Schedule of Investments (unaudited)
June 30, 2020
BlackRock Technology Opportunities Fund
(Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)
Security | Shares | Value | |
Common Stocks | |||
Automobiles — 1.4% | |||
Tesla, Inc.(a)(b) | 59,473 | $ 64,219,540 | |
Chemicals — 0.8% | |||
LG Chem Ltd. | 83,271 | 34,364,201 | |
Communications Equipment — 0.6% | |||
Accton Technology Corp. | 3,651,000 | 28,352,216 | |
Diversified Consumer Services — 2.3% | |||
Arco Platform Ltd., Class A(a)(b) | 542,657 | 23,594,726 | |
Chegg, Inc.(a)(b) | 623,052 | 41,906,478 | |
TAL Education Group, ADR(a) | 575,479 | 39,351,254 | |
104,852,458 | |||
Diversified Financial Services — 0.1% | |||
TransferWise (Acquired 06/03/19, cost $3,861,759)(a)(c)(d) | 43,665 | 4,657,746 | |
Diversified Telecommunication Services — 0.6% | |||
Bandwidth, Inc., Class A(a)(b) | 211,847 | 26,904,569 | |
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components — 0.6% | |||
Yageo Corp. | 2,118,000 | 27,592,937 | |
Entertainment — 4.2% | |||
Activision Blizzard, Inc. | 544,948 | 41,361,553 | |
NetEase, Inc., ADR | 87,115 | 37,405,439 | |
Netflix, Inc.(a) | 52,901 | 24,072,071 | |
Roku, Inc.(a)(b) | 219,957 | 25,631,589 | |
Tencent Music Entertainment Group, ADR(a) | 2,602,802 | 35,033,715 | |
Warner Music Group Corp., Class A(a) | 895,992 | 26,431,764 | |
189,936,131 | |||
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) — 0.5% | |||
Equinix, Inc. | 34,775 | 24,422,482 | |
Health Care Technology — 1.5% | |||
Ping An Healthcare and Technology Co. Ltd.(a)(b)(e) | 2,230,059 | 34,190,227 | |
Teladoc Health, Inc.(a) | 175,835 | 33,556,351 | |
67,746,578 | |||
Interactive Media & Services — 10.2% | |||
Adevinta ASA(a) | 1,743,696 | 17,648,704 | |
Alphabet, Inc., Class A(a) | 60,163 | 85,314,142 | |
Facebook, Inc., Class A(a) | 225,319 | 51,163,185 | |
Kakao Corp. | 255,078 | 57,240,166 | |
Pinterest, Inc., Class A(a) | 972,699 | 21,564,737 | |
Snap, Inc., Class A(a) | 1,796,115 | 42,190,741 | |
Tencent Holdings Ltd. | 1,658,300 | 106,260,403 | |
Yandex NV, Class A(a) | 573,022 | 28,662,561 | |
ZoomInfo Technologies, Inc., Class A(a) | 1,056,923 | 53,934,781 | |
463,979,420 | |||
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail — 10.0% | |||
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., ADR(a) | 428,109 | 92,343,111 | |
Amazon.com, Inc.(a) | 46,081 | 127,129,184 | |
Delivery Hero SE(a)(e) | 415,868 | 42,737,425 | |
Ensogo Ltd.(a)(c) | 94,425 | 1 | |
Farfetch Ltd., Class A(a)(b) | 1,685,866 | 29,114,906 | |
Jasper Infotech Private Ltd. (Acquired 05/07/14, cost $1,414,399)(a)(c)(d) | 1,900 | 451,497 | |
Meituan Dianping, Class B(a) | 1,800,430 | 40,233,087 | |
MercadoLibre, Inc.(a)(b) | 54,439 | 53,664,333 | |
Pinduoduo, Inc., ADR(a) | 452,366 | 38,831,098 | |
Zalando SE(a)(e) | 398,251 | 28,252,006 | |
452,756,648 |
Security | Shares | Value | |
IT Services — 14.7% | |||
Adyen NV(a)(e) | 24,366 | $ 35,464,400 | |
GDS Holdings Ltd., ADR(a)(b) | 490,157 | 39,045,907 | |
Global Payments, Inc. | 152,445 | 25,857,721 | |
GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. | 305,100 | 31,911,480 | |
Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd., ADR(a)(b) | 772,218 | 24,340,311 | |
Mastercard, Inc., Class A | 191,127 | 56,516,254 | |
MongoDB, Inc.(a) | 130,675 | 29,576,979 | |
Okta, Inc.(a) | 187,556 | 37,554,338 | |
Pagseguro Digital Ltd., Class A(a)(b) | 720,555 | 25,464,414 | |
PayPal Holdings, Inc.(a) | 459,910 | 80,130,119 | |
Shopify, Inc., Class A(a) | 56,091 | 53,241,577 | |
Square, Inc., Class A(a)(b) | 599,437 | 62,904,919 | |
