BlackRock Income Trust, Inc. (BKT) furnished its certified shareholder report on 12/31/2025 via Form N-CSR covering the fiscal year ended 12/31/2025. The report includes audited financial schedules, portfolio holdings, leverage metrics, distribution composition tables and supplemental shareholder disclosures.
The filing discloses each fund’s managed distribution plan with monthly fixed payouts (BKT monthly distribution $0.088200; annualized $1.058400 and a stated current distribution rate on closing price of 9.59% as of 12/31/2025), and shows fund-level leverage (BKT 19% as of 12/31/2025). The report also provides Portfolio Composition, Credit Quality allocations, performance tables, and tax distribution guidance (Form 1099-DIV provided annually).
Karpus Management, Inc., doing business as Karpus Investment Management, filed a Schedule 13G reporting a passive ownership stake in BlackRock Income Trust. Karpus reports beneficial ownership of 1,861,660 common shares, representing 5.75% of the outstanding class as of the reported date.
Karpus, a New York investment adviser, has sole voting and sole dispositive power over all reported shares, held in accounts it manages. The firm certifies the position was acquired and is held in the ordinary course of business and not for the purpose of changing or influencing control of BlackRock Income Trust.
BlackRock Income Trust, Inc. (BKT) portfolio manager Nicholas Andrew Kramvis reported several transactions on January 30, 2026. He exercised 2,044.9171 phantom shares into the same number of common shares at a price of $0.00 per share, then disposed of those 2,044.9171 common shares at $11.10 per share, leaving no directly held common stock.
On the same date, he was credited with a new award of 1,818.6937 phantom shares at a reference price of $11.10, bringing his directly held phantom share balance to 4,089.8342. The filing explains that each phantom share is economically equivalent to one share of common stock but is payable in cash, subject to vesting in equal installments over three years.
BlackRock Income Trust portfolio manager Matthew Kraeger reported several compensation-related transactions on January 30, 2026. He received 4,515.2027 phantom shares, which are economically equivalent to common stock and become payable in cash as they vest over three years.
On the same date, previously granted phantom shares from 2023, 2024, and 2025 awards were partially converted into common stock and then 4,081.3417 common shares were sold at $11.10 per share. Following these transactions, he directly owned 560 common shares of BlackRock Income Trust.
BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund, Inc. (DSU) and affiliated BlackRock closed-end funds adopted a prospectus supplement effective December 1, 2025 that replaces the Prospectus section on valuation for Options, Futures, Swaps and Other Derivatives. The supplement specifies market-quotation rules for exchange-traded equity options, fallbacks to bid/ask or prior-day prices, model-based valuation for customized or OTC instruments, and daily valuation sources for futures, swaps and other derivatives.
BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund, Inc. (DSU) and affiliated BlackRock closed-end funds adopted a prospectus supplement effective December 1, 2025 that replaces the Prospectus section on valuation for Options, Futures, Swaps and Other Derivatives. The supplement specifies market-quotation rules for exchange-traded equity options, fallbacks to bid/ask or prior-day prices, model-based valuation for customized or OTC instruments, and daily valuation sources for futures, swaps and other derivatives.
BlackRock Income Trust (BKT) director reported a Form 4 transaction related to the fund’s rights offering. On 10/09/2025, the reporting person sold 1,840 transferable subscription rights at $0.0901 per right, which were tied to an underlying 613 common shares. Following the sale, 0 derivative securities were beneficially owned.
As context, the fund announced a pro rata rights offering permitting Record Date Shareholders (as of 09/29/2025) to subscribe for up to 8,097,238 common shares. Holders received one right per share and may purchase one new share for every three rights. The estimated subscription price is $10.70, with rights stated to expire on 10/20/2025.
BlackRock Income Trust, Inc. filed Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to its Form N-2 registration statement under Rule 462(d) solely to add and update exhibits. The amendment becomes effective immediately upon filing and does not change any other part of the existing registration statement.
The filing lists updated contractual, advisory, administrative and fund-of-funds agreements by reference, and newly files items such as the form of subscription certificate, notice of guaranteed delivery, subscription and information agent agreements, a legal opinion, and final filing fee tables. It also discloses estimated offering-related expenses totaling $194,960, including a $30,135 registration fee, $130,000 of legal fees and other listing, accounting and FINRA charges.
BlackRock Income Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BKT) plans a transferable rights offering for shareholders of record as of September 29, 2025. Holders of these rights will be able to subscribe for additional common shares at a discount to the market price, with the goal of increasing the Fund’s assets to pursue its income and capital preservation objective.
The Board and BlackRock Advisors, LLC state that all expenses of the offering will be paid by the Adviser, not by the Fund or its shareholders. The Fund expects to maintain its current distribution level, and shares issued in the offering will be eligible for the monthly distribution expected in November 2025, but not for the October 2025 distribution. The Fund’s existing at-the-market share offering will be terminated before this rights offering begins.