Sec Form 13D Filing - GAMCO INVESTORS INC. (GBL) filing for GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUS (GDV) - 2024-10-18

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 13D

Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

The Gabelli Dividend & Income Trust

 (CUSIP Number)

David Goldman

GAMCO Investors, Inc.

One Corporate Center

Rye, New York 10580-1435

(914) 921-5000

_____________October 11, 2024____________

(Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement)

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§ 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box  .

 CUSIP No. (i) 36242H104; (ii) 36242H880, 36242H872, 36242H864 & 36242H856

CUSIP No. (i) 36242H104; (ii) 36242H880, 36242H872, 36242H864 & 36242H856

CUSIP No. (i) 36242H104; (ii) 36242H880, 36242H872, 36242H864 & 36242H856

CUSIP No. (i) 36242H104; (ii) 36242H880, 36242H872, 36242H864 & 36242H856

CUSIP No. (i) 36242H104; (ii) 36242H880, 36242H872, 36242H864 & 36242H856

CUSIP No. (i) 36242H104; (ii) 36242H880, 36242H872, 36242H864 & 36242H856

Item 1. Security and Issuer

The class of equity securities to which this statement on Schedule 13D relates is the Common Shares, 5.375% Series H Cumulative Preferred Shares, the Series J Cumulative Term Preferred Shares, the 4.250% Series K Cumulative Preferred Shares & the 4.80% Series M Cumulative Preferred Shares (“Preferred Shares”) of The Gabelli Dividend & Income Trust (the “Issuer”), a Delaware statutory trust with principal offices located at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580.

Item 2. Identity and Background

              This statement is being filed by various entities which except for LICT Corporation (“LICT) and CIBL, Inc. (“CIBL”), engage in various aspects of the securities business, primarily as investment adviser to various institutional and individual clients, including registered investment companies and pension plans, and as general partner or the equivalent of various private investment partnerships or private funds and as a registered broker-dealer.  Certain of these entities may also make investments for their own accounts. Mario J. Gabelli (“Mario Gabelli”) is deemed to directly or indirectly control these entities through his ownership interest.

The foregoing persons in the aggregate often own beneficially more than 5% of a class of equity securities of a particular issuer.  Although several of the foregoing persons are treated as institutional investors for purposes of reporting their beneficial ownership on the short-form Schedule 13G, the holdings of those who do not qualify as institutional investors may exceed the 1% threshold presented for filing on Schedule 13G or implementation of their investment philosophy may from time to time require action which could be viewed as not completely passive.  In order to avoid any question as to whether their beneficial ownership is being reported on the proper form and in order to provide greater investment flexibility and administrative uniformity, these persons have decided to file their beneficial ownership reports on the more detailed Schedule 13D form rather than on the short-form Schedule 13G and thereby to provide more expansive disclosure than may be necessary.

(a), (b) and (c) - This statement is being filed by one or more of the following persons: GGCP, Inc.  (“GGCP”), GGCP Holdings LLC (“GGCP Holdings”), GAMCO Investors, Inc. (“GBL”), Associated Capital Group, Inc. (“AC”), Gabelli Funds, LLC (“Gabelli Funds”), GAMCO Asset Management Inc. (“GAMCO”), Teton Advisors, LLC (“Teton Advisors”), Keeley-Teton Advisors, LLC (“Keeley-Teton”), Gabelli & Company Investment Advisers, Inc. (“GCIA”), Morgan Group Holding Co., (“MGH”), G.research, LLC (“G.research”), MJG Associates, Inc. (“MJG Associates”), Gabelli Securities International (Bermuda) Limited (“GSIL”), Gabelli Foundation, Inc. (“Foundation”), Mario Gabelli, LICT and CIBL.  Those of the foregoing persons signing this Schedule 13D are hereinafter referred to as the “Reporting Persons”.

GGCP makes investments for its own account and is the manager and a member of GGCP Holdings which is the controlling shareholder of GBL and AC.  GBL, a public company whose stock is quoted on the OTCQX platform, is the parent company for a variety of companies engaged in the securities business, including certain of those named below.  AC, a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is the parent company for a variety of companies engaged in the securities business, including certain of those listed below.

GAMCO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GBL, is an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (“Advisers Act”).  GAMCO is an investment manager providing discretionary managed account services for employee benefit plans, private investors, endowments, foundations and others.

