Insider Selling: Inverse VIX Short Term Futures ETN (NYSEARCA:VYLD) COO Sells 9,136 Shares of Stock

Inverse VIX Short Term Futures ETN (NYSEARCA:VYLD) COO Jennifer Piepszak sold 9,136 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, April 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $306.56, for a total value of $2,800,732.16. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief operating officer owned 90,001 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $27,590,706.56. This trade represents a 9.22% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Jennifer Piepszak also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Friday, January 16th, Jennifer Piepszak sold 8,571 shares of Inverse VIX Short Term Futures ETN stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $312.79, for a total value of $2,680,923.09.

Inverse VIX Short Term Futures ETN Price Performance

VYLD stock traded down $0.01 during midday trading on Wednesday, reaching $27.88. The stock had a trading volume of 456 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,292. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $27.43. Inverse VIX Short Term Futures ETN has a 52-week low of $22.19 and a 52-week high of $28.49.

Vanguard S&P 500 Covered Call ETF (NYSEARCA: VYLD) is an exchange-traded fund managed by Vanguard that combines broad exposure to large-cap U.S. equities with an options overlay designed to generate incremental income. The fund holds a portfolio intended to approximate the performance of the S&P 500 and implements a covered‑call (buy‑write) strategy, selling call options against the equity exposure to capture option premiums. This approach seeks to provide higher income than a plain‑vanilla S&P 500 index fund while maintaining substantial participation in the U.S.