Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management Grows Position in Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF $BSV

Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management grew its holdings in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:BSV) by 42.6% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 47,385 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 14,165 shares during the quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management’s holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF were worth $3,734,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of BSV. Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV increased its holdings in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF by 11.1% in the 3rd quarter. Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV now owns 37,853,211 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,986,997,000 after buying an additional 3,776,279 shares during the last quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC raised its position in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF by 79.5% during the 2nd quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 5,928,304 shares of the company’s stock valued at $448,360,000 after buying an additional 2,624,848 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF by 23.1% during the 3rd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 9,197,184 shares of the company’s stock worth $725,750,000 after acquiring an additional 1,728,431 shares during the last quarter. Northern Trust Corp grew its position in Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF by 8.8% in the third quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 10,810,141 shares of the company’s stock worth $853,028,000 after acquiring an additional 874,382 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Captrust Financial Advisors grew its position in Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF by 9.6% in the third quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 5,902,832 shares of the company’s stock worth $465,792,000 after acquiring an additional 519,387 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF Price Performance

BSV opened at $78.22 on Friday. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $78.70 and its 200 day simple moving average is $78.82. Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF has a 52 week low of $77.59 and a 52 week high of $79.32.

Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF Cuts Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 4th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 2nd were given a dividend of $0.2415 per share. The ex-dividend date was Monday, March 2nd. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.7%.

Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF Company Profile

Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted bond index with a short-term, dollar-weighted average maturity. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing strategy designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. 1-5 Year Government/Credit Bond Index (the Index). The Index includes all medium and larger issues of the United States Government, investment-grade corporate, and investment-grade international dollar-denominated bonds that have maturities of between 1 and 5 years and are publicly issued.