Avior Wealth Management LLC Decreases Stake in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF $VGSH

Avior Wealth Management LLC lowered its position in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:VGSH) by 34.7% in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 51,350 shares of the company’s stock after selling 27,260 shares during the quarter. Avior Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF were worth $3,016,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Corient Private Wealth LLC increased its position in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 164.2% in the second quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 2,950,380 shares of the company’s stock valued at $173,423,000 after acquiring an additional 1,833,531 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 26.4% in the 2nd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 8,737,169 shares of the company’s stock worth $513,571,000 after buying an additional 1,827,364 shares during the period. Northern Trust Corp lifted its holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 20.9% in the 3rd quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 8,089,142 shares of the company’s stock worth $476,046,000 after buying an additional 1,396,444 shares during the period. Retirement Planning Group LLC grew its position in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 1,216.3% in the 3rd quarter. Retirement Planning Group LLC now owns 1,143,299 shares of the company’s stock worth $67,283,000 after buying an additional 1,056,439 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Penserra Capital Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 250.8% during the third quarter. Penserra Capital Management LLC now owns 1,266,655 shares of the company’s stock valued at $74,542,000 after buying an additional 905,529 shares during the period.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF Stock Down 0.2%

Shares of VGSH stock opened at $58.38 on Friday. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $58.73 and a 200 day moving average of $58.77. Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF has a 52 week low of $58.32 and a 52 week high of $59.01.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF Cuts Dividend

The company also recently announced a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 4th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 2nd were given a $0.1696 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, March 2nd. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.5%.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF Profile

Vanguard Short Term Government Bond ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted government bond index with a short-term, dollar-weighted average maturity. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. 1-3 Year Government Float Adjusted Index (the Index). This Index includes fixed-income securities issued by the United States Treasury (not including inflation-protected securities) and the United States Government agencies and instrumentalities, as well as corporate or dollar-denominated foreign debt guaranteed by the United States Government, all with maturities between 1 and 3 years.