DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT: Shs Ben Int/Putnam Premier Income Trust (NYSE:PPT) on 01/24/2020 declared a dividend of $0.0350 per share

Shs Ben Int/Putnam Premier Income Trust (NYSE:PPT) on 01/24/2020 declared a dividend of $ 0.0350 per share payable on March 02, 2020 to shareholders of record as of February 24, 2020.

Shs Ben Int/Putnam Premier Income Trust (NYSE:PPT) has paid dividends since 1990, has a current dividend yield of 7.6363635063% and has increased its dividends for 1 successive years.

Shs Ben Int/Putnam Premier Income Trust's market cap is $ 775,439,500 and has a PE ratio of 0.00. The stock price closed yesterday at $ 5.50 and has a 52 week low/high of $ 4.86 and $ 5.73.

Putnam Premier Income Trust is a closed-end non-diversified management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek high income consistent with the preservation of capital by allocating its investments among the U.S. government sector, high yield sector and international sector of the fixed-income securities market. The fund invests in higher yielding, lower-rated bonds that have a higher rate of default due to the nature of the investments. As of July 31, 2017, the Fund had total investments amounting to $1,046,171,502 and its total assets were $1,294,481,870.

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