Company: BDJ
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049575
Chunk: 178

Company: BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 178
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 Total returns based on market price, which can be significantly greater or less than the net asset value, may result in substantially different returns. Where applicable, excludes the effects ofany sales charges and assumes the reinvestment of distributions at actual reinvestment prices. |

Shareholder Update 211

Shareholder Update (unaudited) (continued)

Financial Highlights The financial highlights table is intended to help the shareholder to understand BUI ’ s financial performance for the periods presented. Certain information reflects financial results for a single common share of BUI.

|                                                    |        BUI 
 Year Ended | Year Ended | Year Ended | Year Ended | Year Ended |
|:---------------------------------------------------|-----------:|-----------:|-----------:|-----------:|-----------:|
|                                                    |   12/31/19 |   12/31/18 |   12/31/17 |   12/31/16 |   12/31/15 |
| Net asset value, beginning of year                 |     $18.77 |     $21.12 |     $19.42 |     $19.50 |     $22.47 |
| Net investment income(a)                           |       0.37 |       0.49 |       0.56 |       0.56 |       0.47 |
| Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)            |       4.33 |      -1.39 |       2.59 |       0.81 |      -1.99 |
| Net increase (decrease) from investment operations |       4.70 |      -0.90 |       3.15 |       1.37 |      -1.52 |
| Distributions(b)                                   |            |            |            |            |            |
| From net investment income                         |      -0.24 |   -0.63)(c |      -0.47 |      -0.49 |      -0.42 |
| From net realized gain                             |      -1.06 |   -0.81)(c |      -0.98 |      -0.53 |      -0.54 |
| Return of capital                                  |      -0.15 |      -0.01 |          — |      -0.43 |      -0.49 |
| Total distributions                                |      -1.45 |      -1.45 |      -1.45 |      -1.45 |      -