Goldman Sachs analyst Alexander Blostein lowered his price target on BlackRock to $570 after its Q2 results, which highlighted a "challenging market backdrop" along with a deceleration in the company's organic fee growth to 4% from 7%. The analyst keeps his Buy rating on BlackRock however, stating that the slowdown in fees was likely "market driven" and does not reflect "company specific weaknesses", adding that BlackRock still has the "operating flexibility to deliver above trend operating income growth, while accelerating technology revenue growth". Blostein lowers his FY18 EPS forecast to $27.57 from $27.96 and FY19 to $30.81 from $31.64 to reflect lowers asset under management levels and lower ETF fee rates partially offset by stronger technology revenues and more accretion from stock buybacks.