Blackrock Vs Vanguard. With roughly only a quarter of followers Vanguard achieves higher average engagement compared to BlackRock suggesting its followers and occasional readers are far more engaged. 10 At Pfizer the ownership is reversed with Vanguard being the top investor and BlackRock the second-largest stockholder.
10 At Pfizer the ownership is reversed with Vanguard being the top investor and BlackRock the second-largest stockholder. In fairness it would be that Blackrock has a tax managed ETF in a niche where Vanguard does not. They manage close to 15 billion.
According to Simply Wall Street in February 2020 BlackRock and Vanguard were the two largest shareholders of GlaxoSmithKline at 7 and 35 of shares respectively.
IShares by Blackrock is a bigger company or say it has more market share about 40. Vanguard is more known for their broad market and all-in-one ETFs when compared with iShares. In turn they themselves are owned by shareholders and the most surprising thing is that they own each others stocks. They manage close to 15 billion.