UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-Q

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act File Number

 

811-21400

Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

The Eaton Vance Building,
255 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts

 

02109

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip code)

Alan R. Dynner, Esq.
Eaton Vance Management, 255 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code:

 

(617) 482-8260

Date of Fiscal Year End:

 

August 31

Date of Reporting Period:

 

November 30, 2005

 

 




Item 1. Schedule of Investments




Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund                                                          as of November 30, 2005

PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited)

Common Stocks — 102.0%

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Aerospace & Defense — 0.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Raytheon Co.

 

300,000

 

$

11,526,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

11,526,000

 

Apparel — 0.9%

 

 

 

 

 

VF Corp.

 

275,000

 

15,578,750

 

 

 

 

 

$

15,578,750

 

Beverages — 0.5%

 

 

 

 

 

Diageo PLC (1)

 

609,200

 

8,772,345

 

 

 

 

 

$

8,772,345

 

Building Materials — 1.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Stanley Works (The)

 

400,000

 

19,200,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

19,200,000

 

Chemicals — 1.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Dow Chemical Co. (The)

 

400,000

 

18,100,000

 

Lyondell Chemical Co.

 

500,000

 

12,715,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

30,815,000

 

Coal — 1.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Fording Canadian Coal Trust (1)

 

255,000

 

10,108,200

 

Peabody Energy Corp.

 

250,000

 

19,715,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

29,823,200

 

Commercial Banks — 12.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Associated Banc-Corp.

 

300,000

 

9,834,000

 

Bank of Hawaii Corp.

 

150,000

 

7,741,500

 

Bank of Montreal (1)

 

179,000

 

9,612,300

 

Bank of Nova Scotia (1)

 

664,000

 

25,490,960

 

BB&T Corp.

 

498,000

 

21,189,900

 

BNP Paribas SA (1)

 

325,000

 

25,609,171

 

Comerica, Inc.

 

150,000

 

8,650,500

 

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

 

70,926

 

5,159,157

 

U.S. Bancorp

 

1,007,000

 

30,491,960

 

Wachovia Corp.

 

900,000

 

48,060,000

 

Washington Mutual, Inc.

 

600,000

 

24,714,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

216,553,448

 

1




 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies — 1.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Certegy, Inc.

 

110,200

 

$

4,431,142

 

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.

 

450,000

 

15,390,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

19,821,142

 

Distributors — 0.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Genuine Parts Co.

 

250,000

 

11,077,500

 

 

 

 

 

$

11,077,500

 

Diversified Financial Services — 9.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Bank of America Corp.

 

850,000

 

39,006,500

 

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (1)

 

510,000

 

32,815,797

 

Citigroup, Inc.

 

1,172,700

 

56,934,585

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

 

256,400

 

9,807,300

 

Societe Generale (1)

 

180,000

 

21,344,151

 

 

 

 

 

$

159,908,333

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services — 9.9%

 

 

 

 

 

ALLTEL Corp.

 

50,000

 

3,341,500

 

AT&T, Inc.

 

1,849,648

 

46,074,727

 

BellSouth Corp.

 

550,000

 

14,993,000

 

BT Group PLC (1)

 

6,250,000

 

22,988,061

 

MCI, Inc.

 

625,000

 

12,412,500

 

Sprint Nextel Corp.

 

900,000

 

22,536,000

 

TDC A/S (1)

 

250,000

 

14,975,806

 

Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. (1)

 

300,000

 

1,219,784

 

Telefonos de Mexico SA de CV ADR (1)

 

1,700,000

 

38,131,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

176,672,378

 

Electrical / Electronic Manufacturer — 2.3%

 

 

 

 

 

Cooper Industries, Ltd., Class A (1)

 

225,000

 

16,366,500

 

Emerson Electric Co.

 

150,000

 

11,341,500

 

Nokia Oyj ADR (1)

 

750,000

 

12,810,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

40,518,000

 

Food Products — 0.5%

 

 

 

 

 

General Mills, Inc.

 

190,000

 

9,030,700

 

 

 

 

 

$

9,030,700

 

2




 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure — 1.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.

 

250,000

 

$

17,022,500

 

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

 

130,000

 

7,865,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

24,887,500

 

Household Products — 0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

 

135,000

 

7,962,300

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,962,300

 

Industrial Conglomerates — 1.5%

 

 

 

 

 

General Electric Co.

 

450,000

 

16,074,000

 

Honeywell International, Inc.

 

300,000

 

10,962,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

27,036,000

 

Insurance — 1.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Allstate Corp. (The)

 

200,000

 

11,220,000

 

Mercury General Corp.

