Empirical Asset Management LLC Sells 16,837 Shares of Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF $VGLT

Empirical Asset Management LLC reduced its position in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:VGLT) by 64.4% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 9,298 shares of the company’s stock after selling 16,837 shares during the period. Empirical Asset Management LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF were worth $529,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC boosted its position in Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF by 7.9% during the 1st quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC now owns 5,719 shares of the company’s stock worth $329,000 after acquiring an additional 421 shares during the last quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF by 1.4% in the second quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 1,680,907 shares of the company’s stock worth $94,333,000 after purchasing an additional 22,636 shares in the last quarter. Bessemer Group Inc. boosted its holdings in Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF by 6,856.5% during the second quarter. Bessemer Group Inc. now owns 8,000 shares of the company’s stock worth $449,000 after purchasing an additional 7,885 shares during the last quarter. Transcend Capital Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF during the second quarter worth $247,000. Finally, Whalen Wealth Management Inc. bought a new position in Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF in the second quarter valued at $277,000.

Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF Stock Performance

Shares of VGLT stock opened at $57.32 on Thursday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $56.21 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $56.53. Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF has a 1 year low of $53.17 and a 1 year high of $59.46.

Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF Increases Dividend

The business also recently announced a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, February 4th. Investors of record on Monday, February 2nd were given a $0.2145 dividend. This is an increase from Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.21. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, February 2nd.

Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF Profile

Vanguard Long Term Government Bond ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted government bond index with a long-term, dollar-weighted average maturity. It employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Long Government Float Adjusted Index (the Index). This Index includes fixed-income securities issued by the United States Treasury (not including inflation-protected bonds) and the United States Government agencies and instrumentalities, as well as corporate or dollar-denominated foreign debt guaranteed by the United States Government, with maturities greater than 10 years.