Company: BSTZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049659
Chunk: 9

Company: BlackRock Science & Technology Term Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 9
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 appreciation. The Trust seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing in common stocks that pay dividends and have the potential for capital appreciation and by utilizing an option writing strategy to enhance distributions to its shareholders. The Trust invests, under normal market conditions, at 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