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| Item 5.03. | Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year |
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”). Pursuant to the Series M Statement of Preferences Amendment, an additional 10 million authorized and unissued common shares of beneficial interest of the Fund, par value $0.001 per share, have been designated as shares of Series M Preferred Shares, effective as of December 11, 2025. As a result, the Fund is authorized to issue up to a total of 30 million shares of Series M Preferred Shares.
As of December 11, 2025, the Fund had issued and outstanding 16,850,000 shares of Series M Preferred Shares and 13,150,000 shares of Series M Preferred Shares are available to be issued and sold.
A copy of the Series M Statement of Preferences Amendment is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this report and incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
| (d) | Exhibits |
| 3.1 | Amendment No. 2 to the Statement of Preferences of Series M Cumulative Term Preferred Shares |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| THE GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST | ||
| Date: December 17, 2025 | By: | /s/ John C. Ball |
| Name: | John C. Ball | |
| Title: | President and Treasurer | |
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