GUT News and Press, Gabelli Utility Trust From 09/28/23

2023-09-28 17:59:37 ET Summary Closed-end funds with high distribution rates and elevated premiums may be setting investors up for significant losses. Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund (GOF) and Gabelli Utility Trust (GUT) are sell candidates due to weak distribution coverag...

RYE, N.Y., Sept. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Trustees of The Gabelli Utility Trust (NYSE: GUT) (the “Fund”) has authorized an exchange offer (the “Offer”) for all of the Fund’s outstanding Series B Auction Market Preferred Shares (the “Serie...

2023-08-30 13:49:28 ET Summary In 2018, we warned about premium valuations in equity CEFs before a correction and bear market occurred. We believe that the current wide discounts in many CEFs are due to institutional shareholders reducing or liquidating their exposure. The pre...

2023-08-23 01:53:49 ET Summary Gabelli Funds' 13F portfolio value remained steady at $13.20B this quarter. Top five holdings are NextEra Energy, Microsoft, Mastercard, AMETEK, and Genuine Parts Company. Stake increases include American Express, National Fuel Gas, Diageo plc, A...

2023-07-31 17:35:53 ET Summary It's been a rough year for utility stocks and utility focused CEFs as interest rates have moved up making their high dividend yields less attractive. So despite a bull market in just about everything this year, the SPDR Utility ETF (XLU) is actually ...

2023-07-27 09:57:58 ET The largest U.S. electric grid operator issued a level one emergency alert for Thursday, calling on all power plants to operate at full capacity, as a heat wave bakes much of the U.S. PJM Interconnection, which serves more than 65M customers across a 13-state ...

A video accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/6dbbac6e-7a71-478e-910e-5ab37f8f1e2c RYE, N.Y., July 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gabelli Funds is pleased to present a video tracing the 50+ year history of the oldest, existing clo...

2023-07-18 11:52:09 ET The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has vacated transmission rules that allow the functioning of the Southeast Energy Exchange Market, a trading platform for several major utility companies, Utility Dive reported Tuesday. The Federal Energy Regu...

2023-07-08 04:53:19 ET Summary The Gabelli Utility Trust (GUT) fund is trading at a 113% premium to its net asset value (NAV), despite only delivering a 6.7% average annual return over 10 years. The fund is liquidating its NAV to maintain an unsustainable 18.5% distribution yield,...

2023-06-30 05:00:24 ET If retirement gets any better than monthly dividend payers then, well, I don’t want to know about it. Seriously. I’m a simple guy! Pay me every 30 days and I’ll smile and shut up. And I’ll grin even wider when my monthly dividen...