Performance & Holdings
The UK’s smaller companies’ sector is vibrant and dynamic, an important source of employment and an engine of economic growth. Targeting long-term capital growth, this Trust seeks out the fastest growing, most innovative and exciting companies from the UK small cap universe.
The Company aims to achieve long-term capital growth for shareholders through investment mainly in smaller UK quoted companies.
Capital at risk. The value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and are not guaranteed. Investors may not get back the amount originally invested.
Annual performance to last quarter end (%) (GBP)
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Cumulative returns % (GBP) ()
Valuation statistics
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Latest dividends
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† Morningstar IT UK Smaller Companies
‡ Numis SC Plus AIM Ex Investment Companies PR GBP
The figures shown relate to past performance. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results and should not be the sole factor of consideration when selecting a product or strategy.
Price Chart:
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc. Ordinary share price and cum fair Net Asset Value (NAV). Pence Sterling. Source: Morningstar, updated daily for period selected. Time period can either be selected from options available, or on chart underneath (line is for illustration purposes only and does not reflect actual value). Price chart does not include ongoing charges, transaction fees or other expenses.
Net Asset Value (NAV) performance statistics are based on an NAV with income included with any income reinvested on the ex-dividend date, net of ongoing charges and any applicable performance fee.
Share price performance figures are calculated on a mid market basis in sterling terms with income reinvested on the ex-dividend date.
Net Asset Value (NAV) performance is not the same as share price performance, and shareholders may realise returns that are lower or higher than NAV performance.
Price/Trading Table:
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc. Pound Sterling, Source: Morningstar, updated every second day, excluding non-trading days.
Cumulative Returns:
Pound Sterling. BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc, benchmark and Morningstar category. Source: Morningstar, updated daily.
Valuation Statistics:
Pound Sterling. BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc. Source: Morningstar, updated daily.
Latest dividends:
Pound Sterling. BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc. Source: Morningstar, updated daily.
Annual Performance:
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc, benchmark (Numis Smaller Companies Plus AIM Ex. Investment Companies Index) and Morningstar Investment Trust UK Smaller Companies. Pound Sterling. Source: Morningstar, as at last quarter end.
BlackRock performance figures are calculated on a total return basis with net income reinvested including management & operating charges and any performance fees.
Net Asset Value (NAV) performance is not the same as share price performance, and shareholders may realise returns that are lower or higher than NAV performance.
Holdings breakdown
Sector and Country:
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc. Source: BlackRock, as at .
Last reported holdings (as at )
Last Reported Holdings:
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc. Source: BlackRock, as at . The specific companies identified and described above do not represent all of the companies purchased or sold, and no assumptions should be made that the companies identified and discussed were or will be profitable. Allocations are as of the date shown and do not necessarily represent current or future portfolio holdings.
Sector allocation (as at )
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Annual performance to last quarter end (%) (GBP)
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2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
Cumulative returns % (GBP) ()
Annual returns % (GBP)
† Morningstar IT UK Smaller Companies
‡ Numis SC Plus AIM Ex Investment Companies PR GBP
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results and should not be the sole factor of consideration when selecting a product or strategy.
Performance Chart:
Pound Sterling. Compares BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc, benchmark (Numis Smaller Companies Plus AIM Ex. Investment Companies Index) and Morningstar Investment Trust UK Smaller Companies Category at period selected. Source: Morningstar, update daily. Time period can either be selected from options available, or on chart underneath (line is for illustration purposes only and does not reflect actual value). Price chart and benchmark do not include ongoing charges, transaction fees or other expenses and are not available for actual investment.
BlackRock performance figures are calculated on a total return basis with net income reinvested including management & operating charges and any performance fees.
Net Asset Value (NAV) performance is not the same as share price performance, and shareholders may realise returns that are lower or higher than NAV performance.
Cumulative Returns:
Pound Sterling. BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc, benchmark and Morningstar category. Source: Morningstar, updated daily.
Annual Performance:
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc, benchmark (Numis Smaller Companies Plus AIM Ex. Investment Companies Index) and Morningstar Investment Trust UK Smaller Companies. Pound Sterling. Source: Morningstar, as at last quarter end.
Annual Returns:
Pound Sterling. BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc. benchmark and Morningstar category. Source: Morningstar, updated daily.
BlackRock performance figures are calculated on a total return basis with net income reinvested including management & operating charges and any performance fees.
Net Asset Value (NAV) performance is not the same as share price performance, and shareholders may realise returns that are lower or higher than NAV performance.
What are the risks?
- Capital at risk. The value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and are not guaranteed. Investors may not get back the amount originally invested.
- Net Asset Value (NAV) performance is not the same as share price performance, and shareholders may realise returns that are lower or higher than NAV performance.
- The Trust’s investments may have low liquidity which often causes the value of these investments to be less predictable. In extreme cases, the Trust’s may not be able to realise the investment at the latest market price or at a price considered fair.
- Investment strategies, such as borrowing, used by the Trust can result in even larger losses suffered when the value of the underlying investments fall.
- Smaller company investments are often associated with greater investment risk than those of larger company shares.
