BX vs PED 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).

PEDEVCO Corp is an oil and gas company focused on the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas assets in modern drilling and completion techniques and technologies have yet to be applied. The company focuses on legacy proved properties where there is a long production history, well-defined geology and existing infrastructure that can be leveraged when applying modern field management technologies. The current properties of the company are located in the San Andres formation of the Permian Basin situated in West Texas and eastern New Mexico (the Permian Basin) and in the Denver-Julesberg Basin (D-J Basin) in Colorado and Wyoming.