StoneCo Ltd., Class A(a)(b) | 981,401 | 38,039,103 | |
Twilio, Inc., Class A(a)(b) | 315,550 | 69,237,981 | |
Visa, Inc., Class A | 298,656 | 57,691,380 | |
666,976,883 | |||
Multiline Retail — 1.1% | |||
Magazine Luiza SA | 3,650,655 | 48,200,112 | |
Professional Services — 0.7% | |||
Clarivate PLC(a)(b) | 1,373,700 | 30,674,721 | |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment — 14.5% | |||
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.(a) | 923,717 | 48,596,751 | |
Analog Devices, Inc. | 269,149 | 33,008,433 | |
ASML Holding NV | 127,731 | 46,725,458 | |
Cree, Inc.(a)(b) | 646,851 | 38,287,111 | |
Inphi Corp.(a)(b) | 451,873 | 53,095,077 | |
Lam Research Corp. | 166,152 | 53,743,526 | |
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. | 1,605,283 | 56,281,222 | |
Micron Technology, Inc.(a) | 677,151 | 34,886,820 | |
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | 173,982 | 41,233,734 | |
NVIDIA Corp. | 95,819 | 36,402,596 | |
NXP Semiconductors NV | 292,490 | 33,355,560 | |
Renesas Electronics Corp.(a) | 5,987,100 | 30,776,114 | |
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. | 269,448 | 34,451,621 | |
SOITEC(a) | 334,501 | 37,262,286 | |
STMicroelectronics NV | 1,543,116 | 42,062,510 | |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., ADR | 628,559 | 35,683,294 | |
655,852,113 | |||
Software — 24.5% | |||
Adobe, Inc.(a) | 106,057 | 46,167,673 | |
Agora, Inc., ADR(a) | 530,914 | 23,450,471 | |
Alteryx, Inc., Class A(a)(b) | 191,221 | 31,413,786 | |
Altium Ltd. | 1,336,069 | 30,271,604 | |
Anaplan, Inc.(a) | 478,844 | 21,696,422 | |
Atlassian Corp. PLC, Class A(a) | 217,222 | 39,158,610 | |
Autodesk, Inc.(a) | 192,560 | 46,058,426 | |
Avalara, Inc.(a) | 254,962 | 33,932,893 | |
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.(a) | 415,449 | 39,866,486 | |
Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc., Class A(a) | 328,036 | 32,898,730 | |
Elastic NV(a) | 329,637 | 30,395,828 | |
Fair Isaac Corp.(a) | 73,992 | 30,931,616 | |
Globant SA(a) | 216,191 | 32,396,221 | |
Intuit, Inc. | 122,632 | 36,322,372 | |
Kingdee International Software Group Co. Ltd.(b) | 18,131,000 | 42,424,428 | |
Microsoft Corp. | 831,862 | 169,292,236 | |
Paycom Software, Inc.(a)(b) | 93,209 | 28,869,624 | |
RingCentral, Inc., Class A(a) | 165,641 | 47,209,341 | |
salesforce.com, Inc.(a) | 186,294 | 34,898,455 | |
ServiceNow, Inc.(a) | 124,362 | 50,374,072 | |
Smartsheet, Inc., Class A(a)(b) | 446,419 | 22,731,655 |
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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)
June 30, 2020
BlackRock Technology Opportunities Fund
(Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)
Security | Shares | Value | |
Software (continued) | |||
Splunk, Inc.(a) | 169,385 | $ 33,656,800 | |
SVMK, Inc.(a) | 904,268 | 21,286,469 | |
TeamViewer AG(a)(e) | 663,907 | 36,250,539 | |
Weimob, Inc.(a)(b)(e) | 26,452,000 | 33,450,642 | |
Xero Ltd.(a)(b) | 430,940 | 27,069,473 | |
Zendesk, Inc.(a)(b) | 283,072 | 25,060,364 | |
Zoom Video Communications, Inc., Class A(a)(b) | 97,166 | 24,635,468 | |
Zscaler, Inc.(a) | 379,689 | 41,575,945 | |
1,113,746,649 | |||
Specialty Retail — 0.7% | |||
Vroom, Inc.(a)(b) | 592,724 | 30,904,629 | |
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals — 3.8% | |||
Apple Inc. | 475,805 | 173,573,664 | |
Total Common Stocks — 92.8% (Cost: $2,536,251,952) | 4,209,713,697 | ||
Preferred Securities | |||
Preferred Stocks — 1.0% | |||
Diversified Financial Services — 0.1% | |||
TransferWise | |||
Series A (Acquired 06/03/19, cost $1,569,103)(a)(c)(d) | 17,742 | 1,892,539 | |
