Eaton Vance Senior Floating Rate Trust Announces Earnings for the Three Months and Nine Months Ended July 31, 2013
October 18, 2013 at 04:30 pm
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Eaton Vance Senior Floating Rate Trust announced earnings for the three months and nine months ended July 31, 2013. For the three months, the company reported net investment income of $8,962,000 against $8,998,000 a year ago. Net realized and unrealized loss on investments was $5,728,000 against $2,250,000 a year ago. Net investment income per common share was $0.244 against $0.267 a year ago. Net realized and unrealized loss on investments per common share was $0.166 against $0.067 a year ago.
For the nine months, the company reported net investment income of $27,240,000 against $26,740,000 a year ago. Net realized and unrealized gain on investments was $5,945,000 against $14,309,000 a year ago. Net investment income per common share was $0.772 against $0.792 a year ago. Net realized and unrealized gain on investments per common share was $0.168 against $0.424 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 
