Eaton Vance Senior Floating Rate Trust Announces Earnings for the Second Quarter and Six Months Ended April 30, 2013
July 09, 2013 at 02:05 pm EDT
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Eaton Vance Senior Floating Rate Trust announced earnings for the second quarter and six months ended April 30, 2013. For the three months, the trust had net investment income of $8,924,401 or $0.252 per common share against $10,081,721 or $0.299 per common share a year ago. Net investment income after the preferred dividends was $8,872,705 or $0.251 per common share against $10,023,739 or $0.297 per common share a year ago. Net realized and unrealized gains were $4,588,700 or $0.125 per common share against $7,770,133 or $0.231 per common share a year ago.
For the six months, the trust had net investment income of $18,277,804 or $0.528 per common share $17,742,129 or $0.525 per common share a year ago. Net investment income after the preferred dividends was $18,162,613 or $0.525 per common share against $17,642,321 or $0.522 per common share a year ago. Net realized and unrealized gains were $11,673,103 or $0.334 per common share against $16,558,740 or $0.491 per common share a year ago. The net asset value per common share on April 30, 2013 was $16.00 against $15.41 a year ago.
Eaton Vance Senior Floating-Rate Trust (the Trust) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Trustâs primary investment objective is to provide a high level of current income. The Trust may, as a secondary objective, also seek the preservation of capital to the extent consistent with its primary objective. The Trust holds investments in a range of sectors, such as software, health care providers and services, machinery, chemicals, commercial services and supplies, information technology (IT) services, capital markets, hotels, restaurants and leisure, specialty retail and professional services. The Trust invests in floating-rate loans, asset-backed securities, corporate bonds and others. It has investments in the United States, Europe (excluding the United Kingdom), Northern America (excluding the United States), the United Kingdom and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan). The Trustâs investment adviser is Eaton Vance Management.
EATON VANCE SENIOR FLOATING-RATE TRUST 
