS. The three numbers that matter most are the net inflows, the organic base fee growth, and the operating margin. Strong inflows would confirm the franchise is still winning; double-digit organic base fee growth would show the flows are high-quality; and a recovering operating margin toward the 45% target would prove the cost discipline is working and the earnings can catch up to the revenue. Hit all three and the stock has the fuel to reprice toward the analyst targets. The risk is a print that confirms the bears. If the inflows slow, the base fee rate weakens, or the margins stay pressured despite the layoffs, the market gets confirmation that the record-AUM story isn't translating to earnings, and the stock could break its April low. The report also carries the private-credit overhang — any commentary on the TCP situation, the valuation probe, or further departures will move the stock. For the forecast, July 15 is the binary event that breaks the stock out of its correction. Everything before it is positioning near $990 support; everything after it is the trend that positioning resolves into. The compression pattern the stock has been forming for months tends to resolve sharply, and an earnings catalyst of this weight is exactly the kind of event that forces the resolution. The setup favors watching the print rather than pre-positioning: BlackRock is defending its April low into a report that will show whether the franchise's strength or its margin problems win the argument. The market has been waiting for proof one way or the other, and on July 15 it gets it. The gap between the story and the stock closes on earnings day.

Analyst desk: Buy consensus, $1,250 to $1,430 targets

Wall Street hasn't given up on BlackRock — the analyst community remains firmly in the bull camp even as the stock slides. The consensus rating is Buy, with roughly 38% of covering analysts at Strong Buy, 46% at Buy, 15% at Hold, and none at Sell or Strong Sell — a lopsidedly positive distribution that reflects confidence in the franchise despite the near-term weakness. The price targets tell the same story. The consensus 12-month target sits around $1,251, which implies roughly 26% upside from $990, while individual targets run higher. Morgan Stanley's Michael Cyprys raised his target to $1,430 from $1,393 and kept an Overweight rating, and other desks have targets clustered in the $1,250-to-$1,430 range. Statistical models push year-end estimates as high as $1,343 to $1,463. Taken together, the sell-side is pricing 26% to 45% upside from current levels — a wide gap between where the stock trades and where the analysts think it belongs. That gap is the crux of the bull case. The analysts are looking through the margin noise and the private-credit headlines to the underlying franchise — the record $14 trillion AUM, the $744 billion of trailing inflows, the private-markets expansion, the crypto optionality — and concluding the stock is worth substantially more than $990. Their targets assume BlackRock hits its 45% margin goal, integrates its acquisitions successfully, and keeps compounding its inflow lead. The bear counterpoint is that the same analysts have watched the stock fall to its April low while maintaining their bullish targets, which means either the market is wrong and the stock is a bargain, or the analysts are behind the curve and the targets will come down. Some models are outright bearish near-term, flagging the stock as pressured despite the long-term franchise strength. For the forecast, the analyst consensus defines the upside case. A Buy rating with targets 26% to 45% above the current price says the professionals see a quality franchise trading at a discount, and if the July 15 earnings validate the margin recovery, the stock has room to close that gap. But targets are only as good as the assumptions behind them, and those assumptions rest on the margin story turning. The $1,430 Morgan Stanley target is the bull's north star; the stock's slide to $990 is the market's skepticism. The distance between them — roughly $440 per share — is the size of the bet that BlackRock's operational strength eventually wins.

Technicals: a stock in correction near support

The chart tells a cautionary story that tempers the analyst optimism. BlackRock has been in a multi-month correction since topping late in 2025, sliding from the May high near $1,074 to the June low around $982 and forming a compression pattern that's been tightening for months. The stock trades near that April-to-June low, and holding it is what separates a base-building consolidation from a deeper leg lower. The technical picture is bearish in the near term. Short-term models flag the stock as likely to decline, and some of the more aggressive technical reads carry downside repricing targets well below current levels if the correction extends — a reminder that a stock breaking multi-month support can fall further than the fundamentals suggest before it finds a floor. The compression pattern the stock has been forming tends to resolve with a sharp move, and the direction of that resolution likely hinges on the July 15 earnings. The key levels are clear. Support sits at the recent low near $982 — the April-to-June floor the stock is defending. Hold it and the stock has a base from which to recover toward its resistance; lose it decisively and the correction resumes toward lower targets. On the upside, resistance sits at the May high near $1,074, then higher toward the moving averages that the stock fell below during the correction. Reclaiming $1,074 would be the signal that the downtrend has stalled and the stock is turning back toward the analyst targets. For the forecast, the technicals argue for respecting the correction until the stock proves it can hold support and reclaim resistance. The bearish trend and the compression pattern say the path of least resistance has been lower, and the stock needs a positive catalyst — most likely the July 15 earnings — to break the pattern to the upside. The gap between the bullish analyst targets and the bearish technical structure is the same gap that runs through the whole story: a quality franchise whose stock is in a downtrend. The chart doesn't care about the record AUM; it cares about the price action, and the price action has been weak. Until BLK holds $982 and reclaims $1,074, the technical read is a stock in correction near support, vulnerable to a break lower if the earnings disappoint, and positioned for a sharp bounce if they impress. The levels frame the risk, and $982 is the line that matters most.

