Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF $VCLT Stake Boosted by Cetera Investment Advisers

Cetera Investment Advisers lifted its stake in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCLT) by 8.0% during the first quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund owned 224,815 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after purchasing an additional 16,715 shares during the quarter. Cetera Investment Advisers’ holdings in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF were worth $16,798,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. State of Tennessee Department of Treasury grew its stake in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 8.2% in the fourth quarter. State of Tennessee Department of Treasury now owns 3,112,025 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $237,167,000 after purchasing an additional 235,758 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 14.2% during the 3rd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 2,728,943 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $211,902,000 after buying an additional 339,785 shares during the last quarter. Allianz SE bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $183,255,000. Wells Fargo & Company MN increased its holdings in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 3.5% in the fourth quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 1,719,661 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $130,436,000 after buying an additional 57,497 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Northwestern Mutual Investment Management Company LLC increased its holdings in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 4.2% in the fourth quarter. Northwestern Mutual Investment Management Company LLC now owns 1,265,890 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $96,018,000 after buying an additional 51,600 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Stock Up 0.5%

Shares of VCLT opened at $72.82 on Wednesday. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $74.41 and its 200 day moving average price is $75.19. Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF has a twelve month low of $72.08 and a twelve month high of $79.28.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a monthly dividend, which was paid on Monday, July 6th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, July 1st were given a $0.3422 dividend. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 5.6%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, July 1st.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Profile

Vanguard Long Term Corporate Bond ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted corporate bond index with a long-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. 10+ Year Corporate Index (the Index). This index includes the United States dollar-denominated, investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable securities issued by industrial, utility and financial companies, with maturities greater than 10 years.