The net asset value (NAV) per share at the financial year end was 240.1p, up from the previous year's figure of 179.3p. The share price rose by 30.8 per cent to 219.0p in the period, reflecting a slight widening in the discount from 6.6 per cent to 8.8 per cent.
The fund was trading at a discount of five per cent on 15 October, according to Trustnet.
Performance vs sector to end of financial year
Source: Financial Express Analytics
Financial Express data shows the trust outperforming its IT Asia Pacific Excluding Japan sector by five per cent in the period, while taking on a similar amount of risk.
"This fund has performed well for some time, and the latest results indicate it is set to continue," said Simon Elliott, investment trust analyst at Winterflood.
"The big bets the Aberdeen team have made in Edinburgh Dragon are their underweight position on China, and their overweight view on India. It's paid off, as Chinese equities seem to have been amongst the less exciting equity performers," he added.
Going forwards, the company's chairman Allan McKenzie said: "Asian stock markets are likely to remain volatile in the short term...because fund flows into Asia remain very much linked to what is happening in Western financial markets."
He added: "That said, Asia is not encumbered by the same structural problems as the debt-laden developed world. After a decade of austerity, large reserves of foreign exchange and solid fiscal foundations give policymakers a panoply of options."