 

75,000

 

4,447,500

 

PartnerRe Ltd. (1)

 

66,000

 

4,506,480

 

 

 

 

 

$

20,173,980

 

Machinery — 1.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Caterpillar, Inc.

 

350,000

 

20,223,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

20,223,000

 

Metals and Mining — 2.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Cia Vale do Rio Doce ADR (1)

 

487,500

 

21,138,000

 

Phelps Dodge Corp.

 

157,900

 

21,422,293

 

Worthington Industries, Inc.

 

250,000

 

5,072,500

 

 

 

 

 

$

47,632,793

 

Oil and Gas — 20.7%

 

 

 

 

 

BP PLC ADR (1)

 

800,000

 

52,672,000

 

Chevron Corp.

 

900,000

 

51,579,000

 

ConocoPhillips

 

1,089,100

 

65,901,441

 

ENI SPA (1)

 

1,000,000

 

27,095,304

 

GlobalSantaFe Corp. (1)

 

450,000

 

20,412,000

 

Husky Energy, Inc. (1)

 

386,000

 

18,527,868

 

Marathon Oil Corp.

 

1,000,000

 

59,290,000

 

Neste Oil Oyj (1)(2)

 

300,000

 

8,729,476

 

Noble Corp.

 

217,650

 

15,686,036

 

Norsk Hydro ASA (1)

 

200,000

 

19,989,651

 

Statoil ASA (1)

 

475,000

 

10,343,713

 

Total SA (1)

 

69,000

 

17,214,204

 

 

 

 

 

$

367,440,693

 

3




 

 

 

Paper and Forest Products — 0.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Weyerhaeuser Co.

 

59,000

 

$

3,912,290

 

 

 

 

 

$

3,912,290

 

Pharmaceuticals — 0.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Wyeth

 

365,000

 

15,169,400

 

 

 

 

 

$

15,169,400

 

REITS — 1.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Boston Properties, Inc.

 

261,600

 

19,674,936

 

 

 

 

 

$

19,674,936

 

Restaurants — 1.3%

 

 

 

 

 

McDonald’s Corp.

 

678,800

 

22,977,380

 

 

 

 

 

$

22,977,380

 

Retail - Specialty and Apparel — 0.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Limited, Inc. (The)

 

500,000

 

11,125,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

11,125,000

 

Savings & Loans — 1.9%

 

 

 

 

 

IndyMac Bancorp, Inc.

 

903,111

 

34,571,089

 

 

 

 

 

$

34,571,089

 

Tobacco — 4.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Altria Group, Inc.

 

900,000

 

65,511,000

 

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (1)

 

619,900

 

18,401,741

 

 

 

 

 

$

83,912,741

 

Utilities - Electric — 4.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Enel SPA (1)

 

1,000,000

 

7,875,596

 

National Grid PLC (1)(3)

 

4,500,000

 

0

 

National Grid PLC (1)

 

3,071,424

 

28,381,755

 

Scottish Power PLC (1)

 

4,100,000

 

37,590,595

 

 

 

 

 

$

73,847,946

 

Utilities - Integrated — 15.0%

 

 

 

 

 

E.ON AG (1)

 

500,000

 

47,547,692

 

Edison International

 

1,500,000

 

67,680,000

 

Entergy Corp.

 

50,000

 

3,500,000

 

Exelon Corp.

 

75,000

 

3,903,000

 

FirstEnergy Corp.

 

350,000

 

16,436,000

 

Fortum Oyj (1)

 

1,200,000

 

21,055,155

 

FPL Group, Inc.

 

500,000

 

21,195,000

 

RWE AG (1)

 

800,000

 

55,239,622

 

SCANA Corp.

 

200,000

 

7,924,000

 

Sempra Energy

 

500,000

 

21,975,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

266,455,469

 

4




 

 

 

Water Utilities — 1.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Severn Trent PLC (1)

 

1,000,000

 

$

17,329,297

 

 

 

 

 

$

17,329,297

 

Total Common Stocks
(identified cost $1,388,673,095)

 

 

 

$

1,813,628,610

 

 

Preferred Stocks — 36.2%

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Commercial Banks — 12.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Abbey National Capital Trust I, 8.963% (1)(3)(4)

 

20,000

 

$

2,748,936

 

Abbey National PLC, 7.375% (1)

 

390,200

 

9,965,708

 

ABN AMRO Capital Funding Trust VII, 6.08% (1)

 

103,000

 

2,460,670

 

ABN AMRO North America Capital Funding Trust, 6.968% (1)(5)

 

1,250

 

1,338,281

 

Barclays Bank PLC, 6.86% (1)(3)(4)(5)

 

35,000

 

3,895,720

 

Barclays Bank PLC, 8.55% (1)(3)(4)(5)

