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PCEF holds 125 closed-end funds chosen with systematic rules. It has suffered significant capital and distribution decay since inception. Inflation and rising rates will likely be an additional drag in the future. Regarding valuation, its aggregate discount is not attractive. ...
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust (NYSE:BDJ) declares $0.0562/share monthly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 6.93% Payable April 29; for shareholders of record April 14; ex-div April 13. See BDJ Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further details...
BDJ recently bumped up its distribution by around 12.4% after investors received a generous year-end in 2021. This has been one of my go-to funds for a fairly diversified option-writing fund. The positioning for the fund has meant that it has held up relatively well YTD, with fina...
Four out of 24 CEF sectors positive on price and three out of 24 sectors positive on NAV last two weeks. SPE has an upcoming tender offer. GUT has a rights offering coming up. JPT tender offer and FTF rights offering completed. For further details see: Weekly Closed-...
Today, we are looking at how to tell if a fund might be paying a sustainable distribution or not. We use several examples covering both fixed-income and equity funds to help highlight their differences. Overall, fixed-income funds are more straightforward to analyze than equity fu...
Return of capital is often misunderstood as always being a bad thing when showing up in the tax character of distribution. However, there is a significant benefit to return of capital for those held in a taxable account as a way to defer tax obligations. These can be deferred pote...
I wrote a different style article for the Year-End review. I plan on doing several updates like this in year 2 as a health check to the portfolio. In week 52 I added to INTC, PTY, AGNC, BRMK, and QYLD. The Dividend Harvesting Portfolio finished the year in the black by $164.59, is...
CEFs may be more susceptible to tax loss selling given they trade on a stock exchange and market prices (investor return) can deviate from underlying NAVs (fund return). Additionally, CEFs typically provide income to shareholders through monthly distributions. These dynamics may creat...
Crypto? We contrarian income investors don’t need it. Gambling in Bitcoin, Ether or any “coins” with a dog on the front is pointless when we can dial in a safe dividend strategy for annualized returns up to 117% . This sneaky-smart plan is secure. It’...
BDJ was making significant moves higher; that rally has paused recently. The fund pays out investors a monthly distribution at a distribution yield of ~6%. This move has also widened the fund's discount out a bit as it was getting very close to trading at par. For further de...
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The BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) listed below announced today the results of the Quarterly Measurement Period (as defined below) under their previously announced discount management programs (the “Programs”). Funds with a Trigger Event (as defined below) at...
2024-06-10 02:08:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method. This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...
2024-05-09 10:40:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method. This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...