Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Inc. (HIO) To Go Ex-Dividend on May 21st

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

Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Stock Down 0.1%

NYSE:HIO opened at $3.77 on Wednesday. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $3.75 and its two-hundred day moving average is $3.82. Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund has a fifty-two week low of $3.36 and a fifty-two week high of $4.15.

About Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund

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.