BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund, Inc.

NYSE:FRA Stock Report

Market Cap: US$458.0m

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund Past Earnings Performance

Past criteria checks 2/6

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund has been growing earnings at an average annual rate of 9%, while the Capital Markets industry saw earnings growing at 9.7% annually. Revenues have been declining at an average rate of 2.4% per year. BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund's return on equity is 13.4%, and it has net margins of 110.3%.

Key information

9.0%

Earnings growth rate

13.1%

EPS growth rate

Capital Markets Industry Growth10.3%
Revenue growth rate-2.4%
Return on equity13.4%
Net Margin110.3%
Last Earnings Update31 Dec 2023

Recent past performance updates

No updates

Recent updates

FRA: A Good Way To Hedge Your 2024 Interest Rate Risk

Dec 20

FRA: Continuing To Benefit From Higher Rates

Oct 15

FRA: A Good 11%-Yielding CEF To Buy For Income Today

Aug 16

FRA: Another Distribution Increase

Jun 05

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund declares $0.0804 dividend

Jan 06

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund goes ex-dividend on Monday

Nov 11

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund raises monthly dividend by 20.5% to $0.0804/share

Oct 06

FRA: Fully Covered 6.59% Distribution, Protection From Rising Rates

Aug 31

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund declares $0.0667 dividend

Aug 05

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund declares $0.0667 dividend

Jul 05

FRA: Deeply Discounted

May 13

FRA: 5.8% Distribution Yield, Floating Rate Investments

Jan 20

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund: Don't Fear Higher Interest Rates, Embrace Them

Oct 17

FRA: Floating Rate Fund Worth Taking A Look At

Jul 05

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund declares $0.0667 dividend

May 07

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund declares $0.0667 dividend

Feb 04

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund declares $0.0667 dividend

Dec 21

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund declares $0.0788 dividend

Nov 03

Revenue & Expenses Breakdown
Beta

How BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund makes and spends money. Based on latest reported earnings, on an LTM basis.


Earnings and Revenue History

NYSE:FRA Revenue, expenses and earnings (USD Millions)
DateRevenueEarningsG+A ExpensesR&D Expenses
31 Dec 23576350
30 Sep 23546250
30 Jun 23516150
31 Mar 23452650
31 Dec 2240-950
30 Sep 2236-1850
30 Jun 2232-2660
31 Mar 2231160
31 Dec 21312960
30 Jun 219676160
31 Mar 219745160
31 Dec 209815160
31 Dec 19394660
31 Aug 19441560
31 May 19441460
28 Feb 19441470
30 Nov 18432070
31 Aug 18422770
31 May 18402670
28 Feb 18392470
30 Nov 17393070
31 Aug 17393670
31 May 17395370
28 Feb 17387070
30 Nov 16384760
31 Aug 16372360
31 May 1637560
29 Feb 1637-1460
30 Nov 1538-170
31 Aug 15391370
31 May 15401570
28 Feb 15401770
30 Nov 14412670
31 Aug 14413470
31 May 14423860
28 Feb 14434260
30 Nov 13434560
31 Aug 13434860
31 May 13384550

Quality Earnings: FRA has a large one-off gain of $18.4M impacting its last 12 months of financial results to 31st December, 2023.

Growing Profit Margin: FRA became profitable in the past.


Free Cash Flow vs Earnings Analysis


Past Earnings Growth Analysis

Earnings Trend: FRA's earnings have grown by 9% per year over the past 5 years.

Accelerating Growth: FRA has become profitable in the last year, making the earnings growth rate difficult to compare to its 5-year average.

Earnings vs Industry: FRA has become profitable in the last year, making it difficult to compare its past year earnings growth to the Capital Markets industry (3.3%).


Return on Equity

High ROE: FRA's Return on Equity (13.4%) is considered low.


Return on Assets


Return on Capital Employed

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