GCIA, a wholly owned subsidiary of AC, is an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act and serves as a general partner or investment manager to limited partnerships and offshore investment companies and other accounts.  As a part of its business, GCIA may purchase or sell securities for its own account.  GCIA or its relying advisers, act as a general partner or investment manager of a number of funds or partnerships, including Gabelli Associates Fund, L.P., Gabelli Associates Fund II, L.P., Gabelli Associates Limited, Gabelli Associates Limited II E, Gabelli Intermediate Credit Fund L.P., GAMA Select Plus Master Fund, Ltd., GAMCO Medical Opportunities L.P., and Gabelli Multimedia Partners, L.P.

G.research is a wholly owned subsidiary of MGH. G.research, is a broker-dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“1934 Act”), which may as a part of its business purchase and sell securities for its own account.

Gabelli Funds, a wholly owned subsidiary of GBL, is a limited liability company. Gabelli Funds is an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act which provides advisory services for The Gabelli Equity Trust Inc., The Gabelli Asset Fund, The Gabelli Growth Fund, The Gabelli Convertible and Income Securities Fund Inc., The Gabelli Value 25 Fund Inc., The Gabelli Small Cap Growth Fund, The Gabelli Equity Income Fund, The Gabelli ABC Fund, The Gabelli Global Content & Connectivity Fund, The Gabelli Gold Fund, Inc., The Gabelli Multimedia Trust Inc., The Gabelli Global Rising Income & Dividend Fund, The Gabelli Capital Asset Fund, The Gabelli International Growth Fund, Inc., The Gabelli Global Growth Fund, The Gabelli Utility Trust, The Gabelli Utilities Fund, The Gabelli Dividend Growth Fund, The Gabelli Focused Growth and Income Fund, The Comstock Capital Value Fund, The Gabelli Dividend and Income Trust, The Gabelli Global Utility & Income Trust, The GAMCO Global Gold, Natural Resources, & Income Trust, The GAMCO Natural Resources, Gold & Income Trust, The GDL Fund, Gabelli Enterprise Mergers & Acquisitions Fund, The Gabelli SRI Fund, Inc., The Gabelli International Small Cap Fund, The Gabelli Healthcare & Wellness ^Rx Trust, The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust, Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust Plc,  The Gabelli Global Financial Services Fund, The Gabelli Global Mini Mites Fund, The Gabelli Media Mogul Fund, The Gabelli Pet Parents’ Fund, The Gabelli U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund, Bancroft Fund Ltd. and Ellsworth Growth & Income Fund Ltd., Gabelli Growth Innovators ETF, Gabelli Love Our Planet & People ETF, Gabelli Automation ETF, Gabelli Commercial Aerospace & Defense ETF, Gabelli Financial Services Opportunities ETF (collectively, the “Funds”), which are registered investment companies.  Gabelli Funds is also the investment adviser to The GAMCO International SICAV (sub-funds GAMCO Merger Arbitrage and GAMCO All Cap Value), a UCITS III vehicle.

Teton Advisors, an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act, provides discretionary advisory services to The TETON Westwood Mighty Mites^sm Fund, The TETON Convertible Securities Fund, The Teton Westwood Balanced Fund, and The TETON Westwood  Equity Fund. The TETON Westwood Mighty Mites Fund and the Teton Convertible Securities Fund are subadvised by Gabelli Funds, and their holdings are included in this filing.

Keeley-Teton, an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act, provides discretionary advisory services to The Teton Westwood Smallcap Equity Fund, The Keeley Small Cap Dividend Value Fund, The Keeley Small-Mid Cap Value Fund, and The Keeley Mid Cap Dividend Value Fund, as well as to institutional and individual clients.

MJG Associates provides advisory services to private investment partnerships and offshore funds.  Mario Gabelli is the sole shareholder, director and employee of MJG Associates.   MJG Associates is the Investment Manager of Gabelli International Limited and Gabelli Fund, LDC.  Mario J. Gabelli is the general partner of Gabelli Performance Partnership, LP.

The Foundation is a private foundation.  Mario Gabelli is the Chairman, a Trustee and the Investment Manager of the Foundation. Elisa M. Wilson is the President of the Foundation.

LICT is a holding company with operating subsidiaries engaged primarily in the rural telephone industry. LICT actively pursues new business ventures and acquisitions. LICT makes investments in marketable securities to preserve capital and maintain liquidity for financing their business activities and acquisitions and are not engaged in the business of investing, or trading in securities. Mario J. Gabelli is the Chief Executive Officer, a director, and substantial shareholder of LICT.

