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BRNA Blackrock North American Income Trust Plc

183.50
0.00 (0.00%)
19 Apr 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Blackrock North American Income Trust Plc LSE:BRNA London Ordinary Share GB00B7W0XJ61 ORD 1P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.00 0.00% 183.50 181.00 183.00 0.00 01:00:00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
0 0 N/A 0

BlackRock North Amer Portfolio Update

18/05/2017 4:56pm

UK Regulatory


 
TIDMBRNA 
 
BLACKROCK NORTH AMERICAN INCOME TRUST plc (LEI: 549300WWOCXSC241W468) 
All information is at 30 April 2017 and unaudited. 
 
Performance at month end with net income reinvested 
 
                               One    Three       Six      One     Three     Since 
                             Month   Months    Months     Year     Years   Launch* 
 
Net asset value              -2.8%     0.7%      6.5%    32.3%     64.7%     96.2% 
 
Share price                  -0.9%    -2.5%      2.9%    32.5%     60.2%     83.8% 
 
Russell 1000 Value Index     -3.5%    -0.5%      5.4%    32.0%     65.6%    120.0% 
 
 
Source: BlackRock 
 
*Launched on 24 October 2012. 
 
 
At month end 
 
Net asset value - capital only:                                                   165.25p 
 
Net asset value - cum income:                                                     166.57p 
 
 
Share price:                                                                      158.00p 
 
 
Discount to cum income NAV:                                                          5.1% 
 
Net yield*:                                                                          3.0% 
 
 
Total assets including current year revenue:                                      GBP114.8m 
 
 
Gearing:                                                                              Nil 
 
 
Options overwrite:                                                                 17.18% 
 
Ordinary shares in issue**:                                                    68,949,044 
 
Ongoing charges***:                                                                 1.04% 
 
 
* Based on dividends of 1.20p per share declared on 4 May 2016, 3 August 2016, 
3 November 2016 and 21 February 2017. 
** Excluding 31,412,261 ordinary shares held in treasury. 
*** Ongoing charges represent the management fee and all other operating 
expenses excluding interest as a % of average shareholders' funds for the year 
ended 31 October 2016. 
 
Benchmark 
 
Sector Analysis                                                Total Assets (%) 
 
Financials                                                                 26.8 
 
Health Care                                                                14.5 
 
Industrials                                                                10.9 
 
Energy                                                                     10.6 
 
Information Technology                                                      9.9 
 
Consumer Staples                                                            6.3 
 
Consumer Discretionary                                                      5.6 
 
Utilities                                                                   4.9 
 
Materials                                                                   3.7 
 
Telecommunication Services                                                  2.1 
 
Net current assets                                                          4.7 
 
                                                                          ----- 
 
                                                                          100.0 
 
                                                                           ==== 
 
 
 
Country Analysis                                               Total Assets (%) 
 
USA                                                                        84.1 
 
United Kingdom                                                              2.8 
 
Canada                                                                      2.4 
 
France                                                                      2.2 
 
Netherlands                                                                 2.2 
 
Ireland                                                                     0.7 
 
South Korea                                                                 0.5 
 
China                                                                       0.4 
 
Net current assets                                                          4.7 
 
                                                                          ----- 
 
                                                                        100.0 
 
                                                                          ===== 
 
 
 
Ten Largest Investments 
 
Company                         Country of Risk            Total Assets (%) 
 
JPMorgan Chase                        USA                        4.1 
 
Bank of America                       USA                        3.7 
 
Pfizer                                USA                        3.5 
 
Citigroup                             USA                        3.2 
 
Dow Chemical                          USA                        2.9 
 
Wells Fargo                           USA                        2.7 
 
Oracle                                USA                        2.4 
 
General Electric                      USA                        2.4 
 
Microsoft                             USA                        2.3 
 
Anthem                                USA                        2.3 
 
Bob Shearer and Tony DeSpirito, representing the Investment Manager, noted: 
 
Performance 
 
For the one month period ended 30 April 2017 the Company's NAV decreased by 
2.8% and the share price fell by 0.9%, whilst the Company's benchmark, the 
Russell 1000 Value Index, fell by 3.5% (all performance figures are in sterling 
terms). 
 
The largest contributor to relative performance during the month was stock 
selection in the energy sector.  Notably, the portfolio's quality orientation 
and exposure to less commodity sensitive operators within the sector proved to 
be beneficial as crude oil prices declined during the month.  Stock selection 
in consumer discretionary also added to relative returns, led by portfolio 
holdings within the media and specialty retail industries.  Lastly, stock 
selection in the health care, information technology and consumer staples 
sectors added to relative returns during the month. 
 
The largest detractor from relative performance was stock selection in the 
utilities sector.  Other modest detractors included an underweight to real 
estate and stock selection in telecommunication services during the period. 
 
Transactions/Options 
 
Transactions: Notable portfolio transactions during the month included exiting 
our position in E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and utilizing the proceeds 
to increase our position in The Dow Chemical Company.  We also initiated a new 
position in Cardinal Health, Inc. 
 
Options:  As of April 30, 2017, the Company's options exposure was 17.18% and 
the delta of the options was 87.21. 
 
Positioning 
 
As of the period end, our largest overweight positions relative to the 
benchmark were in the health care, consumer discretionary, materials and 
industrials sectors.  The Company was approximately equal-weight in the 
financials sector, and was underweight to the real estate, consumer staples, 
utilities, telecommunication services, energy and information technology 
sectors. 
 
18 May 2017 
 
Latest information is available by typing blackrock.co.uk/brna on the internet, 
"BLRKINDEX" on Reuters, "BLRK" on Bloomberg or "8800" on Topic 3 (ICV 
terminal).  Neither the contents of the Manager's website nor the contents of 
any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Manager's website (or any other 
website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement. 
 
 
 
END 
 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

May 18, 2017 11:56 ET (15:56 GMT)

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