Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Inc. Declares Monthly Dividend of $0.04 (NYSE:HIO)

Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Inc. (NYSE:HIOGet Free Report) declared a monthly dividend on Monday, February 23rd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 21st will be given a dividend of 0.0355 per share by the closed-end fund on Friday, May 29th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 11.3%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 21st.

Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Stock Performance

Shares of HIO opened at $3.78 on Tuesday. Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund has a 1 year low of $3.36 and a 1 year high of $4.15. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $3.75 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $3.82.

Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Company Profile

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Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Inc (NYSE: HIO) is a diversified closed-end management investment company that seeks to provide high current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in high-yield and other fixed-income securities. The Fund’s portfolio is actively managed by Western Asset Management Company, an affiliate of Franklin Templeton, and may include below-investment-grade corporate debt, emerging-market sovereign and corporate bonds, bank loans, mortgage- and asset-backed securities.

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