 

141,000

 

16,852,503

 

BNP Paribas Capital Trust, 9.003% (1)(3)(4)(5)

 

123,950

 

14,849,545

 

CA Preferred Fund Trust II, 7.00% (1)(3)

 

50,000

 

5,120,250

 

CA Preferred Fund Trust, 7.00% (1)(3)

 

255,000

 

26,047,434

 

Cobank, ABC, 7.00% (5)

 

400,000

 

20,214,800

 

Den Norske Bank, 7.729% (1)(3)(4)(5)

 

160,000

 

18,387,776

 

First Republic Bank, 6.70%

 

576,700

 

14,330,995

 

First Tennessee Bank, 4.96% (4)(5)

 

9,000

 

9,002,250

 

HSBC Capital Funding LP, 9.547% (1)(3)(4)(5)

 

205,000

 

24,830,953

 

HSBC Holdings PLC, 6.20% (1)

 

100,000

 

2,392,000

 

Lloyds TSB Bank PLC, 6.90% (1)(3)

 

110,000

 

11,146,718

 

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, 8.10% (1)

 

31,000

 

812,820

 

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, 9.118% (1)(3)

 

256,250

 

29,819,915

 

Standard Chartered PLC, 8.90% (1)(3)

 

18,000

 

2,008,856

 

 

 

 

 

$

216,226,130

 

Diversified Financial Services — 2.8%

 

 

 

 

 

BBVA Preferred Capital Ltd., 7.75% (1)

 

252,300

 

6,519,432

 

Prudential PLC, 6.50% (1)(3)

 

265,000

 

26,310,446

 

UBS Preferred Funding Trust I, 8.622% (1)(3)(4)

 

150,000

 

17,375,190

 

 

 

 

 

$

50,205,068

 

5




 

 

 

Food Products — 1.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Dairy Farmers of America, 7.875% (5)

 

220,000

 

$

21,889,032

 

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., 6.25% (5)

 

47,500

 

3,878,674

 

 

 

 

 

$

25,767,706

 

Insurance — 7.0%

 

 

 

 

 

ACE Ltd., 7.80% (1)

 

592,775

 

15,572,199

 

AXA, 7.10% (1)(3)

 

200,000

 

20,396,500

 

Endurance Specialty Holdings, Ltd., 7.75% (1)

 

277,500

 

6,618,375

 

ING Capital Funding Trust III, 8.439% (1)(3)(4)

 

105,750

 

12,393,731

 

ING Groep NV, 6.125% (1)

 

325,000

 

7,845,500

 

ING Groep NV, 7.20% (1)

 

473,155

 

12,112,768

 

MetLife, Inc., 4.87% (4)

 

240,000

 

6,177,600

 

PartnerRe Ltd., 6.50% (1)

 

200,000

 

4,708,000

 

PartnerRe Ltd., 6.75% (1)

 

98,200

 

2,346,980

 

RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., 6.08% (1)

 

215,600

 

4,350,808

 

XL Capital Ltd., 7.625% (1)

 

356,140

 

9,003,219

 

XL Capital Ltd., Series A, 8.00% (1)

 

142,765

 

3,704,752

 

Zurich Regcaps Fund Trust I, 6.58% (1)(5)

 

6,000

 

6,326,250

 

Zurich Regcaps Fund Trust VI, 5.05% (1)(4)(5)

 

12,500

 

12,398,438

 

 

 

 

 

$

123,955,120

 

REITS — 10.2%

 

 

 

 

 

AMB Property Corp., 6.75%

 

426,000

 

10,437,000

 

Colonial Properties Trust, 8.125%

 

577,000

 

14,667,340

 

Developers Diversified Realty Corp., 7.35%

 

160,000

 

4,032,000

 

Developers Diversified Realty Corp., 8.00%

 

250,000

 

6,325,000

 

Federal Realty Investment, 8.50%

 

50,000

 

1,287,500

 

Health Care REIT, Inc., 7.875%

 

170,100

 

4,320,540

 

Prologis Trust, 6.75%

 

1,500,000

 

37,305,000

 

PS Business Parks, Inc., 7.00%

 

400,000

 

9,720,000

 

PS Business Parks, Inc., 7.95%

 

400,000

 

10,420,000

 

Public Storage, Inc., 6.85%

 

1,600,000

 

39,850,080

 

Regency Centers Corp., 7.45%

 

45,000

 

1,135,350

 

Shurgard Storage Centers, 8.75%

 

20,000

 

503,800

 

Vornado Realty Trust, 7.00%

 

1,600,000

 

40,700,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

180,703,610

 

U.S. Government Agency Debentures — 1.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Federal National Mortgage Association, Series K, 5.396%

