Summary
BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III, 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
- 3.28%
- Fund size
- $1.31B
- Dividend yield
- 6.81%
- Running since
- 1992
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $1.31B under management.
- It has been running since 1992.
What to watch
- Costs of 3.28% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.27%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 38% 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
- +0.2%
- 3 months
- -8.2%
- This year
- -9.8%
- 1 year
- -11%
- 3 years
- +4.9%
- 5 years
- -31%
- 10 years
- -33%
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $328
- Over 20 years
- $12,468
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $328 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 $12,468.
How has it done?
Losing value- A year on average, 10 years
- -3.9%
- Deepest drop
- -38%
- Yearly volatility
- 11%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 3.9%. Deepest drop in these years: 38% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 6.81%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.06
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.67 per share, which is 6.81% of today's price. The last payment was $0.06 on Oct 15, 2026.