Company: BDJ
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049575
Chunk: 9

Company: BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 9
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 least 80% of its total assets in dividend paying equities and may invest up to 20% of its total assets in equity securities of issuers that do not pay dividends. The Trust may invest directly in such securities or synthetically through the use of derivatives. No assurance can be given that the Trust’s investment objectives will be achieved. Trust Information

| Symbol on New York Stock Exchange                                                    
 Initial Offering Date                                                                
 Current Distribution Rate on Closing Market Price as of December 31, 2024 ($8.28)(a) |             BDJ 
 August 31, 2005 
           8.97% |
|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------:|
| Current Monthly Distribution per Common Share(b)                                     |       $0.061900 |
| Current Annualized Distribution per Common Share(b)                                  |       $0.742800 |

| (a) | Current distribution rate on closing market price is calculated by dividing the current annualized distribution per share by the closing market price. The current distribution rate mayconsist of income, net realized gains and/or a return of capital. Past performance is not an indication of future results. |
| (b) | The distribution rate is not constant and is subject to change. A portion of the distribution may be deemed a return of capital or net realized gain.                                                                                                                                                              |

Market Price and Net Asset Value Per Share Summary

|                      | 12/31/24 | 12/31/23 | Change |  High |   Low |
| Closing Market Price |    $8.28 |    $7.69 |  7.67% | $9.04 | $7.69 |
| Net Asset Value      |     9.02 |     8.82 |   2.27 |  9.58 |  8.68 |

GROWTH OF $10,000 INVESTMENT (a) Represents the Trust’s closing market price on the NYSE and reflects the reinvestment of dividends and/or distributions at actual reinvestment prices. (b) An index that measures the performance of the large-cap value segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower expected growth values.

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Trust Summary as of December 31, 2024 (continued) BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust (BDJ)

Performance Returns for the period ended December 31, 2024 were as follows:

|                                        | Average Annual