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NYSE:BX News 19 July 2025 - 23 October 2025

Blackstone (BX) Shines With Big Q3 Beat & $18B Hologic Deal – But Why Are Shares Falling?

Blackstone (BX) Shines With Big Q3 Beat & $18B Hologic Deal – But Why Are Shares Falling?

Q3 Earnings and Market Reaction Blackstone’s latest results (for the quarter ended Sept. 30) painted a mixed picture. The firm reported distributable earnings of $1.889 billion ($1.52 per share), up 48% from a year ago and well above the $1.23 forecast reuters.com. (Distributable earnings roughly measure cash profits available for dividends.) However, on a GAAP basis net income dropped to $624.9 million ($0.80/share) from $780.8 million last year, and total revenue slid about 15.7% year-over-year ts2.tech. Investors focused on the earnings miss and slowing revenue, which partly offset the beat on cash profit. As a result, BX shares dipped about 1% intraday on Oct. 23,
23 October 2025
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Blackstone & TPG in $18B Hologic Takeover Shock – Women’s Health Stock Skyrockets

Blackstone & TPG in $18B Hologic Takeover Shock – Women’s Health Stock Skyrockets

Deal Details and Company Background Hologic (NYSE: HOLX) is a Marlborough, MA–based medical technology firm focused on women’s health. Its products include mammography and breast biopsy systems, cervical cancer tests, surgical equipment (notably after its acquisition of Gynesonics), and lab diagnostics including molecular tests for Covid-19 bostonglobe.com. The Blackstone/TPG consortium will buy all outstanding Hologic shares for $76 cash plus a $3 CVR (contingent on hitting revenue goals in 2026–27 for the breast health business) marketscreener.com. This values the deal at $79 per share maximum and around $18.3 billion total enterprise value marketscreener.com. The purchase price represents a roughly 46%
21 October 2025
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AI Models Are Scheming – Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Stop Deceptive AI Behavior

How to Invest in OpenAI in 2025: All the Ways to Own a Stake in ChatGPT’s Creator

Understanding OpenAI’s Unique Structure and Investors OpenAI’s background: OpenAI started in 2015 as a research lab co-founded by Sam Altman and Elon Musk (among others) with a non-profit mission. In 2019, to fund expensive AI development, OpenAI created a hybrid for-profit entity (“OpenAI LP”) with a capped-profit model – investors can earn returns up to a certain limit, after which the majority of profits return to the original non-profit to support its mission reuters.com. This structure is highly unusual, and it’s part of why OpenAI hasn’t gone public yet. Altman has openly said he’s wary of an IPO in the
3 October 2025
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Tech Turmoil: Crypto Hits $4 Trillion, SpaceX’s 8,000 Satellites & More Non-AI Bombshells (July 18–19, 2025)

Tech Turmoil: Crypto Hits $4 Trillion, SpaceX’s 8,000 Satellites & More Non-AI Bombshells (July 18–19, 2025)

In July 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Microsoft to halt China-based engineering on Pentagon cloud work, with Frank Shaw saying no China-based teams will provide technical assistance and the involvement ending immediately. Blackstone withdrew from the TikTok US sale bid led by Susquehanna and General Atlantic, a consortium that could have given US owners an 80% stake, as the forced divestment deadline was pushed to Sept. 17. On July 21, 2025, India’s Enforcement Directorate summoned Google and Meta executives for questioning in a probe into illicit online betting ads and whether the platforms accepted payments to promote them. Nvidia
19 July 2025
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