BlackRock Utilities, Infrastructure & Power Opportunities Trust (BUI)

• Market cap: $534M
• 1 day: 0.72%
• 5 days: 3.04%
• 1 month: 3.71%
• 3 months: 0.17%
• 6 months: 4.03%
• Year to date: 2.99%
• 1 year: 12.73%
• 5 years: 4.49%
• 10 years: 14.63%

About: BlackRock Utility Infrastructure & Power Opportunities Trust is a closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide total return through a combination of current income, current gains, and long-term capital appreciation. The Trust seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its total assets in equity securities issued by companies that are engaged in the Utilities, Infrastructure and Power Opportunities business segments anywhere in the world and by employing a strategy of writing (selling) call and put options.

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

40% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 7 | Existing positions closed: 5

28% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 23 | Existing positions reduced: 18

2% more funds holding

Funds holding: 61 [Q2] → 62 (+1) [Q3]

3.28% less ownership

Funds ownership: 18.51% [Q2] → 15.23% (-3.28%) [Q3]

8% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $92.2M [Q2] → $85M (-$7.18M) [Q3]