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BlackRock, Inc.
345 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10154 * (212) 754-5560
Business Description The company is one of the 30 largest investment management firms in the United States with $131 billion of assets under management at December 31, 1998. After the offerings, we expect to be the fifth largest publicly-traded company focused on investment management in the United States on the basis of assets under management.
Offering
Information

Company has
gone public

Trading As  BLK (NYSE) Industry  Financial (SIC 6211)
Type of Stock Offered  Class A Common Shares Filing Date  5/13/99
Domestic Shares Offered  9,000,000 Offer Date  9/30/99
Foreign Shares Offered  0 Filing Range  $14.00 - $17.00
Company Shares  9,000,000 Offer Price  $14.00
Selling Shrhldrs Shares  0 Gross Spread  - -
Gross Proceeds  $126,000,000 Selling  - -
Expenses  - - Reallowance  - -
Post-IPO Shares  - - Employees  586
Spun out from PNC Bank Corp.
Primary
Underwriting
Group
Underwriter NameParticipationUnderwriter Phone
Merrill Lynch & Co. Lead Manager (212) 449-4600
Goldman, Sachs & Co. Co-manager (212) 902-5959
Lehman Brothers Incorporated Co-manager (212) 526-8100
Prudential Securities Incorporated Co-manager (212) 778-5420
Salomon Smith Barney Co-manager (212) 723-7300
Income
Statement
and
Cash Flow
Summary
  Prior
Audited
Income
Latest
Unaudited
Income
  Full Year Audited Figures - - Months Ending
Figures in U.S. millions except per share data 12/31/94 12/31/95 12/31/96 12/31/97 12/31/98    
Revenues   36.044 98.082 146.478 205.473 339.482 - -
Income from Oper.   7.986 23.181 35.536 55.873 79.362 - -
Net Income   5.564 5.086 8.963 22.086 35.615 - -
E.P.S   - - - - - - -
Revenue Growth (%)      172.12 49.34 40.28 65.220   -
Net Income Growth (%)      -8.59 76.23 146.41 61.26   -
Oper. Profit Margin (%)    22.16 23.63 24.26 27.19 23.38 - -
Net Profit Margin (%)    15.44 5.19 6.12 10.75 10.49 - -
Cash Flow - Oper.     53.74 - -
Cash Flow - Inv.     -5.01 - -
Cash Flow - Fin.     -4.36 - -
Balance Sheet
Summary
and
Financial
Ratios
Balance sheet as of: 12/31/98 Financial Ratios
Total Assets    440.78 Current Assets    - Current Ratio    -
Total Liab.    334.59 Current Liab.    - Debt Ratio    75.91%
Total Equity    106.19 Working Cap.    - Debt to Equity Ratio    3.15
Cash    113.45    Return on Assets   8.08%
Use Of
Proceeds
The proceeds from the proposed offering will be used to repay indebtedness under a revolving credit line agreement with PNC Bank.
Legal Counsel
Registrar
Auditor
Issuer's Law Firm  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Bank's Law Firm  Arnold & Porter
Auditor  Ernst & Young
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Industry
Competition
BlackRock competes with mutual fund companies, integrated asset and investment management firms, insurance companies, banks, brokerage firms and other financial institutions that offer products which have features and investment objectives similar to those offered by BlackRock. Many of the investment management firms with which BlackRock competes are subsidiaries of large diversified financial companies and many others are much larger in terms of assets under management and revenues and, accordingly, have much larger sales organizations and marketing budgets. Historically, BlackRock has competed primarily on the basis of the long-term performance of many of our funds. We believe BlackRock's asset management services are differentiated by our highly disciplined investment process, our extensive commitment to risk management systems, and the quality of our client services. Moreover, BlackRock has taken steps to substantially increase our distribution channels, brand name awareness and marketing efforts. Although there can be no assurance that BlackRock will be successful in these efforts, our net sales of mutual funds have increased significantly over the past year, and BlackRock's strategy is to continue to devote significant additional resources to our sales and marketing efforts.

Last updated: 10/3/99 10:23:15 AM
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