BlackRock Science and Technology Trust Common Shares of Beneficial Interest (BST)
FairStock Score: 45/100 — MIXED
Key Financials
| Current Price | $46.51 |
| Market Cap | $1.5B |
| P/E Ratio | 3.01 |
| ROE | —% |
| Dividend Yield | 6.45% |
| Sector | Financial Services |
AI Analysis
AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.
As a Buffett-and-Graham-minded investor, I start with business quality. But BST is not an operating business; it is a closed-end fund managed by BlackRock Advisors that invests in science and technology equities, directly and through derivatives such as options. That immediately limits many classic tests. Revenue growth, ROE, ROCE and debt-to-equity are not available in the provided data, and the Lynch category is 'none' because only zero years of filed results are available. At the 2026-10-13 close of $50.09, FairStock calculates a P/E of 3.24 and a Graham Number of $121.72, implying a 58.85% margin of safety. That looks cheap, but fund earnings can be driven by unrealized investment gains, so I cannot treat the P/E as a durable operating earnings yield. The 5.99% distribution yield is appealing if covered, yet Piotroski F-score of 1/9 and FairStock Score 45/100 signal weakness. Altman Z-score of 104.57 is not meaningful for a fund. The shares sit near the top of a $34.87–$52.32 52-week range. The global all-cap, dividend-and-growth mandate and BlackRock sponsorship are positives, but they do not replace the missing financials. Without NAV, premium/discount, expense, distribution coverage and portfolio data, I see a potentially cheap but hard-to-verify vehicle. Margin of safety is only as good as the numbers behind it.
In plain English: BlackRock Science and Technology Trust is a closed-end fund that invests in science and technology stocks around the world, sometimes using options. Its price is $50.09 as of 2026-10-13 and it pays a 5.99% yield, but many ordinary business measures are missing because it is a fund. The numbers show some signs of being cheap against its stated earnings, yet the overall scorecard is mixed and weak on one financial-health check.
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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash
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