Series B (Acquired 06/03/19, cost $450,608)(a)(c)(d) | 5,095 | 543,484 | |
Series C (Acquired 06/03/19, cost $251,969)(a)(c)(d) | 2,849 | 303,903 | |
Series D (Acquired 06/03/19, cost $69,694)(a)(c)(d) | 788 | 84,056 | |
Series E (Acquired 06/03/19, cost $7,429)(a)(c)(d) | 84 | 8,960 | |
TransferWise (Seed Preferred) (Acquired 06/03/19, cost $1,327,042)(a)(c)(d) | 15,005 | 1,600,583 | |
4,433,525 | |||
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail — 0.1% | |||
Postmates, Inc., Series F (Acquired 01/08/19, cost $6,260,003)(a)(c)(d) | 784,550 | 5,327,095 | |
5,327,095 | |||
Road & Rail — 0.1% | |||
FlixMobility GmbH, Series F (Acquired 07/26/19, cost $2,492,260)(a)(c)(d) | 125 | 1,413,977 | |
Xiaoju Kuaizhi, Inc., Series A-17 (Acquired 07/28/15, cost $1,080,592)(a)(c)(d) | 39,400 | 2,048,406 | |
3,462,383 | |||
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment — 0.3% | |||
PsiQuantum Corp., Series C (Acquired 09/09/19, cost $2,698,453)(a)(c)(d) | 581,814 | 2,670,526 | |
SambaNova Systems, Inc., Series C (Acquired 02/20/20, cost $9,804,574)(a)(c)(d) | 184,153 | 10,283,104 | |
12,953,630 |
Security | Shares | Value | |
Software — 0.4% | |||
C3 AI, Inc., Series H (Acquired 08/14/19, cost $5,995,815)(a)(c)(d) | 1,190,000 | $ 6,318,900 | |
Databricks, Inc., Series F (Acquired 22/10/19, cost $3,700,005)(a)(c)(d) | 86,150 | 5,707,437 | |
GitLab Inc., Series E (Acquired 09/10/19, cost $5,163,325)(a)(c)(d) | 277,160 | 5,845,304 | |
Palantir Technologies, Inc., Series I (Acquired 02/07/14, cost $1,500,011)(a)(c)(d) | 244,700 | 1,681,089 | |
19,552,730 | |||
Total Preferred Securities — 1.0% (Cost: $42,370,883) | 45,729,363 | ||
Total Long-Term Investments — 93.8% (Cost: $2,578,622,835) | 4,255,443,060 | ||
Short-Term Securities(f)(g) | |||
Money Market Funds — 12.7% | |||
BlackRock Liquidity Funds, T-Fund, Institutional Class, 0.11% | 279,843,708 | 279,843,708 | |
SL Liquidity Series, LLC, Money Market Series, 0.50%(h) | 297,720,489 | 297,958,666 | |
Total Short-Term Securities — 12.7% (Cost: $577,653,082) | 577,802,374 | ||
Total Investments — 106.5% (Cost: $3,156,275,917) | 4,833,245,434 | ||
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets — (6.5)% | (297,017,293) | ||
Net Assets — 100.0% | $ 4,536,228,141 |
(a) | Non-income producing security. |
(b) | All or a portion of this security is on loan. |
(c) | Security is valued using significant unobservable inputs and is classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. |
(d) | Restricted security as to resale, excluding 144A securities. The Fund held restricted securities with a current value of $50,838,606, representing 1.1% of its net assets as of period end, and an original cost of $47,647,041. |
(e) | Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration to qualified institutional investors. |
(f) | Affiliate of the Fund. |
(g) | Annualized 7-day yield as of period end. |
(h) | All or a portion of this security was purchased with the cash collateral from loaned securities. |
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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)
June 30, 2020
BlackRock Technology Opportunities Fund
Affiliates
Investments in issuers considered to be an affiliate/affiliates of the Fund during the period ended June 30, 2020 for purposes of Section 2(a)(3) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, were as follows:
Affiliated Issuer | Shares Held at 09/30/19 | Shares Purchased | Shares Sold | Shares Held at 06/30/20 | Value at 06/30/20 | Income | Net Realized Gain (Loss)(a) | Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | |||
