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BlackRock hold everything. It doesn’t really mean anything to say that they hold a lot of shares in some particular company. You might as well have just written “GameStop is a publicly traded US company” and one would deduce that BlackRock owns a lot of shares in it.

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BlackRock had 13% of GameStop. That's more consistent with taking a real stake than just happening to own it along with a piece of everything else.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-blackrock-investment-game...

BlackRock owns a similar % of the entire market, so this isn't too surprising. BlackRock has about $9 trillion AUM, and the global stock market is worth around $100 trillion. (Not all of that $9 trillion is stocks, but BlackRock still owns a notable percentage of the total stock market.)

Linkedin is your friend. A lot of top people came from Blackrock. lol.

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