BALTIMORE, Aug. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc. (NYSE: ADX) has determined that $21.29 per share is the issue price for the Fund’s third quarter distribution to shareholders. This price is the mean between the high and low sales prices of the Fund’s stock on the New York Stock Exchange on August 21, 2024, the valuation date.

The shares of common stock will be issued in connection with payment of the $0.44 third quarter distribution, the first distribution paid pursuant to the Fund’s new managed distribution policy. The policy commits to pay a minimum 8% annual rate of average net asset value (“NAV”) distributed evenly at 2% of average NAV per quarter, with the fourth quarter distribution to be the greater of 2% of average NAV or the amount needed to satisfy minimum distribution requirements of the Internal Revenue Code for regulated investment companies. Average NAV is based on the average of the previous four quarter-end NAVs per share prior to each declaration date.

The Fund’s estimated sources for the distribution to be paid on August 30, 2024 and for all distributions declared in 2024 to date are as follows:

Fund Performance and Distribution Rate Information:

¹ Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a Fund share at the beginning of the period and a sale on the last day of the period at reported net asset value per share, excluding any brokerage commissions. Distributions are assumed to be reinvested at the price received in the Fund’s dividend reinvestment plan. For periods greater than one year, returns are presented on an annualized basis.

² The annualized Current Distribution Rate is the current quarter’s distribution rate per share annualized and expressed as a percentage of the Fund’s NAV per share as of July 31, 2024.

³ The Cumulative Fiscal Year Distribution Rate is the distributions per share for the fiscal year period (January 1, 2024 to July 31, 2024), expressed as a percentage of the Fund’s NAV per share as of July 31, 2024.