Flores Lorenzo reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust director Lorenzo Flores received a grant of 651.56 Performance Rights tied to the trust’s common stock. The rights were accrued under the BlackRock Deferred Compensation Plan and are settled 100% in cash, each based on the cash value of one BDJ share, bringing his total Performance Rights holdings to 13,549.16. This is a compensation award, not an open-market trade in BDJ shares.
Harris Stayce D. reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust director Harris Stayce D. received a grant of 555.94 Performance Rights linked to the trust’s common stock. These rights were accrued under the BlackRock Deferred Compensation Plan and reference a value of $8.75 per right.
Each Performance Right is convertible into the cash value of one share of BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust and is to be settled 100% in cash at a deferral period chosen by the director. Following this award, the director holds 13,176.04 Performance Rights in total.
Steinmetz Arthur Philip reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust director Arthur Philip Steinmetz received a grant of 781.81 Performance Rights. The rights were accrued under the BlackRock Deferred Compensation Plan and each right is convertible into the cash value of one share of BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust.
The Performance Rights will be settled 100% in cash at a deferral period chosen by Steinmetz. Following this grant, he holds a total of 8,585.89 Performance Rights directly, providing additional cash-settled, share-linked compensation rather than an open-market stock purchase.
HUBBARD ROBERT GLENN reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust director Robert Glenn Hubbard received a grant of performance rights as deferred compensation. On April 1, 2026, he was awarded 788.1600 performance rights at a reference value of $8.7500 per right, each tied to the value of one common share.
These performance rights accrue under the BlackRock Deferred Compensation Plan and are 100% cash-settled at a deferral date he has chosen, so they do not represent current ownership of common shares. Following this award, his reported balance of performance rights increased to 97,850.7700.
Holloman James Phillip reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust director James Phillip Holloman received a grant of 598.1600 Performance Rights tied to the trust’s common stock. The rights were accrued under the BlackRock Deferred Compensation Plan and are convertible into the cash value of one share of the trust per right.
The Performance Rights will be settled 100% in cash at the deferral period chosen by Holloman, rather than in stock. Following this award, he holds a total of 14,065.5900 Performance Rights, reflecting deferred, cash-settled compensation linked to the trust’s share value.
KESTER W CARL reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust director Carl W. Kester received a compensation grant of Performance Rights, not a market purchase of shares. On this Form 4, he was awarded 75.7 Performance Rights at $8.75 each, bringing his total Performance Rights holdings to 46,985.39.
The rights were accrued under the BlackRock Deferred Compensation Plan. Each Performance Right is tied to the cash value of one common share of BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust and will be settled 100% in cash at the deferral period chosen by Kester, rather than in actual shares.
BDJ filed a Form N-CEN annual report for registered investment companies that discloses securities lending activity and transaction totals. The report lists the monthly average value of portfolio securities on loan as 795,407000 and net income from securities lending as 1,940. It reports aggregate brokerage commissions paid of 2,769,549.84 and principal transaction entries including a counterparty row with total purchases and sales of 698,007,767.18.
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust (BDJ) files its certified shareholder report and supplemental information for the fiscal period ended 12/31/2025, presenting distribution, portfolio and performance detail.
BDJ paid a monthly distribution of $0.061900 (annualized $0.742800), implying a distribution rate of 7.84% on the closing market price of $9.48. BDJ reported one‑year returns of 18.75% at NAV and 25.91% at market price. At period end, 50.4% of underlying equities were overwritten with call options, typically written about 4.5% out of the money.
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust portfolio manager Kyle McClements reported a mix of phantom share awards, conversions, and a stock sale. On January 30, 2026, he was awarded 3,596.8783 phantom shares, each economically equivalent to one common share and payable in cash after vesting over three years.
That same day, previously granted phantom shares were exercised into 3,377.1047 common shares, which were then sold at $9.61 per share. Following these transactions, McClements directly held 18,711.9135 common shares and maintained a remaining phantom share balance as shown in the filing tables.
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust portfolio manager Zhao David reported routine compensation-related transactions in common stock and phantom shares. On January 30, 2026, he exercised phantom share awards into 5,533.5762 shares of common stock and then disposed of the same amount at $9.61 per share, leaving no directly held common stock.
On the same date, he was granted 4,877.7315 phantom shares, which are cash-settled units economically equivalent to common stock and subject to vesting over three years. Additional phantom share movements reflect vesting and conversion from prior grants made in 2023, 2024, and 2025.