BSTZ News and Press, BlackRock Science and Technology Trust II of Beneficial Interest From 07/09/23

2023-07-09 09:15:00 ET Summary BST yields 9.36% and BSTZ yields 11.09% - both pay monthly. Both funds have heavy tech exposure and use covered calls to generate income. Both funds have outperformed in 2023. One of them is selling at a 14% discount. After getting stomped ...

2023-05-22 18:57:42 ET Summary BlackRock's BSTZ fund currently trades at a -17% discount. It also pays 11% dividend while investors are waiting for share appreciation. This is a good fund with a lot of potential. The fund combines investing in private companies with writing co...

2023-05-12 17:35:49 ET Summary NBXG focuses, with a heavy emphasis, on tech-related investments that are related to connectivity, making it a fairly interesting tech play. As we've seen with most other growth investments, they had struggled throughout most of 2022, but results hav...

2023-05-10 10:51:57 ET Summary 16 out of 22 CEF sectors positive on price and 14 out of 22 sectors positive on NAV last week. BlackRock Inc. share repurchase update. Voluntary share repurchases show alignment between managers and shareholders. Author's note: This a...

2023-05-08 05:53:47 ET Summary BIGZ hasn't provided anything to be too excited about since its launch, as growth took a plunge shortly after it entered the market. The fund's discount remains attractive if one is looking for a growth-oriented fund with a monthly distribution. ...

2023-04-20 12:12:30 ET Summary BMEZ launched right before Covid, riding up the boost when speculative growth took off. In 2022, the story was much different, and the fund struggled significantly. This fund is much riskier than its older sister fund, BME, but it also can provid...

2023-04-19 15:53:10 ET Summary Invesco CEF Income Composite ETF is a fund of closed-end funds. PCEF has outperformed its competitor Amplify High Income ETF in the last 10 years. However, historical return, distribution growth and holding discount are concerning. Bonus: A s...

Please replace the release dated April 11, 2023, with the following corrected version due to changes in the table, "Summary of share repurchase activity since Repurchase Program inception as of March 31, 2023" . The updated release reads: BLACKROCK CLOSED-END FUND SHARE REPURCHASE P...

2023-04-04 07:07:43 ET BlackRock Science and Technology Trust II ( NYSE: BSTZ ) declares $0.1613/share monthly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 10.67% Payable April 28; for shareholders of record April 14; ex-div April 13. See BSTZ Dividend Sco...

BlackRock Advisors, LLC (“BlackRock”) announced today name changes for five BlackRock closed-end funds with contingent limited terms (each, a “Trust”). The name changes are being made to increase awareness of the contingent limited term structure and the fact that ther...