Blackrock Vanguard. The Vanguard Group Inc. Vanguard is the largest shareholder of BlackRock.
As for The New York Times as of May 2021 BlackRock is the second-largest shareholder with 743 of the total shares just behind The Vanguard Group which owns the largest share 811. All are owned by the same small group of institutional shareholders. All are owned by the same small group of institutional shareholders.
Vanguard is the largest shareholder of BlackRock.
Valley Forge PA-based Vanguard Group is currently the largest shareholder in Marathon Digital and Riot Blockchain with BlackRock leading behind after the disclosure of the recent filing. BlackRock and Vanguard hold large interests in pivotal companies and Vanguard holds a large share of BlackRock. Vanguard is privately owned and is linked to many of the oldest richest families including the Rothschilds the Orsini family the American Bush family the British Royal family the DuPont family the Morgans Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. 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.