BX vs BKKT Comparison

Blackstone is the world's largest alternative-asset manager with $1.108 trillion in total asset under management, including $820.5 billion in fee-earning assets under management, at the end of September 2024. The company has four core business segments: private equity (25% of fee-earning AUM and 30% of base management fees), real estate (35% and 39%), credit and insurance (31% and 24%), and multi-asset investing (9% and 7%). While the firm primarily serves institutional investors (87% of AUM), it also caters to clients in the high-net-worth channel (13%). Blackstone operates through 25 offices in the Americas (8), Europe and the Middle East (9), and the Asia-Pacific region (8).

Bakkt Holdings Inc operates technology that connects the digital economy by offering a platform for crypto and redeeming loyalty points. Its institutional-grade technology platform provides a custody solution that caters to more experienced market participants to store crypto and provides consumers, businesses, and institutions with the ability to buy, sell, and store crypto in a simple, intuitive digital experience accessed via application programming interfaces (APIs) or embedded web experience, and Loyalty offers a full spectrum of content that clients can make available to its customers when redeeming loyalty currencies. It generates revenue in the form of Subscription and service and Transaction revenue.