Media headlines about LATIN AMERICAN (NYSE:LDF) have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. LATIN AMERICAN earned a media sentiment score of 0.03 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned headlines about the company an impact score of 47.69285554334 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company’s share price in the next several days.
LATIN AMERICAN (LDF) traded up 0.35% on Monday, reaching $11.44. The company had a trading volume of 1,885 shares. The company’s 50-day moving average is $10.81 and its 200-day moving average is $10.57. LATIN AMERICAN has a 52-week low of $8.78 and a 52-week high of $11.45.
The firm also recently declared a semiannual dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 14th. Investors of record on Friday, June 30th were paid a $0.0262 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, June 28th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.51%.
In related news, major shareholder City Of London Investment Grou sold 27,718 shares of LATIN AMERICAN stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $10.42, for a total value of $288,821.56. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 102,149 shares of company stock worth $1,061,805.
About LATIN AMERICAN
The Latin American Discovery Fund, Inc (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities of Latin American issuers and by investing from time to time in debt securities issued or guaranteed by a Latin American Government or Governmental entity.
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