BlackRock Liquidity Funds, T-Fund, Institutional Class | 17,180,622 | 262,663,086(b) | — | 279,843,708 | $ 279,843,708 | $ 559,886 | $ 106 | $ — | |||
SL Liquidity Series, LLC, Money Market Series | 145,550,227 | 152,170,262(b) | — | 297,720,489 | 297,958,666 | 1,974,866(c) | (35,300) | 131,707 | |||
$ 577,802,374 | $ 2,534,752 | $ (35,194) | $ 131,707 |
(a) | Includes net capital gain distributions, if applicable. |
(b) | Represents net shares purchased (sold). |
(c) | All or a portion represents securities lending income earned from the reinvestment of cash collateral from loaned securities, net of fees and collateral investment expenses, and other payments to and from borrowers of securities. |
For Fund compliance purposes, the Fund’s sector classifications refer to one or more of the sector sub-classifications used by one or more widely recognized market indexes or rating group indexes, and/or as defined by the investment adviser. These definitions may not apply for purposes of this report, which may combine such sector sub-classifications for reporting ease.
Portfolio Abbreviation | |
ADR | American Depositary Receipt |
Fair Value Hierarchy as of Period End
Various inputs are used in determining the fair value of investments. These inputs to valuation techniques are categorized into a fair value hierarchy consisting of three broad levels for financial reporting purposes as follows:
• Level 1 — Unadjusted price quotations in active markets/exchanges for identical assets or liabilities that the Fund has the ability to access
• Level 2 — Other observable inputs (including, but not limited to, quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in markets that are active, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the assets or liabilities (such as interest rates, yield curves, volatilities, prepayment speeds, loss severities, credit risks and default rates) or other market–corroborated inputs)
• Level 3 — Unobservable inputs based on the best information available in the circumstances, to the extent observable inputs are not available (including the BlackRock Global Valuation Methodologies Committee’s (the “Global Valuation Committee’s”) assumptions used in determining the fair value of investments)
The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). Accordingly, the degree of judgment exercised in determining fair value is greatest for instruments categorized in Level 3. The inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, for disclosure purposes, the fair value hierarchy classification is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. Investments classified within Level 3 have significant unobservable inputs used by the Global Valuation Committee in determining the price for Fair Valued Investments. Level 3 investments include equity or debt issued by privately held companies or funds. There may not be a secondary market, and/or there are a limited number of investors. The categorization of a value determined for investments is based on the pricing transparency of the investments and is not necessarily an indication of the risks associated with investing in those securities. For information about the Fund’s policy regarding valuation of investments, refer to the Fund’s most recent financial statements as contained in its semi-annual report.
Certain investments of the Fund were fair valued using net asset value per share (“NAV”) as no quoted market value is available and therefore have been excluded from the fair value hierarchy.