CIBL is a holding company with interests in telecommunications operations, primarily in the rural telephone industry. CIBL actively pursues new business ventures and acquisitions. CIBL makes investments in marketable securities to preserve capital and maintain liquidity for financing their business activities and acquisitions and are not engaged in the business of investing, or trading in securities. Mario J. Gabelli is a director, and substantial shareholder of CIBL.

Mario Gabelli is the controlling stockholder, co-Chief Executive Officer and a director of GGCP and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GBL. He is the Executive Chairman of AC.  Mario Gabelli is also a member of GGCP Holdings. Mario Gabelli is the controlling shareholder of  MGH and indirectly of Teton Advisors and Keeley-Teton Advisors..

The Reporting Persons do not admit that they constitute a group.

GAMCO is a New York corporation and GBL and MGH are Delaware corporations, each having its principal business office at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580. GGCP is a Wyoming corporation and AC and GCIA are Delaware corporations each having its principal business office 191 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830.   GGCP Holdings is a Delaware limited liability corporation having its principal business office at 191 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830.  G.research is a Delaware limited liability company having its principal officers at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580.  Gabelli Funds is a New York limited liability company having its principal business office at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580.  Teton Advisors is a Delaware limited liability company having its principal place of business at 189 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830.  Keeley-Teton Advisors is a Delaware limited liability company having its principal place of business at 141 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. MJG Associates is a Connecticut corporation having its principal business office at 191 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830.  The Foundation is a Nevada corporation having its principal offices at 165 West Liberty Street, Reno, Nevada 89501.  LICT is a Delaware corporation having its principal place of business as 401 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Rye, New York 10580. CIBL, Inc. is a Delaware corporation having its principal place of business as 165 West Liberty Street, Suite 220, Reno, NV 89501.

For information required by instruction C to Schedule 13D with respect to the executive officers and directors of the foregoing entities and other related persons (collectively, “Covered Persons”), reference is made to Schedule I annexed hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

(d) – Not applicable.

(e) – Not applicable.

 (f) – Reference is made to Schedule I hereto.

Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration

The Reporting Persons used an aggregate of approximately $107,115,000 to purchase the Series M shares reported as beneficially owned in Item 5 in a private placement. GAMCO used approximately $4,000,000 of funds that were provided through the accounts of certain of its investment advisory clients (and, in the case of some of such accounts at GAMCO, may be through borrowings from client margin accounts) in order to purchase the Series M shares for such clients. AC used approximately $31,000,000 of its working capital to purchase the Series M shares reported by it. Foundation used approximately $19,000,000 of its funds to purchase the Series M shares reported by it. GGCP used approximately $15,000,000 of working capital to purchase the Series M shares reported by it. Mario Gabelli used approximately $32,115,000 of personal funds to purchase the Series M shares reported by him.  GBL used approximately $6,000,000 of working capital to purchase the Series M shares reported by it.

Item 4. Purpose of Transaction

                              Each of the Reporting Persons has purchased and holds the Securities reported by it for investment for one or more accounts over which it has shared, sole, or both investment and/or voting power, for its own account, or both.

Certain of the Reporting Persons are engaged in the business of securities analysis and investment. These persons and certain of their Affiliates engaged in such business, analyze the operations, capital structure and markets of companies in which they invest, including the Issuer, on a continuous basis through analysis of documentation and discussions with knowledgeable industry and market observers and with representatives of such companies (often at the invitation of management).  As a result of these analytical activities one or more of the such persons may issue analysts reports, participate in interviews or hold discussions with third parties or with management in which the such person may suggest or take a position with respect to potential changes in the operations, management or capital structure of such companies as a means of enhancing shareholder values.  Such suggestions or positions may relate to one or more of the transactions specified in clauses (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D including, without limitation, such matters as disposing of one or more businesses, selling the company or acquiring another company or business, changing operating or marketing strategies, adopting or not adopting, certain types of anti-takeover measures and restructuring the company’s capitalization or dividend policy.

Each Reporting Person will continuously assess the Issuer’s business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects, general economic conditions, the securities markets in general and those for the Issuer’s securities in particular, other developments and other investment opportunities, as well as the investment objectives and diversification requirements of its shareholders.

