Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Inc. (HIO) To Go Ex-Dividend on February 20th

Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Inc. (NYSE:HIO) announced a monthly dividend on Thursday, November 20th. Investors of record on Friday, February 20th will be given a dividend of 0.0355 per share by the closed-end fund on Friday, February 27th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 11.2%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 20th.

Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Trading Up 0.1%

Shares of HIO stock opened at $3.82 on Wednesday. Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund has a 12 month low of $3.36 and a 12 month high of $4.15. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $3.75 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $3.83.

Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Company Profile

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.