BX vs PED Comparison

Blackstone is the world's largest alternative-asset manager with $1.304 trillion in total assets under management, including $937.6 billion in fee-earning assets under management, at the end of March 2026. The company operates with scale in each of its major product lines: private equity (27% of fee-earning AUM and 34% of base management fees), real estate/real assets (30% and 33%), credit and insurance (33% and 26%), and other alternatives (10% and 7%). While the firm primarily serves institutional investors (84% of AUM), it also caters to clients in the high-net-worth channel (16%). 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 oil and natural gas development, exploration, and production. The company focuses on legacy properties with a long production history, well-defined geology, and existing infrastructure that can be leveraged when applying modern field management technologies. The current properties in the Denver-Julesberg Basin (D-J Basin) in Colorado and Wyoming, the Powder River Basin (PRB) in Wyoming, and the San Andres formation of the Permian Basin situated in West Texas and eastern New Mexico (the Permian Basin).