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Blackrock Floating Rate Income Trust Stock: price and insider trades · United States
No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest, by Harris Stayce D., was filed 30 Oct 2024.
Blackrock Floating Rate Income Trust: what insiders have been doing
Blackrock Floating Rate Income Trust, classified in the Finance & Banking sector, is a listed company. Its insiders report their share dealings to SEC (Form 4). From 22 October 2025 to 22 October 2026, the disclosure feed for Blackrock Floating Rate Income Trust logged 6 filings by 3 insiders.
No open-market purchase or sale appears among the filings, only grants, plan transactions and other operations. Because grants and exercises are largely decided by remuneration plans, they are not counted as purchases here.
For context, the typical company on the same exchange (median of 2,023 companies) published 41 filings over the same period, against 6 filings here. The full history, which starts in 2018, counts 3 purchases against no sales.
Insider buying of Blackrock Floating Rate Income Trust has been absent for the past year. Between a trade and the moment it shows up on SEC (Form 4), the median delay is 4 days. Section 16 rules allow two business days to file each Form 4.
In the same sector, recent insider purchases at BNP Paribas and ASR Nederland N.V. also feature in our signals. Source: insider filings from SEC (Form 4). Past trades are no guide to future returns.
Insider Decl.
41
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
€1,175
3 ops. · all time
Sell Volume
n/a
n/a
Since the insiders bought
- -9.0%Entry US$13.05 · Close at T+365 US$11.88
- +9.7%Entry US$11.99 · Close at T+365 US$13.15
Entry is the close on the day after publication, the first price a reader could act on. Prices in the listing currency. Past moves are not a forecast.
This score ranks the purchase within its own market. A position size is suggested only on the venues of the backtested strategy universe; elsewhere, signals stay on watch. Not investment advice.
Financial data
as of FY 2025FY ended December 2025 · cache
US$10.07
Analyst consensus
Income statement
RevenueUS$19.7M
Net incomeUS$19.4M39.9% margin
Valuation
PER (trailing)24.0x
P/Book0.9x
Beta0.49
Balance sheet & cash
Market capUS$300.2M
Total debtUS$71.4M
Free Cash Flow-US$23.5M
Debt / Equity22%
Profitability & ownership
ROE3.6%
ROA3.9%
% institutions36.4%
Last declaration on 3 February 2026
Declarations41 total
2,045.97 shares@ US$11.4561.3% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-035916:1
5,141.05 shares@ US$11.4568.9% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-035889:1
3,960.26 shares@ US$11.4546.8% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-035907:1
2,045.972 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-035916:0
3,960.263 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-035907:0
5,141.053 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-035889:0
1,808.22 shares@ US$12.7431.1% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-013630:1
3,518.25 shares@ US$12.7453.2% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-013634:1
1,007.96 shares@ US$12.7438.7% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-013590:1
1,007.962 sharesCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-013590:0
3,518.249 sharesCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-013634:0
1,808.222 sharesCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-013630:0
10 shares@ US$13.06100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-24-118914:0
Canonical exit: 27 Jan 2025 (T+90)
101.25 shares@ US$11.68100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000899243-23-003479:1
101.245 sharesCommon StockSEC:0000899243-23-003479:0
94.23 shares@ US$13.3956.1% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000899243-22-004295:1
94.226 sharesCommon StockSEC:0000899243-22-004295:0
88.81 shares@ US$12.06100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000899243-21-004281:1
4,876.65 shares@ US$12.0613.6% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000899243-21-004320:1
88.81 sharesCommon StockSEC:0000899243-21-004281:0
4,876.65 sharesCommon StockSEC:0000899243-21-004320:0
190.04 sharesCommon StockSEC:0000899243-20-034705:0
190.04 shares@ US$11.88100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000899243-20-034705:1
158.51 sharesCommon StockSEC:0000899243-20-034711:0
158.51 shares@ US$11.88100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000899243-20-034711:1
25 of 41 declarations
About Blackrock Floating Rate Income Trust
BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust (NYSE, United States) is a listed closed-end income fund managed by BlackRock, built to deliver high current income through exposure to floating-rate and variable-rate credit instruments. Launched in August 2004, BGT is a perpetual closed-end taxable bond fund, which means it operates as an exchange-listed investment vehicle rather than an operating company. For French-speaking investors in France, Belgium, or Switzerland, the key takeaway is that this is a credit-income strategy wrapped in a liquid listed structure, with income generation as the primary objective and capital preservation as a secondary goal.
The Trust invests primarily in floating and variable-rate securities issued by U.S. and non-U.S. borrowers, including a substantial allocation to senior secured floating-rate loans made to corporate and other business entities. That positioning is designed to reduce interest-rate duration risk while maintaining attractive income potential. BlackRock also notes that the fund may use leverage, and recent filings indicate the portfolio can employ derivatives such as forward contracts to hedge foreign-currency exposure and interest-rate futures to tactically adjust duration. In practical terms, BGT is aimed at investors who want a high-distribution fixed-income solution with floating-rate characteristics.
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From a competitive standpoint, the fund benefits from BlackRock’s scale, credit research platform, and long experience in listed closed-end products. BlackRock states that it has more than 35 years of experience managing closed-end products and, as of year-end 2025, advised a large family of exchange-listed active funds. That matters because BGT competes in a segment where manager reputation, credit selection, leverage management, and distribution discipline are central to investor outcomes. Its Morningstar classification sits in the Bank Loan category, aligning it with the broader leveraged-loan and floating-rate income universe.
BGT is traded on the NYSE in the United States under the ticker BGT. The fund is managed within BlackRock’s broader platform, whose headquarters are in New York, while the portfolio itself is globally invested across U.S. and non-U.S. issuers. This geographic mix gives the fund access to a wider set of credit opportunities, although U.S. floating-rate loans remain an important core exposure.
Recent public disclosures and fund materials from 2025-2026 highlight several notable points. BlackRock’s official pages showed net assets of roughly $341 million and managed assets above $400 million, with leverage around 17% and a monthly distribution policy still in place. The fund’s market price also traded at a modest discount to NAV, a common feature in closed-end funds. Overall, the recent data reinforce BGT’s profile as a yield-oriented NYSE-listed income vehicle backed by a large global asset manager in the United States.
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