BlackRock reported second-quarter 2026 diluted earnings per share of $14.06, or $12.53 on an adjusted basis, in results posted July 15, 2026 on its investor relations site. The firm had announced the reporting date on July 1 and held its earnings conference call the same day the numbers landed.

The earnings print arrives against a backdrop of consecutive asset-under-management (AUM) records spanning two years. AUM has climbed from $10.65 trillion in Q2 2024 through $11.48 trillion in Q3 2024, $12.53 trillion in Q2 2025, and $13.46 trillion in Q3 2025, reaching $14 trillion by Q4 2025. The firm also logged $698.3 billion in net inflows for the full year 2025—a record for annual client deposits minus withdrawals. The Q2 2026 investor relations page does not yet disclose an updated AUM figure alongside the earnings numbers, so $14 trillion from Q4 2025 remains the most recent confirmed level until the full Q2 2026 release.

The gap between reported and adjusted earnings carries real weight for modeling purposes. GAAP EPS of $14.06 versus adjusted EPS of $12.53 represents a spread of roughly $1.53 per share, or about 12%. That gap typically reflects non-operating items—mark-to-market gains on seed investments, co-investments, or one-off tax effects—that the adjusted figure strips out. Without the detailed reconciliation from the full earnings release, the exact breakdown isn't public yet, but the size of the variance means analysts building forward-looking profit models need that breakdown before drawing conclusions about true run-rate profitability.

For BlackRock's business model, sequential AUM movements matter more than for most financial institutions. The bulk of revenue comes from investment advisory and administration fees charged as a percentage of assets under management. The climb from $10.65 trillion to $14 trillion across six quarters translates fairly directly into management fee growth, though the shift toward lower-cost index funds and ETFs dampens that expansion on a per-dollar basis. The 2025 net inflow figure of $698.3 billion is the more telling organic-growth metric, since AUM also rises with stock market gains and currency movements—neither of which reflect actual client choices to invest fresh capital.

BlackRock's quarterly reporting pattern is routine: the firm has released second-quarter results in mid-July for at least the last three years. More useful for investors tracking the name is understanding BlackRock's own disclosure structure. The investor relations press release archive allows filtering by year and by category—All Releases, Earnings Releases, or Merger Releases—a distinction that matters given recent acquisition activity has generated its own release stream. The quarterly results page currently spans 2024 through 2026, giving a three-year lookback window without digging directly into SEC filings.

BlackRock held a 2025 Investor Day, noted on its IR site, though granular disclosures from that event aren't available in the sourced facts here. For analysts building models off management guidance, that event—rather than a single quarterly print—is where BlackRock typically lays out multi-year targets on organic base fee growth, technology services revenue (the Aladdin platform), and capital return policy. The July 15 quarterly numbers should be read in concert with whatever framework came out of that gathering, since a single quarter's earnings beat or miss carries less weight for a firm managing $14 trillion than the multi-year fee-growth algorithm management commits to.

On the administrative side: BlackRock is headquartered at 50 Hudson Yards in New York, trades on the NYSE under ticker BLK, and uses Computershare Investor Services in Jersey City as its transfer agent. None of that changes quarter to quarter, but it's the kind of detail relevant during proxy season or for shareholders managing direct registration.

One data point worth noting for anyone modeling off this release: the Q2 2026 disclosure gives earnings per share but not a companion AUM figure, net inflow number, or revenue breakdown. Given BlackRock's own historical pattern of publishing AUM records alongside each quarterly report, a Q2 2026 AUM disclosure likely accompanies the complete results but sits outside what's confirmed here. The $14.06 and $12.53 EPS figures are the hard numbers from this release; treat $14 trillion as the last confirmed AUM mark, dated to Q4 2025 reporting in January 2026.