Summary
BlackRock Floating Rate Income 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
- 2.64%
- Fund size
- $390.7M
- Dividend yield
- 14.97%
- Running since
- 2003
What speaks for it
- It has been running since 2003.
What to watch
- Costs of 2.64% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.27%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 30% from its high.
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
- -5.5%
- 3 months
- -7.0%
- This year
- -15%
- 1 year
- -20%
- 3 years
- -16%
- 5 years
- -27%
- 10 years
- -27%
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $264
- Over 20 years
- $10,589
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $264 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 $10,589.
How has it done?
Losing value- A year on average, 10 years
- -3.1%
- Deepest drop
- -30%
- Yearly volatility
- 11%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 3.1%. Deepest drop in these years: 30% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 14.97%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.12
Over the last 12 months it paid $1.49 per share, which is 14.97% of today's price. The last payment was $0.12 on Oct 15, 2026.