Closed-end fund
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund (ETW)
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund trades as ETW on NYSE. This page collects what it has actually paid — every recorded payment, the calendar-year totals, the forward and trailing 12-month yields side by side against the last price, and the dates already declared.
Price as of Aug 25, 2026 (4 hours ago) · supplied by fmp. Quotes may be delayed. Verify with your broker before acting on anything here.
The two yields above are different measurements and are not interchangeable. The forward yield annualises the last regular payment; the trailing 12-month yield counts the cash actually paid over the last 365 days. Neither is an interest rate, a bond's yield to maturity or an index effective yield, and none of those may be compared with these as like for like. See how we compute these numbers.
Our stored payment history for ETW begins in 2005. There is no current run of increases to report: either the most recent complete calendar year did not pay more than the year before it, or there is no earlier complete year in our history to compare it with.
A yield is just a payment divided by a price, so it moves every day even when the payment does not. The forward number is an estimate of the next twelve months; the trailing number is what was actually paid over the last twelve. Ex-date is the cut-off: own the shares before it and the next payment is yours, buy on or after it and the seller keeps it.
What ETW is
The Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund (ETW) is structured as a closed-end equity investment vehicle. Its primary management responsibilities lie with Eaton Vance Management, with supplemental oversight from Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC. This fund allocates capital to publicly traded companies across international stock markets, seeking diversification across numerous industry sectors. A core aspect of its investment approach involves selling call options on various U.S. and foreign indices, covering a significant portion of its common stock assets. Established on September 30, 2005, and domiciled within the United States, the fund assesses its performance against several benchmarks, including the S&P 500 Index, the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index, the CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index, and the FTSE Eurotop 100 Index.
ETW is a closed-end fund. What it pays is a distribution, not interest, and that distinction matters. A distribution is whatever the fund passes through for the period — dividends and interest received from the holdings, realised capital gains, option premium where the strategy writes options, and sometimes return of capital. Only the year-end tax form breaks the payment into its parts.
Return of capital is your own money coming back. It is not taxed on receipt, but it reduces your cost basis, so the tax arrives later as a larger capital gain. A fund can therefore publish a steady-looking distribution rate while the net asset value drifts down underneath it. The distribution is set by the fund and can be changed at any time; it is never a coupon. Closed-end funds also trade at a premium or a discount to net asset value, so the price you pay and the assets you own are two different numbers.
Figures on this page are computed by Income Investing from the payment history and last price stored in our own database; the payment records come from fmp and the price from fmp, last recomputed Aug 25, 2026. They describe what has been paid, not what will be paid. Yield, payout ratio, our data sources and our methodology are explained elsewhere on the site.
Payment history
Each row is one payment as recorded by our data provider, newest first. The final column compares it with the nearest payment about a year earlier.
The table lists the 24 most recent recorded distributions for ETW, newest first, with ex-dates running from Sep 20, 2024 to Aug 14, 2026. The latest is $0.0664 per share in USD, ex-date Aug 14, 2026, pay date Aug 31, 2026. Measured against the nearest payment about a year earlier, 7 are higher, 0 lower and 17 unchanged; the remaining 0 have no comparable payment in the record. None is flagged as a special or one-off payment. Payment records supplied by fmp.
How to read this table: one row is one payment, newest at the top, and the amount is what a single share received on that one date. It is not an annual figure — the yearly ones are in the tiles above and in the totals further down. A row marked Special is a one-off the issuer chose to make rather than part of the regular schedule, which is why it is left out of the year-on-year comparison and out of those yearly totals. Whether the amount repeats for several rows or moves every time is a fact about the structure rather than a sign of health: a company usually resets its dividend once a year, while a fund's distribution can change with every payment.
| Ex-dateOwn it before this day and this payment is yours. | Pay date | Amount per shareWhat one share received on that date, before tax. | Cadence tagged by provider | Type | vs. a year earlier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| May 15, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Aug 15, 2025 | Aug 29, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Jul 31, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| May 15, 2025 | May 30, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Apr 30, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | +14.09% |
| Feb 14, 2025 | Feb 28, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | +14.09% |
| Jan 15, 2025 | Jan 31, 2025 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | +14.09% |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | +14.09% |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Nov 29, 2024 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | +14.09% |
| Oct 23, 2024 | Oct 31, 2024 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | +14.09% |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.0664 | Monthly | Regular | +14.09% |
The cadence column is the tag our provider attached to that individual payment (fmp), not the security's established schedule. The two can disagree, which is why the cadence shown in the tiles above is only accepted after three consecutive payments were tagged the same way.
