---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001829126-25-010102"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GDV"
cik: "0001260729"
company_name: "GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST"
filed_at: "2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:53:27.120744+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gabelli Dividend & Income Trust increases authorized Series M Preferred Shares by 10M to 30M

## Summary
- Adopted Amendment No. 2 designating additional 10M common shares as Series M Preferred Shares, effective Dec 11, 2025.
- Total authorized Series M Preferred Shares now 30M; 16.85M outstanding, 13.15M available for issuance.
- No changes to dividend rate, liquidation preference, or other terms of Series M Preferred Shares disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001829126-25-010102
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GDV
- cik: 0001260729
- company_name: GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST
- filed_at: 2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1260729/000182912625010102/0001829126-25-010102-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1260729/000182912625010102/gabelli_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST: Adopted Amendment No. 2 to the Statement of Preferences of Series M Cumulative Term Preferred Shares designating an additional 10 million common shares as Series M Preferred Shares, increasing total authorized to 30 million shares (effective 2025-12-11).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-12-11
  source text: On December 11, 2025, the Gabelli Dividend & Income Trust (the “Fund”) adopted Amendment No. 2 to the Statement of Preferences of Series M Cumulative Term Preferred Shares (the “Series M Statement of Preferences Amendment”) establishing and fixing the rights and preferences of the Fund’s Series M Cumulative Term Preferred Shares (the “Series M Preferred Shares”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1260729/000182912625010102/0001829126-25-010102-index.htm

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