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investment trustChelverton UK Dividend Trust (SDV) is first and foremost an income fund offering quarterly dividends in excess of inflation over the medium to long term.

 

The company also aims to provide investors with the opportunity for capital growth after providing a return that is sufficient to repay the zero-dividend preference (ZDP) shares.

At the helm of the portfolio are lead manager David Horner and co-manager David Taylor, who look for companies with a prospective dividend yield of at least 4% and sit outside the FTSE 100.
 

The trust currently yields 5.3%, considerably more than the weighted average in the UK Equity Income sector, which yields 3.9%

 

The team specialises in the mid and small-cap income space and, according to Morningstar, have 70% of the portfolio in micro-cap stocks and a further 27.6% in small caps. The average company size in the portfolio sits at just £191m.

The trust currently yields 5.3%, considerably more than the weighted average in the UK Equity Income sector, which yields 3.9%.

From this financial year (2020), dividends will be paid equally across quarterly interim payments, and the board anticipates paying a total of 9.6p for the current year. At the current share price, this equates to a yield of 5.5%.

The board has also announced that once the trust’s revenue reserves are equal to double the historic dividend, the company will stop adding to reserves and distribute all further income as special dividends.

As at of the end of financial year 2019, the trust had revenue reserves of 19.19p per share, 199% of the expected financial year 2020 annual dividend.
 

Over a ten-year period, the trust has delivered 375% in NAV total returns

 

Alongside generating strong income, long-term performance figures for the trust have been exceptional.

Over a ten-year period, the trust has delivered 375% in NAV total returns, considerably more than the MSCI UK Small Cap sector, at 256.5%, the AIC UK Equity Income sector, at 205.8%, and the IA UK Equity Income sector, at 149.3%.

With this said, returns have been rocky over the medium and short term. Much of this is due to the trust being highly geared through ZDPs, which has meant that the corrections in 2016 and 2018 hit the trust particularly hard.

Since the start of the year, the trust has generated a NAV total return of 5.7%, trailing the benchmark and peer group by some margin, which returned 16.8% and 14.6% respectively.

Currently the trust trades on a discount of 14.3% compared to the UK Equity Income sector weighted average of 4.6%
 

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