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BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund’s (MPA) (the “Fund”) investment objective is to provide shareholders with as high a level of current income exempt from federal and Pennsylvania income taxes as is consistent with its investment policies and prudent investment management. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its assets in municipal obligations exempt from federal income taxes (except that the interest may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax) and Pennsylvania income taxes. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests primarily in long-term municipal obligations that are investment grade quality at the time of investment. The Fund may invest directly in such securities or synthetically through the use of derivatives.
Blackrock Muni Yield Pa Quality trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MPA.
As of March 4, 2026, MPA stock price climbed to $11.49 with 11,502 million shares trading.
MPA has a beta of 0.06, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MPA has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.
MPA has a market cap of $148.86 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, MPA traded as high as $12.82 and as low as $9.87.
MPA has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +4.2% while the SPY ETF gained +18.6%. However, in the short term, MPA had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +2.9% vs +0.5% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, MPA shares have been beat by the market, returning -0.1% compared to an SPY return of +0.3%.
MPA support price is $11.40 and resistance is $11.57 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MPA shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
