Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management Buys 43,422 Shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF $VGSH

Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management boosted its stake in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:VGSH) by 3.9% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 1,150,169 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 43,422 shares during the quarter. Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF makes up approximately 1.2% of Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management’s portfolio, making the stock its 14th biggest position. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management’s holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF were worth $67,331,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. HighMark Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF in the fourth quarter valued at about $28,000. First Pacific Financial acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF in the first quarter worth approximately $28,000. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 990.9% in the third quarter. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. now owns 480 shares of the company’s stock worth $28,000 after acquiring an additional 436 shares during the period. UMB Bank n.a. bought a new stake in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Finally, Holos Integrated Wealth LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $29,000.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF Price Performance

NASDAQ:VGSH opened at $57.99 on Tuesday. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $58.17 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $58.48. Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF has a fifty-two week low of $57.98 and a fifty-two week high of $59.01.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF Cuts Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Monday, July 6th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, July 1st were paid a $0.1779 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, July 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.