In its much-watched New York Stock Exchange debut, private equity firm The Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) spent Friday narrowly trading within $1 of its $36.45 opening price. Amid selling elsewhere on Wall Street, Blackstone shares had settled at $35.43 by 3:30 p.m. on volume of 105.1 million, up 14.3% from its $31 initial-public-offering price.
Blackstone raised $4.13 billion Thursday in its 133.4-million-share IPO, the largest in the U.S. since CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT)'s $4.6 billion IPO in 2002. The offering represents a 12.3 percent stake in the buyout firm, giving Blackstone a capitalized value of $38.4 billion at the shares' late Friday price.
The Blackstone Group is a top global alternative asset manager and provider of financial advisory services. The firm manages about $88.4 billion in assets, concentrating recently on the commercial real-estate and hospitality industries.
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6-27-2007 @ 9:22PM
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