Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF $VGSH Shares Acquired by CENTRAL TRUST Co

CENTRAL TRUST Co increased its stake in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:VGSH) by 38.4% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 97,232 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 26,973 shares during the period. CENTRAL TRUST Co’s holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF were worth $5,692,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in VGSH. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its position in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 73.3% in the fourth quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 44,271,961 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,600,092,000 after buying an additional 18,721,366 shares during the period. Morgan Stanley boosted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 7.6% during the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 23,769,661 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,395,992,000 after acquiring an additional 1,685,710 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 13.3% during the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 9,899,709 shares of the company’s stock valued at $582,598,000 after acquiring an additional 1,162,540 shares during the period. Northern Trust Corp boosted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 4.2% during the fourth quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 8,425,375 shares of the company’s stock valued at $494,822,000 after acquiring an additional 336,233 shares during the period. Finally, Orgel Wealth Management LLC grew its position in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 7.4% during the fourth quarter. Orgel Wealth Management LLC now owns 8,078,817 shares of the company’s stock worth $474,469,000 after acquiring an additional 553,478 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF Stock Up 0.1%

VGSH stock opened at $58.10 on Wednesday. Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF has a fifty-two week low of $58.03 and a fifty-two week high of $59.01. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $58.28 and its 200 day simple moving average is $58.54.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF Cuts Dividend

The company also recently announced a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, June 3rd. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 1st were paid a dividend of $0.1845 per share. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.8%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, June 1st.

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.