Affinity Capital Advisors LLC Has $2.07 Million Holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF $TLT

Affinity Capital Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) by 49.1% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 23,748 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after purchasing an additional 7,816 shares during the quarter. Affinity Capital Advisors LLC’s holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF were worth $2,070,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in TLT. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 84.9% in the 2nd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 7,909,435 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $698,008,000 after acquiring an additional 3,632,572 shares in the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. increased its position in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 6.6% in the second quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 40,525,707 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $3,576,394,000 after purchasing an additional 2,508,650 shares during the period. Assetmark Inc. increased its position in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 652.3% in the third quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 1,628,189 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $145,511,000 after purchasing an additional 1,411,767 shares during the period. Cibc World Market Inc. raised its stake in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 429.3% in the third quarter. Cibc World Market Inc. now owns 1,490,621 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $133,217,000 after purchasing an additional 1,208,976 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Prudential PLC raised its stake in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 104.9% in the third quarter. Prudential PLC now owns 1,046,620 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $93,536,000 after purchasing an additional 535,870 shares in the last quarter. 73.33% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Stock Down 1.9%

TLT opened at $85.83 on Monday. The stock has a market capitalization of $44.54 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.75 and a beta of 0.53. iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF has a twelve month low of $83.29 and a twelve month high of $94.09. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $88.22 and a 200 day simple moving average of $88.88.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Cuts Dividend

The company also recently declared a monthly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, March 5th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 2nd were issued a dividend of $0.3006 per share. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.2%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, March 2nd.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Profile

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of United States Treasury bonds with remaining maturities greater than 20 years. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Barclays U.S. 20+ Year Treasury Bond Index (the Underlying Index), which measures the performance of public obligations of the United States Treasury that have a remaining maturity of 20 or more years. The Underlying Index includes all publicly-issued the United States Treasury securities that have a remaining maturity of greater than or equal to 20 years.