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BlackRock, run by co-founder, chairman and CEO Larry Fink, is the world's largest asset manager, with a record $15.3T under management in Q2 2026. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's July 2025 report 'From economy of occupation to economy of genocide' names it the second-largest institutional investor in Palantir (8.6%), Microsoft (7.8%), Amazon (6.6%), Alphabet (6.6%) and IBM (8.6%), and third-largest in Lockheed Martin (7.2%) and Caterpillar (7.5%). The same report records BlackRock buying $68M of the Israeli treasury bonds that 'played a critical role in funding the ongoing assault on Gaza'. Its stakes have grown since: at 30 June 2026 it held RTX shares worth $21.0B, Boeing $13.2B and Lockheed Martin $9.6B, plus 8.3% of Northrop Grumman. Days after 7 October 2023 Fink told CNBC that 'we have the largest ETF in Israel' and that nobody was divesting 'for political reasons'. The UN Commission of Inquiry concluded in Sept 2025 that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's July 2025 report names BlackRock the second-largest institutional investor in Palantir (8.6%), Microsoft (7.8%), Amazon (6.6%), Alphabet (6.6%) and IBM (8.6%), and third-largest in Lockheed Martin (7.2%) and Caterpillar (7.5%). It also records BlackRock buying $68M of the Israeli treasury bonds that 'played a critical role in funding the ongoing assault on Gaza'.
Sources: UN Human Rights Council (A/HRC/59/23)
At 30 June 2026 BlackRock reported 110.5M RTX shares ($21.0B), 61.0M Boeing shares ($13.2B), 18.9M Lockheed Martin shares ($9.6B), 11.8M Northrop Grumman shares ($6.0B) and 6.4% of General Dynamics. Data providers list it at about 9.5% of BAE Systems. Assets under management hit a record $15.3T in Q2 2026.
Sources: BlackRock, Inc. 13F-HR Q2 2026 holdings (accession 0002012383-26-003238), , ,
BlackRock was co-founded in 1988 by Larry Fink, Robert Kapito, Susan Wagner and five others. Fink told CNBC on 13 Oct 2023 that 'we have the largest ETF in Israel' and that nobody was divesting from Israel 'for political reasons'. The Jerusalem Post reports BlackRock 'has also opposed anti-Israel BDS-aligned resolutions'.
Sources: english.news.cn, CNBC, shephardmedia.com
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There were 230,790,753 shares of our common stock, $1 par value per share, outstanding as of July 20, 2026.
Issuer: GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION; Reporting Person: BlackRock, Inc.; Date of Event: 06/30/2026; Aggregate amount beneficially owned: 17,250,237.00; Percent of class: 6.4 %
Blackrock is the second largest institutional investor in Palantir (8.6 per cent), Microsoft (7.8 per cent), Amazon.com (6.6 per cent), Alphabet (6.6 per cent) and IBM (8.6 per cent).
Blackrock is the second largest institutional investor in Palantir (8.6 per cent), Microsoft (7.8 per cent), Amazon.com (6.6 per cent), Alphabet (6.6 per cent) and IBM (8.6 per cent).
third largest in Lockheed Martin (7.2 per cent) and Caterpillar (7.5 per cent)
Blackrock is the second largest institutional investor in Palantir (8.6 per cent), Microsoft (7.8 per cent), Amazon.com (6.6 per cent), Alphabet (6.6 per cent) and IBM (8.6 per cent).
Blackrock is the second largest institutional investor in Palantir (8.6 per cent), Microsoft (7.8 per cent), Amazon.com (6.6 per cent), Alphabet (6.6 per cent) and IBM (8.6 per cent).
Robert S. Kapito (6) 211,431 * 9,032 220,463
Laurence D. Fink 290,327 * 13,359 303,686
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BlackRock, Inc. | 7.15% | 3,335,501 shares | Feb 27, 2026; Vanguard Capital Management, LLC | 3.84% | Aug 31, 2026; FMR LLC | 3.05% | Jan 29, 2026; Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management 1.15% Mar 31, 2026 [fetch-tool rendering; ADR listing]
BlackRock, Inc. | 9.52% | 269,568,294 | Jul 31, 2026
Asset management firms – including Blackrock ($68 million), Vanguard ($546 million) and Allianz's asset management subsidiary PIMCO ($960 million) – were among at least 400 investors from 36 countries who purchased them.
Laurence D. Fink is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock. ... He and seven partners founded BlackRock in 1988
Rob Kapito is President and a Director of BlackRock ... Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Mr. Kapito was a Vice President in the Mortgage Products Group at The First Boston Corporation.
is a leading publicly traded investment management firm with $14.0 trillion of assets under management (“AUM”) at December 31, 2025.
$14 trillion in AUM following record $698 billion of full year net inflows, including $342 billion in the fourth quarter
Total revenue $ 24,216 $ 20,407
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