Summary
BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund, Inc. is a mutual fund run by BlackRock. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day.
- Yearly costs
- 1.72%
- Fund size
- $600.6M
- Dividend yield
- 13.88%
- Running since
- 1998
What speaks for it
- It has been running since 1998.
What to watch
- Costs of 1.72% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.27%).
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -4.1%
- 3 months
- -9.2%
- This year
- -16%
- 1 year
- -17%
- 3 years
- -14%
- 5 years
- -26%
- 10 years
- -21%
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $172
- Over 20 years
- $7,464
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $172 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $7,464.
How has it done?
Losing value- A year on average, 10 years
- -2.4%
- Deepest drop
- -29%
- Yearly volatility
- 8.8%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 2.4%. Deepest drop in these years: 29% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 13.88%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.10
Over the last 12 months it paid $1.18 per share, which is 13.88% of today's price. The last payment was $0.10 on Oct 15, 2026.