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BLACKROCK Ltd DURATION INCOME TRUST
LAST CLOSE…
0
QUIET
RISK INDEX
= 0/100. WHY THIS NUMBER, PIECE BY PIECE.

THE READ The red-flag scanner came back clean this year.

FLAGS DILUTION CASH WHAT CHANGED VERDICT INSIDERS OUTSIDE RECORDS
01

Red Flags

2025-10-13 → 2026-10-13

We read every document this company filed with the SEC this year and counted the classic danger phrases. Where wording can be misleading, we open the actual documents and separate real warnings from accounting boilerplate. Each hit links to the exact document.

Dilution (at the market offering) CLEAN

An ATM lets the company print and sell new shares into the market any day it wants. Every print dilutes your slice.

Reverse stock split CLEAN

A reverse split shrinks the share count to lift the price above $1. Repeat reverse splits are the classic death-spiral signature.

Going concern doubt CLEAN

Auditors flagged substantial doubt the company survives the next 12 months without new money.

Delisting / exchange risk CLEAN

The exchange has threatened to kick the stock off. Delisting pressure usually ends in a reverse split or a fire-sale raise.

SOURCE: FULL-TEXT SEARCH OF THE COMPANY'S OFFICIAL SEC FILINGS. "REAL WARNINGS" = WE OPENED THE LINKED DOCUMENTS AND FILTERED PHRASES WRAPPED IN NEGATIONS, RESOLUTION LANGUAGE OR STANDARD CONTRACT TERMS. "AT LEAST" = MORE DOCUMENTS CARRY THE PHRASE THIS YEAR THAN WE COULD OPEN AND READ.

02

The Printing Press

How many shares exist, over time, exactly as the company reported in its own filings. In microcaps, a rising share count is how holders pay for everything: salaries, debts, and bad deals. Sudden collapses in the line are reverse splits, marked below.

This company has never published a share count in its filings. For a public company, that itself is unusual.

03

Cash Countdown

Cash in the bank against how fast the company burns it. When this hits zero, the next stop is usually a desperate raise at bad terms, and existing holders pay through dilution.

This company's filings do not report usable cash or burn figures. That is rare, and rarely good.

RUNWAY = CASH ON HAND ÷ MONTHLY CASH BURN. SIMPLE ARITHMETIC ON THE COMPANY'S OWN REPORTED NUMBERS, NOT A PROJECTION.

04

What the Newest Filing Changed

The latest filings, translated into holder impact. Every number cites its form, date and SEC link.

Shares outstanding

Shares outstanding: nothing to compare. This company's filings do not publish a share count for two consecutive periods, so no honest change can be computed.

Cash and equivalents

Cash and equivalents: nothing to compare. This company's filings do not publish us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue, so no honest change can be computed.

Total assets

Total assets: nothing to compare. This company's filings do not publish us-gaap:Assets, so no honest change can be computed.

Total liabilities

Total liabilities: nothing to compare. This company's filings do not publish us-gaap:Liabilities, so no honest change can be computed.

Revenue

Revenue: nothing to compare. This company's filings do not publish us-gaap:Revenues, so no honest change can be computed.

Cash burn / runway

Cash burn / runway: nothing to compare. This company's filings do not publish us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities, so no honest change can be computed.

NO CRITICAL-ITEM 8-Ks ON FILE IN 24 MONTHS: NO BANKRUPTCY PAPERS, DELISTING NOTICES, AUDITOR CHANGES OR WITHDRAWN NUMBERS. SILENCE HERE IS THE GOOD KIND.

NO 8-K IN THE LAST 7 DAYS. SILENCE IS NOTED TOO.

05

The Verdict

HOLD · LOW CONFIDENCE

A rules-based reading of the cited filing facts: a range with reasons, never a prediction.

HOLD
SCREENING VERDICT
LOW confidence

BASIS FOR

No cited positive facts.

AGAINST

−1

The filings do not publish a comparable share count for the last two quarters, so dilution could not be measured for this verdict.

−2

The filings do not report usable cash and operating-burn figures, so runway could not be computed for this verdict.

−3

The filings do not publish comparable revenue figures for two consecutive periods, so the revenue trend could not be measured.

−4

No fair-value bracket: the filings (or the optional price feed) do not provide enough cited numbers to compute one honestly.

METHOD: DETERMINISTIC RULES OVER CITED SEC FILING FACTS: SHARE-COUNT CHANGE BETWEEN THE LAST TWO REPORTED QUARTERS (DILUTION), CASH-TO-BURN RUNWAY FROM THE MOST RECENT OPERATING CASH FLOW, PERIOD-OVER-PERIOD REVENUE GROWTH, AND A FAIR-VALUE RANGE ANCHORED TO CASH PER SHARE VS PRICE. THRESHOLDS ARE TUNABLE IN APP/VERDICT_ENGINE.PY. NOT A PREDICTION.

06

Insider Paper Trail

GRANTS ONLY

Every time an officer, director or big owner trades shares, the law makes them file a Form 4 within two business days. We read the actual filings: who traded, what kind of trade, how big, at what price.

