BLACKROCK ENERGY AND RESOURCES INCOME TRUST plc
(LEI:54930040ALEAVPMMDC31)
All information is at 31 August 2025 and unaudited.
Performance at month end with net income reinvested
One Three Six One Three Five
Month Months Months Year Years Years
Net asset 2.6% 12.7% 7.7% 8.8% 14.2% 129.6%
value
Share price 1.2% 12.4% 8.6% 10.6% 8.6% 144.5%
Sources: Datastream, BlackRock
At month end
Net asset value – capital only: 135.12p
Net asset value cum income1: 136.09p
Share price: 123.50p
Discount to NAV (cum income): 9.3%
Net yield: 3.6%
Gearing - cum income: 6.6%
Total assets: £154.4m
Ordinary shares in issue2: 113,469,497
Gearing range (as a % of net 0-20%
assets):
Ongoing charges3: 1.15%
1 Includes net revenue of 0.97p.
2 Excluding 22,116,697 ordinary shares held in treasury.
3 The Company’s ongoing charges are calculated as a percentage of
average daily net assets and using the management fee and all
other operating expenses excluding finance costs, direct
transaction costs, custody transaction charges, VAT recovered,
taxation and certain other non-recurring items for the year ended
30 November 2024. In addition, the Company’s Manager has also
agreed to cap ongoing charges by rebating a portion of the
management fee to the extent that the Company’s ongoing charges
exceed 1.15% of average net assets.
Sector Overview
Mining 37.1%
Energy Transition 33.5%
Traditional Energy 29.5%
Net Current Liabilities -0.1%
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100.0%
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Sector Analysis % Total Country Analysis % Total
Assets^ Assets^
Mining: Global 48.8
Diversified 19.3 United States 18.5
Gold 4.5 Canada 6.2
Copper 3.2 Latin America 6.2
Industrial Minerals 2.9 United Kingdom 5.9
Materials 2.3 Germany 3.1
Aluminium 1.1 Italy 3.1
Steel 1.0 France 1.9
Uranium 0.9 Australia 1.9
Spain 1.6
Silver 0.9
Other Africa 1.0
Platinum Group Metals 0.5
Morocco 0.9
Nickel 0.5
Ireland 0.5
Subtotal Mining: 37.1
South Africa 0.5
Net Current Liabilities -0.1
Energy Transition: 100.0
Electrification 13.8
Renewables 9.3
Storage 5.8
Energy Efficiency 4.2
Transport 0.4
Subtotal Energy 33.5
Transition:
Traditional Energy:
Integrated 15.2
Oil Services 5.3
E&P 4.8
Distribution 2.3
Refining & Marketing 1.9
Subtotal Traditional 29.5
Energy:
Net Current Liabilities -0.1
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100.0
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^ Total Assets for the purposes of these calculations exclude bank
overdrafts, and the net current liabilities figure shown in the
tables above therefore exclude bank overdrafts equivalent to 6.5%
of the Company’s net asset value.
Ten Largest Investments
Company Region of Risk % Total Assets
Chevron Corporation Global 6.3
Vale - ADS Latin America 5.8
Anglo American Global 4.3
Abaxx Technologies Global 4.1
Shell Global 4.1
NiSource United States 3.3
Prysmian SpA Italy 3.1
Glencore Global 3.0
EDP Renovaveis Global 2.8
Elia Group Germany 2.7
Commenting on the markets, Tom Holl and Mark Hume, representing
the Investment Manager noted:
Global equity markets rose in August. Fed Chairman Powell’s
Jackson Hole speech suggested a ‘dovish’ stance, with bond markets
reflecting an increased probability of a rate cut in September.
Results from hyperscalers Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet, showed
continued expansion of AI data centre investment plans,
reinforcing the AI buildout momentum. The theme is also spreading
beyond U.S. giants, with Chinese tech stocks rallying on signs of
their own AI push. Geopolitical risk and trade tariff uncertainty
remained a feature with the US removing tariffs on certain copper
products and a meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin.
In the energy sector oil prices declined during the month
following the US administration backing down from the earlier
imposed sanctions on Russia, and due to weakening economic data.
Furthermore, in early August, OPEC+ finalised its decision to
fully unwind its 2.2 million barrels per day voluntary output cuts
by September 2025. Despite falling oil prices, energy equities
continued to rise. With supply growth expected to outpace demand,
the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecast crude
oil prices to fall below $60 per barrel by the end of 2025. The
Brent oil price and the WTI oil price fell by 7.6% and 8.5%,
ending the month at $68/bbl and $64/bbl respectively. The US Henry
Hub natural gas price fell by 3.5% during the month to end at
$3.0/mmbtu.
Regarding sustainable energy related news, the Q2 earnings season,
which concluded in August, was generally strong, particularly
among companies benefiting from power market dynamics, grid
investment, and data centre growth. The Treasury Department
released a response to President Trump’s anti-renewables Executive
Order, clarifying that as long as a renewables project is under
construction by July 2026, it has 4 tax years (i.e., to year-end
2030) to complete. This guidance was less punitive than feared,
providing strong visibility on project developments through the
end of this decade and comfortably into the next administration.
The mining sector performed strongly during the month,
predominantly driven by exceptional performance from the gold
equity sub-sector. The sub-sector reported Q2 earnings which
delivered on the free cash flow expansion we have been talking
about for some time. Encouragingly, most companies remained
disciplined around returning capital to shareholders through
increased dividends and share buybacks. The gold producers also
benefitted from a 4.4% rise in the gold price over the month to
US$3,441/oz. The silver price also performed well, rising 7.1%.
Outside of the precious metals, mined commodity price performance
was also mostly positive with iron ore, copper and aluminium
prices rising by 3.6%, 2.7% and 2.2% respectively. Continued
rhetoric around anti-involution measures in China improved market
sentiment towards the country. Meanwhile, government action and
news flow around securing critical minerals supply appeared to
intensify during the month.
All data points in US dollar terms unless otherwise specified.
Commodity price moves sourced from Thomson Reuters Datastream.
16 September 2025
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