A blank comparison means there was no comparable payment within sixty days of the same point a year earlier — a new payer, a changed cadence, or a gap in the record. Special and one-off payments are labelled and are excluded from the comparison.
Distributions by calendar year
Calendar-year totals, bucketed by ex-dividend date: every regular distribution whose ex-dividend date fell in that year, for the last ten complete years on record. These are amounts actually paid, never a forward estimate, and they are not the issuer's own annual distribution figure.
The chart covers 10 complete calendar years for ETW, 2016 to 2025, per share, in USD. Each bar totals the regular distributions with an ex-dividend date in that calendar year. The year is assigned by ex-dividend date, which is not necessarily the issuer's own distribution year. Our stored payment history for ETW begins in 2005. The total went from $1.17 in 2016 to $0.7968 in 2025 — 32% lower. Within that span 4 years were higher than the year before and 5 lower. The three most recent years shown are 2023 $0.6980, 2024 $0.7722 and 2025 $0.7968. The current year is still in progress and is left out, and special or one-off payments are excluded. This is a record of what was paid, not a projection. Every year shown holds the 12 distributions a monthly cadence implies, so no year on this chart is short or long because a payment shifted across a year end.
Each bar, and each row underneath it, is one calendar year of regular payments added together for a single share. Read left to right and you are reading whether the payment has grown, held or been cut — a record of what was paid, never a forecast of what will be. One thing to watch for: a year here is decided by the date the payment went ex, so when that date slips across a year end one year holds an extra payment and its neighbour is one short while the payment itself never moved. Any year where that has happened is drawn as a dashed bar and marked with an asterisk, and it is the usual reason these totals differ from the annual figure the issuer itself publishes.
| Year | Paid per share that yearEvery regular payment dated in that year, added up, for one share. | Payments in the yearA count that differs from the usual one means a payment moved across a year end. | Change on the year before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $1.17 | 12 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | $1.10 | 12 | -5.40% |
| 2018 | $1.09 | 12 | -1.14% |
| 2019 | $0.87 | 12 | -20.11% |
| 2020 | $0.87 | 12 | +0.14% |
| 2021 | $0.88 | 12 | +0.24% |
| 2022 | $0.85 | 12 | -3.39% |
| 2023 | $0.70 | 12 | -17.49% |
| 2024 | $0.77 | 12 | +10.63% |
| 2025 | $0.80 | 12 | +3.19% |
Similar securities
The eight closest closed-end fund entries by trailing 12-month yield, in the same sector. A research screen, not a recommendation.
These are not the best-paying securities of this kind, and no ranking is meant by the order. They are the ones whose trailing 12-month yield sits nearest to this one, in the same structure and usually the same sector, so that this security can be seen in company rather than on its own. Every figure here is backward-looking cash that has already been paid. A row that sits well away from the rest is a question to take to that security's own page, not an answer.
| Ticker | Name | Price | Trailing 12m yieldCash paid out over the last year, over today's price. | Paid over 12 months | Pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETY | Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund | $14.39 | 8.27% | $1.19 | Monthly |
| ETV | Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Buy-Write Opportunities Fund | $15.10 | 7.89% | $1.19 | Monthly |
| AWF | AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund | $10.18 | 7.72% | $0.79 | Monthly |
| BST | BlackRock Science and Technology Trust | $49.55 | 8.48% | $4.20 | Monthly |
| EOS | Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II | $21.44 | 8.52% | $1.83 | Monthly |
| HTD | John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund | $25.34 | 7.48% | $1.90 | Monthly |
| RQI | Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund, Inc. | $12.41 | 8.70% | $1.08 | Monthly |
| BDJ | BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust | $9.80 | 8.73% | $0.86 | Monthly |
Every row in this table is on the same basis — cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days, divided by that security's last price — so the column can be read down. Forward estimates are deliberately not used here, because they exist for some securities and not others and a mixed column would invite a comparison that does not hold. A dash means no payment was recorded in the last 365 days, or no price is on file. Open a security to see both of its yields.