GOF CEF — Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund

Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund (GOF)

Updated November 5, 2026.

GOF is a CEF. Its distribution rate is 24.39%, its trailing-12-month yield is 24.38%, its expense ratio is 1.643%. Dividend Vision Distribution Safety Score™ is 39/100 (Elevated risk). Total return is 349.3% over the past 19.3 years, 268.8 points behind SPY at 618.1%.

GOF performance versus SPY

As of Nov 5, 2026

Total return is 349.3% over the past 19.3 years, 268.8 points behind SPY at 618.1%. Over the past year its total return — price change plus distributions reinvested — is -17.1%. Its deepest 1-year drawdown was 25.2%.

GOF key facts

Distribution Safety Score™

39 · Elevated risk

Safety-Adjusted Yield

9.51%

Issuer

Guggenheim

Asset type

CEF

Asset class

Fixed Income

Inception date

07/26/2007

Expense ratio

1.643%

Distribution rate

24.39%

Distribution frequency

Monthly

Trailing yield

24.38%

5-year average yield

14.78

Last close

$8.96 (as of 2026-11-05)

NAV

$10.32

Premium / discount

Premium not shown · NAV date unknown

AUM

$2,032,200,000

Market cap

$2,002,091,904

Average volume

2,221,842

Dividend

$0.1821

Ex-dividend date

11/13/2026

Payment date

11/30/2026

Beta

0.651

How Dividend Vision calculates yield and returns

Distribution rate (24.39%) has no calculation basis on file. Issuer rates can use a different denominator and date, including ex-date NAV. Trailing-12-month yield (24.38%) is the sum of split-adjusted cash distributions with ex-dates in the last 12 months, divided by the published price. It lags a recent raise or cut. Total return uses split-adjusted close with distributions reinvested on the ex-dividend date (a modeling convention, not the cash-settlement date) from the first stored bar on or after inception through the latest bar, compared with the same window on the benchmark. That is the security's total return, not your personal gain/loss.

Yield and safety methodology · Distribution rate methodology · Distribution Safety Score methodology

Sources and review

Primary sources: Guggenheim or company page; prices and distributions from Dividend Vision, derived from vendor EOD data.

Reviewed by Bert Sweet, CEO and Co-owner of Dividend Vision. Methodology: Distribution Safety Score.

GOF risks and drawbacks

Total return has trailed SPY over the available window. The deepest 1-year drawdown on record here is 25.2%.

Who may consider GOF — and who may not

It is a weaker fit for investors whose main goal is matching SPY total return. This is educational context, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

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