Blackstone (NYSE:BX) has continued to dramatically increase its profitability across a variety of asset management and credit products as well as real estate and private equity investments in the recent year. Despite this, Blackstone's valuation has remained sunken ever since its collapse from its extraordinary high in mid-2015 and then almost immediate collapse.
Despite a roaring bull market and growing value across a broad range of alternative investment asset classes that has bolstered many other asset management and private equity companies, it appears that the market discount applied to Blackstone remains stuck.
With the sluggish growth, Blackstone is still struggling to make even with the current strong tailwinds; if the market were to turn around, there still appears to be significant downside risk as Blackstone saw during 2016's volatility and market sluggishness.
