---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001999371-25-006058"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GDV"
cik: "0001260729"
company_name: "GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST"
filed_at: "2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T08:03:38.271582+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gabelli Dividend & Income Trust increases Series M preferred dividend rate to 5.20%

## Summary
- Amendment to Series M Preferred Shares adopted March 19, 2025; dividend rate raised from 4.80% to 5.20% per annum.
- New rate effective May 1, 2025, affecting holders of Series M Cumulative Term Preferred Shares.
- GDV is the Fund's common stock ticker; Series M is not listed on NYSE.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001999371-25-006058
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GDV
- cik: 0001260729
- company_name: GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST
- filed_at: 2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1260729/000199937125006058/0001999371-25-006058-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1260729/000199937125006058/gdv_8k-051425.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001999371-25-006058.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST: Amendment to Series M Preferred Shares Statement of Preferences increasing dividend rate from 4.80% to 5.20% per annum (effective 2025-05-01).
  - Effective: 2025-05-01
  source text: The Series M Statement of Preferences Amendment increase the dividend rate on the Series M Shares from 4.80% per annum to 5.20% per annum, effective as of May 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1260729/000199937125006058/0001999371-25-006058-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.