Blue Owl Capital Inc. (NYSE:OWL) Shares Purchased by Quantbot Technologies LP

Quantbot Technologies LP increased its position in shares of Blue Owl Capital Inc. (NYSE:OWL - Free Report) by 9.1% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 482,517 shares of the company's stock after acquiring an additional 40,230 shares during the quarter. Quantbot Technologies LP's holdings in Blue Owl Capital were worth $11,223,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the company. FMR LLC boosted its holdings in Blue Owl Capital by 29.9% in the 3rd quarter. FMR LLC now owns 35,324,089 shares of the company's stock valued at $683,874,000 after purchasing an additional 8,138,475 shares during the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted its position in Blue Owl Capital by 17.9% in the third quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 9,030,397 shares of the company's stock valued at $174,829,000 after buying an additional 1,372,865 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its position in shares of Blue Owl Capital by 14.2% during the 3rd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 8,152,157 shares of the company's stock worth $157,870,000 after purchasing an additional 1,016,505 shares during the period. Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. acquired a new stake in Blue Owl Capital in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $23,513,000. Finally, HighTower Advisors LLC raised its position in Blue Owl Capital by 29.1% in the third quarter. HighTower Advisors LLC now owns 3,599,852 shares of the company's stock valued at $69,690,000 after purchasing an additional 811,334 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 35.85% of the company's stock.

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Blue Owl Capital Price Performance

Shares of Blue Owl Capital stock traded down $0.60 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $21.05. 5,607,526 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 5,943,192. The firm's 50-day moving average price is $22.64 and its 200 day moving average price is $22.30. The stock has a market cap of $32.37 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 123.83, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.23 and a beta of 1.19. Blue Owl Capital Inc. has a 12-month low of $15.18 and a 12-month high of $26.73.

Blue Owl Capital (NYSE:OWL - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 6th. The company reported $0.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.21. Blue Owl Capital had a return on equity of 20.82% and a net margin of 4.77%. As a group, research analysts forecast that Blue Owl Capital Inc. will post 0.92 earnings per share for the current year.

Blue Owl Capital Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, February 28th. Investors of record on Wednesday, February 19th were issued a $0.18 dividend. This represents a $0.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.42%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, February 19th. Blue Owl Capital's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 423.53%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have recently weighed in on OWL shares. Citigroup reaffirmed a "buy" rating and issued a $30.00 price objective on shares of Blue Owl Capital in a research note on Thursday, January 23rd. JMP Securities reaffirmed a "market outperform" rating and issued a $32.00 target price (up from $30.00) on shares of Blue Owl Capital in a research report on Friday, February 7th. TD Cowen raised shares of Blue Owl Capital from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating and increased their price target for the stock from $26.00 to $28.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 16th. Piper Sandler lifted their price objective on shares of Blue Owl Capital from $25.00 to $27.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a report on Monday, December 23rd. Finally, Oppenheimer upped their target price on shares of Blue Owl Capital from $24.00 to $28.00 and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a research note on Thursday, December 12th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $26.33.

Blue Owl Capital Profile

Blue Owl Capital Inc operates as an asset manager in the United States. The company offers permanent capital base solutions that enables it to offer holistic framework of capital solutions to middle market companies, large alternative asset managers, and corporate real estate owners and tenants. It also provides direct lending products that offer private credit products comprising diversified, technology, first lien, and opportunistic lending to middle-market companies; liquid credit; GP strategic capital products, which offers capital solutions, including GP minority stakes, GP debt financing, and professional sports minority stakes; and real estate products that focuses on acquiring triple net lease real estate by investment grade or creditworthy tenants.