Each of the Covered Persons who is not a Reporting Person has purchased the Securities reported herein as beneficially owned by him for investment for his own account or that of one or more members of his immediate family.  Each such person may acquire additional Securities or dispose of some or all of the Securities reported herein with respect to him.

Other than as described above, none of the Reporting Persons and none of the Covered Persons who is not a Reporting Person has any present plans or proposals which relate to or would result in any transaction, change or event specified in clauses (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D.

Item 5. Interest In Securities Of The Issuer

(a) The aggregate number of Securities to which this Schedule 13D relates is 780,899 Common Shares representing 0.87% of the 89,213,241 Common Shares outstanding as reported by the Issuer and 10,711,500 Preferred Shares representing 47.44% of the 22,580,582 Preferred Shares outstanding as reported by the Issuer. The Reporting Persons beneficially own those Securities as follows:

                Mario Gabelli is deemed to have beneficial ownership of the Securities owned beneficially by each of the foregoing persons.  AC, GBL and GGCP are deemed to have beneficial ownership of the Securities owned beneficially by each of the foregoing persons other than Mario Gabelli and the Foundation.

(b) Each of the Reporting Persons and Covered Persons has the sole power to vote or direct the vote and sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of the Securities reported for it, either for its own benefit or for the benefit of its investment clients or its partners, as the case may be.

(c) Information with respect to all transactions in the Securities which were effected during the past sixty days or since the most recent filing on Schedule 13D, whichever is less, by each of the Reporting Persons and Covered Persons is set forth on Schedule II annexed hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

(d) None.

(e) Not applicable.

Item 7. Material to be Filed as an Exhibit

The following Exhibit A is attached hereto.  The following Exhibit B is incorporated by reference to Exhibit B in the Initial Schedule 13D of the Reporting Persons with respect to Lincare Holdings Inc.

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: October 18, 2024

GGCP, INC.

GABELLI FOUNDATION, INC.

MARIO J. GABELLI

By:/s/ David Goldman

     David Goldman

     Attorney-in-Fact

  GAMCO INVESTORS, INC.

By:/s/ Peter D. Goldstein 

     Peter D. Goldstein

                General Counsel – GAMCO Investors, Inc.

ASSOCIATED CAPITAL GROUP, INC.

GAMCO ASSET MANAGEMENT INC.

By:/s/ Douglas R. Jamieson 

     Douglas R. Jamieson

                    President & Chief Executive Officer – Associated Capital

Group, Inc.

      President – GAMCO Asset Management Inc.

      Schedule I

     Information with Respect to Executive

Schedule I to Schedule 13D is amended, in pertinent part, as follows:

SCHEDULE II

INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO

TRANSACTIONS EFFECTED DURING THE PAST SIXTY DAYS OR

SINCE THE MOST RECENT FILING ON SCHEDULE 13D

                                                                     SHARES PURCHASED        AVERAGE

                                                     DATE                  SOLD(-)                        PRICE

SERIES M PREFERRED SHARES- THE GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST

          GABELLI FOUNDATION, INC.

                                                     10/11/24              1,900,000                   10.0000

          GAMCO ASSET MANAGEMENT INC.  INC.

                                                    10/11/24                  400,000                   10.0000

          ASSOCIATED CAPITAL GROUP, INC.

                                                    10/11/24               3,100,000                   10.0000

          GGCP, INC.

                                                    10/11/24               1,500,000                   10.0000

          MARIO J. GABELLI

                                                    10/11/24               3,211,500                   10.0000

          GAMCO INVESTORS, INC.

                                                    10/11/24                  600,000                   10.0000

(1) THE TRANSACTIONS ON 10/11/24 WERE PART OF A PRIVATE PLACEMENT.

In accordance with Rule 13d-1(f) under the securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the undersigned hereby agree to the joint filing with all other Reporting Entities (as such term is defined in the Schedule 13D referred to below) on behalf of each of them of a statement on Schedule 13D (including amendments thereto) with respect to the Common Shares, 5.375% Series H Cumulative Preferred Shares, the Series J Cumulative Term Preferred Shares, the 4.250% Series K Cumulative Preferred Shares & the 4.80% Series M Cumulative Preferred Shares of The Gabelli Dividend & Income Trust and that this Agreement be included as an Exhibit to such joint filing.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereby execute this Agreement this October 18, 2024