The Global Smaller Companies Trust Announces Dividend of GBX 0.70 (LON:GSCT)

The Global Smaller Companies Trust (LON:GSCT) declared a dividend on Tuesday, December 17th,Upcoming Dividends.Co.Uk reports. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 24th will be given a dividend of GBX 0.70 ($0.01) per share on Thursday, January 23rd. This represents a yield of 0.42%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, December 24th. The official announcement can be seen at this link.

The Global Smaller Companies Trust Price Performance

LON:GSCT opened at GBX 166 ($2.11) on Wednesday. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 165.05 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 164.47. The company has a market cap of £836.49 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -2,759.47 and a beta of 1.01. The Global Smaller Companies Trust has a 52-week low of GBX 142 ($1.81) and a 52-week high of GBX 172.80 ($2.20). The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 6.69, a quick ratio of 0.64 and a current ratio of 0.96.

The Global Smaller Companies Trust Company Profile

BMO Global Smaller Companies PLC is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by F&C Investment Business Ltd. The fund invests in public equity markets across the globe. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in growth and value stocks of small cap companies.