 

90,000

 

4,518,000

 

Federal National Mortgage Association, Series O, 7.00%

 

230,000

 

12,757,824

 

 

 

 

 

$

17,275,824

 

6




 

 

 

Utilities - Electric — 0.3%

 

 

 

 

 

Interstate Power & Light Co., 7.10%

 

181,400

 

$

4,816,170

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,816,170

 

Utilities - Gas — 1.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Southern Union Co., 7.55%

 

965,000

 

25,765,500

 

 

 

 

 

$

25,765,500

 

Total Preferred Stocks
(identified cost $653,878,637)

 

 

 

$

644,715,128

 

 

Commercial Paper — 0.5%

 

 

Principal

 

 

 

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

Security

 

(000’s omitted)

 

Value

 

General Electric Co., 4.03%, 12/1/05

 

$

9,221

 

$

9,221,000

 

Total Commercial Paper
(at amortized cost, $9,221,000)

 

 

 

$

9,221,000

 

 

Short-Term Investments — 0.2%

 

 

Principal

 

 

 

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

Security

 

(000’s omitted)

 

Value

 

Investors Bank and Trust Company, Time Deposit, 4.04%, 12/1/05

 

$

4,000

 

$

4,000,000

 

Total Short-Term Investments
(at amortized cost, $4,000,000)

 

 

 

$

4,000,000

 

Total Investments — 138.9%
(identified cost $2,055,772,732)

 

 

 

$

2,471,564,738

 

Other Assets, Less Liabilities — 0.5%

 

 

 

$

7,955,229

 

Auction Preferred Shares Plus Cumulative Unpaid
Dividends — (39.4)%

 

 

 

$

(700,446,750

)

Net Assets Applicable to Common Shares — 100.0%

 

 

 

$

1,779,073,217

 

 

ADR

American Depository Receipt

(1)

 

Foreign security.

(2)

 

Non-income producing security.

(3)

 

Security valued at fair value using methods determined in good faith by or at the direction of the Trustees.

(4)

 

Variable rate security. The stated interest rate represents the rate in effect at November 30, 2005.

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(5)

 

Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At November 30, 2005, the aggregate value of the securities is $153,864,222 or 8.6% of the Fund’s net assets.

 

Country Concentration of Portfolio

 

 

Percentage

 

 

 

Country

 

of Total Investments

 

Value

 

United States

 

59.82

%

$

1,478,360,122

 

United Kingdom

 

12.82

%

316,920,369

 

France

 

5.28

%

130,581,254

 

Germany

 

4.16

%

102,787,314

 

Canada

 

3.91

%

96,555,125

 

Norway

 

1.97

%

48,721,140

 

Finland

 

1.72

%

42,594,632

 

Bermuda

 

1.57

%

38,897,143

 

Mexico

 

1.54

%

38,131,000

 

Switzerland

 

1.46

%

36,099,878

 

Italy

 

1.42

%

34,970,900

 

Netherlands

 

1.41

%

34,812,669

 

Cayman Islands

 

1.40

%

34,799,602

 

Brazil

 

0.86

%

21,138,000

 

Denmark

 

0.61

%

14,975,806

 

New Zealand

 

0.05

%

1,219,784

 

Total

 

100.00

%

$

2,471,564,738

 

 

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The Fund did not have any open financial instruments at November 30, 2005.

The cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in value of the investments owned by the Fund at November 30, 2005, as computed on a federal income tax basis, were as follows:

Aggregate cost

 

$

2,055,772,732

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

 

$

435,696,445

 

Gross unrealized depreciation

 

(19,904,439

)

Net unrealized appreciation

 

$

415,792,006

 

 

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Item 2. Controls and Procedures

(a) It is the conclusion of the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer that the effectiveness of the registrant’s current disclosure controls and procedures (such disclosure controls and procedures having been evaluated within 90 days of the date of this filing) provide reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed by the registrant on this Form N-Q has been recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time period specified in the Commission’s rules and forms and that the information required to be disclosed by the registrant on this Form N-Q has been accumulated and communicated to the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer in order to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

(b) There have been no changes in the registrant’s internal controls over financial reporting during the fiscal quarter for which the report is being filed that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.




Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund

By:

 

/s/ Thomas E. Faust Jr.

 

 

Thomas E. Faust Jr.

 

 

President and Principal Executive Officer

Date:

 

January 24, 2006

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

By:

 

/s/ Thomas E. Faust Jr.

 

 

Thomas E. Faust Jr.

 

 

President and Principal Executive Officer

Date:

 

January 24, 2006

By:

 

/s/ Barbara E. Campbell

 

 

Barbara E. Campbell

 

 

Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer

Date:

 

January 24, 2006