iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF (BATS:LQDW) Sees Significant Drop in Short Interest

Posted by Linda Flegge on May 29th, 2026

iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF (BATS:LQDW – Get Free Report) saw a large decrease in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,471 shares, a decrease of 94.7% from the April 30th total of 46,462 shares. Currently, 0.0% of the company’s shares are sold short. Based on an average trading volume of 58,094 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.0 days.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF

Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Private Trust Co. NA lifted its holdings in shares of iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF by 107.1% in the 4th quarter. Private Trust Co. NA now owns 11,600 shares of the company’s stock worth $285,000 after buying an additional 6,000 shares during the period. Triumph Capital Management purchased a new stake in shares of iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF in the 3rd quarter worth $201,000. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC purchased a new stake in shares of iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF in the 1st quarter worth $410,000. Finally, Prime Capital Investment Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF by 6.3% in the 3rd quarter. Prime Capital Investment Advisors LLC now owns 335,819 shares of the company’s stock worth $8,486,000 after buying an additional 19,899 shares during the period.

iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF Stock Up 0.3%

Shares of iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF stock opened at $24.01 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $24.00 and its two-hundred day moving average is $24.42. iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF has a 52 week low of $23.60 and a 52 week high of $25.69.

About iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF

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The iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond Buywrite Strategy ETF (LQDW) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the CBOE LQD BuyWrite index. The fund uses a fund-of-fund approach to passively track an index that measures the performance of holding shares of the iShares iBoxx USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF and writes one-month call options against the shares. LQDW was launched on Aug 18, 2022 and is managed by BlackRock.