Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II to Issue Monthly Dividend of $0.15 (NYSEARCA:EOS)

Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II (NYSEARCA:EOS) announced a monthly dividend on Monday, February 2nd. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, February 17th will be given a dividend of 0.1523 per share on Friday, February 27th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 8.2%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 17th.

Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II Trading Down 1.6%

Shares of EOS traded down $0.36 during midday trading on Tuesday, hitting $22.21. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 61,459 shares, compared to its average volume of 132,914. Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II has a one year low of $17.56 and a one year high of $24.69. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $22.86 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $23.44.

About Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II

Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Eaton Vance Management. The fund invests in public equity markets of the United States. It seeks to invest in the stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in growth stocks of mid-cap and large-cap companies. It generates current earnings from option premiums by selling covered call options on a substantial portion of its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Russell 1000 Growth Index, the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index, and the CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index.