NYSE:BGTBlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust Stock Price, Forecast & News

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust's stock was trading at $11.07 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BGT stock has decreased by 1.0% and is now trading at $10.96. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust announced a monthly dividend on Wednesday, July 1st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, July 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.076 per share on Friday, July 31st. This represents a $0.91 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 8.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, July 14th. View BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust's dividend history.

News stories about BGT stock have trended negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust earned a news impact score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the investment management company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news about BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust.

Some companies that are related to BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust include 1ST TR SR FR 20/COM (FIV), Aberdeen Income Credit Strategies Fund (ACP), Aberdeen International (AABVF), Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (AOD), AllianceBernstein Natnl Muncpl Incm Fnd. (AFB), ALLIANZGI CNV &/COM (CBH), Allianzgi Convertible & Income Fund (NCV), Allianzgi Convertible & Income Fund II (NCZ), Allianzgi NFJ Dividend int & Prm Stgy Fd (NFJ), Alpine Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (AGD), Apollo Tactical Income Fund (AIF), Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund (ARDC), BLACKROCK 2022/COM (BGIO), Blackrock Coporate High Yield Fund (HYT) and Blackrock Credit Allocation Income Trust (BTZ). View all competitors.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust investors own include Philip Morris International (PM), Blackstone Group (BX), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), PIMCO Corporate&Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), AT&T (T), Ares Capital (ARCC), Blackrock Taxable Municipal Bond Trust (BBN), Blackrock Utlts Infra&Pwr Oprtnt Trst (BUI), Citigroup (C) and Consolidated Edison (ED).

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BGT."

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.00%). Company insiders that own BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust stock include Henry Gabbay and May Peter. View institutional ownership trends for BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust.

BGT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Envestnet Asset Management Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust.

Shares of BGT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of BGT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.96.

The official website for BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust is www.blackrock.com.

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust's mailing address is 100 Bellevue Pkwy, WILMINGTON, DE 19809-3700, United States. The investment management company can be reached via phone at 302-797-2000.