iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF $TLT Position Lifted by Meridian Wealth Management LLC

Meridian Wealth Management LLC raised its stake in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) by 2.2% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 46,145 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after purchasing an additional 987 shares during the period. Meridian Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF were worth $4,072,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the stock. Empirical Asset Management LLC grew its stake in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 2.1% in the second quarter. Empirical Asset Management LLC now owns 5,737 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $506,000 after purchasing an additional 117 shares in the last quarter. Real Talk Capital LLC raised its stake in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 1.1% during the first quarter. Real Talk Capital LLC now owns 12,242 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,115,000 after buying an additional 129 shares in the last quarter. MassMutual Private Wealth & Trust FSB lifted its holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 38.4% during the 2nd quarter. MassMutual Private Wealth & Trust FSB now owns 465 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $41,000 after buying an additional 129 shares during the last quarter. Whittier Trust Co. grew its position in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 5.1% in the 2nd quarter. Whittier Trust Co. now owns 2,732 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $241,000 after acquiring an additional 133 shares in the last quarter. Finally, D.B. Root & Company LLC increased its holdings in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 2.4% in the 1st quarter. D.B. Root & Company LLC now owns 6,277 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $571,000 after acquiring an additional 150 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 73.33% of the company’s stock.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Trading Down 0.6%

TLT stock opened at $88.87 on Friday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $90.03 and its 200 day simple moving average is $87.78. iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF has a 12-month low of $83.29 and a 12-month high of $94.85. The firm has a market cap of $48.68 billion, a P/E ratio of -6.75 and a beta of 0.53.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a monthly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, November 6th. Stockholders of record on Monday, November 3rd were given a $0.3251 dividend. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.4%. The ex-dividend date was Monday, November 3rd. This is an increase from iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.31.

About iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

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.