The dividend and the valuation case

For the patient shareholder, BlackRock offers a dividend and a valuation argument that firm up the floor under the stock. The firm pays a quarterly dividend of $5.73 per share, raised 10% this year, for a trailing yield around 2.2% at $990. The payout ratio sits near 59%, leaving room for the dividend to keep growing as earnings recover, and BlackRock has a long track record of raising its distribution and returning capital through buybacks — it returned $5 billion to shareholders in 2025, including $1.6 billion of repurchases. That capital-return discipline is part of what makes the stock a core holding for income-focused portfolios. The valuation case rests on the gap between the stock's price and its earnings power. With EPS running above $12 per quarter and the analysts modeling continued growth, BlackRock trades at a multiple that looks reasonable for a franchise growing AUM at record rates — and cheaper than it's been in a while after the correction. The de-rating from the highs has pulled the valuation down toward levels that the bulls argue undervalue the quality of the business and the durability of its fee streams. A $14 trillion asset manager with a dominant ETF franchise, a growing private-markets platform, and a 2.2% dividend yield is the kind of blue-chip financial that value-oriented capital accumulates on weakness. The dividend and the buyback provide a return even if the stock stays range-bound, and the low-59% payout ratio means the distribution is well-covered and likely to keep rising. For the forecast, the dividend and valuation are the ballast under the stock — the reason the downside is likely cushioned even in the bear case. A quality franchise yielding 2.2% with a growing dividend and an active buyback attracts income and value buyers as the price falls, which is part of why $982 has held as support. The valuation case aligns with the analyst targets: if the market pays a normal multiple for BlackRock's earnings power, the stock belongs higher than $990. The dividend is the consolation for waiting, and the buyback is management putting capital behind the view that the stock is cheap. For the shareholder weighing the correction against the franchise, the 2.2% yield and the discounted valuation are the arguments for treating the weakness as an opportunity rather than a warning — though the margin story still has to turn for the valuation gap to close.

Scenarios: where BLK goes from $990

Three paths run out from $990, and the July 15 earnings largely decide which one plays out. The bull case: the Q2 print delivers strong inflows, double-digit organic base fee growth, and a recovering operating margin toward the 45% target, proving the cost discipline is working and the record-AUM story is translating to earnings. The stock reclaims $1,074, breaks the multi-month downtrend, and reprices toward the analyst targets of $1,250 and beyond, with Morgan Stanley's $1,430 the stretch objective. This path implies 26% to 45% upside, and it's the scenario the Buy consensus is built on. It needs the margins to turn and the private-credit troubles to stabilize. The base case: BlackRock holds its $982 support and ranges between there and the $1,074 resistance as the earnings show record inflows but only gradual margin improvement, leaving the market to keep weighing the franchise strength against the margin and management concerns. The dividend and valuation cushion the downside while the overhang caps the upside, producing a range-bound stock in the high $900s to low $1,000s until the margin recovery becomes clear. This is the most probable near-term outcome given the compression pattern and the unresolved margin story. The bear case: the earnings disappoint — slowing inflows, a weaker base fee rate, or margins still pressured despite the layoffs — and the stock breaks its April low toward the lower repricing targets as the market concludes the record AUM isn't converting to profit. Further private-credit departures or a negative development in the valuation probe would accelerate the move. This path needs the margin problems to prove structural rather than temporary. The levels frame the risk: about $84 of downside to the $982 support that must hold, roughly $84 of upside to the $1,074 resistance that would signal a turn, and a long climb of $260-plus to the $1,251 consensus target. The near-term picture is a stock in correction resting on support, with the July 15 earnings as the binary catalyst. The medium-term picture, per the analysts, is a quality franchise trading at a 26%-to-45% discount to fair value. Those two views collide on earnings day, and the resolution sets the trend. That's a stock to watch into July 15: respect $982 support, watch for the margin recovery, and let the print decide the direction.

The forecast: quality on sale, but respect the downtrend

Put it together and BlackRock is a quality franchise trading at a beaten-down price, with a near-term stance that's cautious into the July 15 catalyst and constructive on the medium-term franchise. The stock at $990 sits near its April low, down 8.5% over the past month, in a multi-month correction — yet the business behind it set records, with $14 trillion in AUM, $698 billion of 2025 net inflows, and $130 billion more in the first quarter. That disconnect is the entire setup. The bull case is the analyst consensus: a Buy rating, targets from $1,251 to $1,430 implying 26% to 45% upside, built on record inflows, the private-markets expansion through GIP and HPS, the crypto and stablecoin land grab via IBIT and Open USD, and a 45%-plus margin target that would restore the operating leverage. The bear case is concrete and current: 2025 earnings fell 12.81% despite an 18.67% revenue jump as the comp ratio and acquisition costs squeezed margins, the private-credit unit is bleeding leadership amid a valuation probe, and the stock is in a technical downtrend near support. The levels are clean. $982 is the line that must hold — lose it and the correction extends toward lower repricing targets; hold it and the stock has a base. $1,074 is the resistance that would signal the downtrend has stalled and the stock is turning toward the analyst targets. The dividend of $5.73 quarterly, yielding 2.2% with a 59% payout ratio and an active buyback, cushions the downside and firms the valuation case. The catalyst is July 15 — the Q2 earnings that will show whether the margin discipline is working and the inflows are still setting records. Watch three numbers: net inflows, organic base fee growth, and the operating margin. Hit them and the stock reprices higher toward $1,251-plus; miss them and it breaks $982. The verdict: quality on sale for the patient shareholder who believes the franchise strength eventually wins, but a stock to respect the downtrend on until the July 15 print proves the margins are turning. Constructive medium-term on the record franchise and the 26%-to-45% analyst upside, cautious near-term on the margin overhang, the private-credit troubles, and the bearish technical structure. BlackRock is winning the business and losing the tape — and July 15 is when the market decides which one it pays for. Respect $982, watch the earnings, and let the margins lead.

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