Saturday, April 25, 2026

2026-04-24 Portfolio Update – APO, ARES, BN, BX, OWL

Put in $2000, then purchased:

  • $300 for APO

  • $500 for ARES

  • $300 for BN

  • $300 for BX

  • $863.19 for OWL

I thought the alternative asset managers were bottomed and would start coming back a week ago, but I was wrong. My portfolio took a pretty big hit, and my IRR is now trailing a hypothetical SPY-only portfolio by about 2 basis points.

Blackstone (BX) earnings were strong with fee-related earnings grew 23% in 2026 Q1, distributable earnings per share grew 25% in 2026 Q1 and LTM distributable earnings per share grew 23%. Total AUM increased 12%, and fee-earning AUM increased 9% year-over-year. The focus was BCRED - Blackstone Private Credit Fund (2021), which unfortunately had a net outflow of $1.4 billion resulting in AUM of about $94 billion. It's mostly because of the negative dissemination of private credits. Overall though, it is a company growing its earnings at double digits.

What it tells about Blue Owl is that it likely will experience very muted AUM growth in the upcoming earnings announcement on 04/30. I expected the DE per share growth will be at least high single digit. It's trading at roughly P/DE 10, super cheap with its close 10% dividend yield.

I am maintaining my view that the alternative asset managers were misunderstood, and the big returns will come at these trading prices. I am buying more.

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Recent and upcoming dividend distributions



Portfolio performance snapshot

Total return:



One-year return:



Portfolio IRR (calculation): 18.29%

Approximated IRR for an SPY-only portfolio: 18.31%


Individual holdings:



Breakdown by categories (real-time):


Total returns for individual holdings:


Last prices:


Portfolio holdings conviction

The convictions in the table below reflects my current opinions and will guide the future contribution of additional investment to existing holdings. Stocks not inside the table are stocks with subpar return on equity that will be very unlikely to receive more contributions from new money (there can be exceptions for very cheap stocks).



Stock

Conviction in long-term prospect

Valuation

Price

XYZ

weak

neutral

$71.63

PYPL

weak

undervalued

$50.48

META

moderate

neutral

$675.05

BRK.B

strong

neutral

$469.32

AMZN

strong

neutral

$263.99

PLTR

moderate

greatly overvalued

$143.09

OWL

strong

greatly undervalued

$9.18

APO

strong

undervalued

$124.26

ARES

strong

slightly undervalued

$115.23

BN

strong

slightly undervalued

$45.48

BAM

strong

slightly overvalued

$47.57

BX

strong

slightly undervalued

$121.65

MAIN

strong

neutral

$54.06

BABA

moderate

neutral

$135.82

NNN

moderate

neutral

$43.87

TSLA

moderate

neutral

$376.30

BIDU

moderate

neutral

$128.71

NVDA

moderate

slightly undervalued

$208.26

TSM

moderate

neutral

$402.46

HASI

moderate

neutral

$41.75

HHH

moderate

slightly undervalued

$64.07

UNH

moderate

neutral

$354.92

HOOD

moderate

overvalued

$84.71

MCD

moderate

neutral

$299.36


Conviction in long-term prospects means how much I believe a company would match or outperform the market (e.g. S&P 500) in the long run. Valuation matters so the conviction generally corresponds to the neutral rating of Valuation. It has the following ratings: weak, moderate, strong


Valuation: greatly overvalued, overvalued, slightly overvalued, neutral, slightly undervalued, undervalued, greatly undervalued

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