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BLACKLINE, INC.

TechnologyPrepackaged Software
Ticker BLWOODLAND HILLS, CAFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $4.57Diluted shares 69.2M

BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) operates as a leading provider of cloud-based financial software solutions designed to modernize and automate the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. The company's website is located at www.blackline.com. From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$700.43M
+7.2% year over year
Last 12 mo $732.45M
3.65%
+0.8 percentage points
Last 12 mo 4.32%
$27.26M
−83.8% year over year
Last 12 mo $27.75M
11.18%
−25.4 percentage points
Last 12 mo 11.00%
Cash & financing
$169.57M
−11.1% year over year
Last 12 mo $181.77M
$134.90M
−17.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $149.12M
2.70
Was 2.00× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 2.12
65.9M
−10.3% year over year
Last 12 mo 69.2M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What BLACKLINE, INC. does

In the company’s own words

BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) operates as a leading provider of cloud-based financial software solutions designed to modernize and automate the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. The company's website is located at www.blackline.com.

Founded in 2001, BlackLine has pioneered digital finance transformation through its comprehensive Studio360 Platform, which unifies financial data and processes across organizations. The platform serves as the primary point of interaction for accounting and finance professionals, integrating with leading enterprise resource planning systems including Workday, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Sage Intacct, and NetSuite, while also connecting to diverse financial data sources such as banks, point-of-sale systems, treasury, payroll, and procurement applications.

BlackLine's solution portfolio encompasses two primary product categories: record-to-report and invoice-to-cash offerings. Record-to-report solutions include account reconciliations, transaction matching, journal entry management, consolidation, compliance, and intercompany transaction processing. Invoice-to-cash solutions address cash application, credit and risk management, collections management, and electronic invoicing and payments. The company augments its software with comprehensive implementation, optimization, training, and customer success services.

In September 2025, BlackLine launched Verity, a suite of artificial intelligence capabilities providing embedded and auditable AI throughout its platform. Subsequently, in December 2025, the company acquired WiseLayer, a provider of AI-powered agents for automating complex finance and accounting processes, to accelerate its AI roadmap and strengthen competitive positioning.

BlackLine serves approximately 4,394 customers across multinational corporations, large enterprises, mid-size companies, and public sector entities spanning diverse industries. The company employs approximately 1,850 people worldwide and maintains global support operations across Australia, England, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Romania, and the United States. The company distributes its solutions through a direct sales force leveraging relationships with technology vendors, professional services firms, and business process outsourcers. BlackLine's growth strategy focuses on continued product innovation, customer expansion across geographies and industries, deepening partner relationships, and extending ERP connectivity and cloud marketplace availability.

Company details
Sector
Technology
Industry
Prepackaged Software
Headquarters
WOODLAND HILLS, CA
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1666134
SIC
7372

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2016–2025 · USD
$-184.34M$65.69M$315.73M$565.76M$815.79M2016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns BLACKLINE, INC. — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

242
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$656.29M
held by funds, at market
39.1%
of shares held by funds
1
bond issues held by funds

Largest fund holders · BLACKLINE, INC.’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR · iShares Trust
0.07%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
0.02%of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
IWM · iShares Trust
0.04%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.02%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

BLACKLINE, INC.’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 1 issues of BLACKLINE, INC.’s debt, $88.26M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 1.00%, maturing 2029 to 2029.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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