The following tables summarize the Fund’s investments categorized in the disclosure hierarchy:
Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Total | |
Assets | ||||
Investments | ||||
Long-Term Investments | ||||
Common Stocks | ||||
Automobiles | $ 64,219,540 | $ — | $ — | $ 64,219,540 |
Chemicals | — | 34,364,201 | — | 34,364,201 |
Communications Equipment | — | 28,352,216 | — | 28,352,216 |
Diversified Consumer Services | 104,852,458 | — | — | 104,852,458 |
Diversified Financial Services | — | — | 4,657,746 | 4,657,746 |
Diversified Telecommunication Services | 26,904,569 | — | — | 26,904,569 |
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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)
June 30, 2020
BlackRock Technology Opportunities Fund
Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Total | ||||
Common Stocks (continued) | |||||||
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components | $ — | $ 27,592,937 | $ — | $ 27,592,937 | |||
Entertainment | 189,936,131 | — | — | 189,936,131 | |||
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) | 24,422,482 | — | — | 24,422,482 | |||
Health Care Technology | 33,556,351 | 34,190,227 | — | 67,746,578 | |||
Interactive Media & Services | 282,830,147 | 181,149,273 | — | 463,979,420 | |||
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail | 341,082,632 | 111,222,518 | 451,498 | 452,756,648 | |||
IT Services | 635,065,403 | 31,911,480 | — | 666,976,883 | |||
Multiline Retail | 48,200,112 | — | — | 48,200,112 | |||
Professional Services | 30,674,721 | — | — | 30,674,721 | |||
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | 499,025,745 | 156,826,368 | — | 655,852,113 | |||
Software | 980,530,502 | 133,216,147 | — | 1,113,746,649 | |||
Specialty Retail | 30,904,629 | — | — | 30,904,629 | |||
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | 173,573,664 | — | — | 173,573,664 | |||
Preferred Securities | — | — | 45,729,363 | 45,729,363 | |||
Short-Term Securities | |||||||
Money Market Funds | 279,843,708 | — | — | 279,843,708 | |||
$ 3,745,622,794 | $ 738,825,367 | $ 50,838,607 | 4,535,286,768 | ||||
Investments Valued at NAV(a) | 297,958,666 | ||||||
$ 4,833,245,434 |
The breakdown of the Fund’s investments into major categories is disclosed in the Schedule of Investments above. |
(a) | Certain investments of the Fund were fair valued using NAV per share as no quoted market value is available and therefore have been excluded from the fair value hierarchy. |
A reconciliation of Level 3 investments is presented when the Fund had a significant amount of Level 3 investments at the beginning and/or end of the period in relation to net assets. The following table is a reconciliation of Level 3 investments for which significant unobservable inputs were used in determining fair value:
Common Stocks | Preferred Stocks | Total | ||||
Assets: | ||||||
Opening balance, as of October 1, 2019 | $4,466,728 | $30,773,810 | $35,240,538 | |||
Transfers into Level 3 | — | — | — | |||
Transfers out of Level 3 | — | — | — | |||
Other | — | — | — | |||
Net realized gain (loss) | — | — | — | |||
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)(a) | 642,516 | 1,449,322 | 2,091,838 | |||
Purchases | — | 13,506,231 | 13,506,231 | |||
Sales | — | — | — | |||
Closing balance, as of June 30, 2020 | $5,109,244 | $45,729,363 | $50,838,607 | |||
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments still held at June 30, 2020(a) | $642,516 | $1,449,322 | $2,091,838 |
(a) | Any difference between net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) and net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments still held at June 30, 2020, is generally due to investments no longer held or categorized as Level 3 at period end. |
The following table summarizes the valuation approaches used and unobservable inputs utilized by the BlackRock Global Valuation Methodologies Committee to determine the value of certain of the Fund’s Level 3 investments as of period end.
Value | Valuation Approach | Unobservable Inputs | Range of Unobservable Inputs Utilized(a) | Weighted Average of Unobservable Inputs Based on Fair Value | |
Assets | |||||
Common Stocks | $ 5,109,244 | Market | Revenue Multiple | 6.50x - 10.50x | 10.15x |
Market | Revenue Multiple | 2.75x - 20.75x | 11.22x | ||
Volatility | 59% - 61% | 61% | |||
Preferred Securities(b)(c) | 45,729,363 | Time to Exit | 3.0 - 5.0 | 3.4 | |
$ 50,838,607 |
(a) | A significant change in unobservable input would have resulted in a correlated (inverse) significant change to value. |
(b) | For the period ended June 30, 2020, the valuation technique for investments classified as Preferred Stocks amounting to $2,670,526 changed to Option Pricing Model. The investments were previously valued utilizing Transaction Price approach. The change was due to consideration of the information that was available at the time the investments were valued. |
(c) | For the period ended June 30, 2020, the valuation technique for investments classified as Preferred Stocks amounting to $20,953,682 changed to Current Value Method. The investments were previously valued utilizing Transaction Price approach. The change was due to consideration of the information that was available at the time the investments were valued. |
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