0
OPEN-MARKET BUYS
nobody is buying with their own cash
0
OPEN-MARKET SELLS
no open-market selling
10
GRANTS / AWARDS
6,449 new shares/options handed out: future dilution
DATEWHOACTION
2026-10-01 Steinmetz Arthur Philip GRANT/AWARD 966 @ $11.70 OPTIONS/DERIVATIVE
2026-10-01 Flores Lorenzo GRANT/AWARD 857 @ $11.70 OPTIONS/DERIVATIVE
2026-10-01 HUBBARD ROBERT GLENN GRANT/AWARD 1,055 @ $11.70 OPTIONS/DERIVATIVE
2026-10-01 Harris Stayce D. GRANT/AWARD 744 @ $11.70 OPTIONS/DERIVATIVE
2026-10-01 KESTER W CARL GRANT/AWARD 100 @ $11.70 OPTIONS/DERIVATIVE
2026-10-01 Holloman James Phillip GRANT/AWARD 801 @ $11.70 OPTIONS/DERIVATIVE
2026-08-03 Steinmetz Arthur Philip GRANT/AWARD 40 @ $12.53 OPTIONS/DERIVATIVE
2026-08-03 KESTER W CARL GRANT/AWARD 9 @ $12.53 OPTIONS/DERIVATIVE
2026-07-01 HUBBARD ROBERT GLENN GRANT/AWARD 981 @ $12.46 OPTIONS/DERIVATIVE
2026-07-01 Steinmetz Arthur Philip GRANT/AWARD 895 @ $12.46 OPTIONS/DERIVATIVE

NO OPEN-MARKET BUYS OR SELLS: JUST COMPENSATION PAPER. WATCH WHETHER THE GRANTS TURN INTO SALES ONCE THEY VEST. "10B5-1 PLAN" MEANS THE TRADE WAS SCHEDULED UNDER A PRE-SET TRADING PLAN, DISCLOSED IN THE FILING'S OWN FOOTNOTES: PRE-PLANNED SALES CARRY LESS SIGNAL THAN SPUR-OF-THE-MOMENT ONES. SOURCE: FORM 4 FILINGS, PARSED FROM THE SEC'S OWN XML, LAST 10 FILINGS.

07

Filing Timeline

The company's most recent SEC paperwork, newest first.

4 2026-10-05 0001193125-26-414240
4 2026-10-05 0001193125-26-414235
4 2026-10-05 0001193125-26-414227
4 2026-10-05 0001193125-26-414215
4 2026-10-05 0001193125-26-414195
4 2026-10-05 0001193125-26-414192

SOURCE: THE COMPANY'S SEC FILING INDEX

08

Outside the Filings

Public records that most investors never check, cross-checked against what the company claims. This is where shells slip up.

dfinsolutions.com
WEB ADDRESS ON RECORD
registered 2018-05-03 · via MarkMonitor Inc.
8.4 YRS OLD
DOMAIN AGE
old and consistent with an operating company: a good sign
1
OFFICIAL OFFERING DOCS · 12M
last one 2025-11-26: shares were actually sold to the market
0
SHELF REGISTRATIONS · 12M
none filed: no dilution pipeline on record
0
BIG-OWNER TAKEOVER FILINGS · 12M
no outside investor has crossed the 5% disclosure line this year
PUBLIC FLOAT
shares actually tradable, vs held by insiders and big owners
SOLD SHORT
FINRA short interest: how many shares are bets against this company, and how many days of trading it would take to cover
CLEAR
US SANCTIONS SCREEN
company name checked against the official US sanctions list (19334 entries)
LEGAL IDENTITY (LEI)
every company that trades securities must carry a global legal identifier: status, parent chain and subsidiaries from the official registry
INSTITUTIONAL HOLDERS · 13F
quarterly institutional holdings filings scanned for this exact company name: which funds still report holding shares, from their own filings
SITE HISTORY
how long the company's website has been around, per the public web archive
CERT RECORD
public certificate logs date the company's web infrastructure: old and boring is good, brand-new is a tell
REGISTRANT HISTORY
old snapshots of public WHOIS pages: has the registered owner of this address changed hands
HOSTING + MAIL RECORDS
public DNS records: where the address is pointed and whether it can even receive mail

SOURCES: PUBLIC DOMAIN REGISTRATION RECORDS (FOUND IN THE COMPANY'S OWN FILING SIGNATURES) · THE COMPANY'S SEC FILING INDEX · OFFICIAL US SANCTIONS LIST · QUARTERLY 13F FILINGS VIA EDGAR FULL-TEXT SEARCH · LEGAL-IDENTITY, SITE-HISTORY, CERTIFICATE, REGISTRANT-HISTORY AND DNS SLOTS STREAM IN FROM FREE PUBLIC REGISTRIES WITHOUT BLOCKING THIS PAGE.

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Company Record

Legal nameBLACKROCK Ltd DURATION INCOME TRUST
Fiscal year end1031
HQ100 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, MUTUAL FUND DEPARTMENT, WILMINGTON, DE
Last periodic reportNONE ON RECORD

SOURCE: THE COMPANY'S SEC FILING INDEX

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