iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF $IEF Shares Sold by Guidance Capital Inc.

Guidance Capital Inc. lowered its holdings in iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:IEF) by 60.9% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 4,177 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 6,511 shares during the period. Guidance Capital Inc.’s holdings in iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF were worth $400,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the business. Fisher Asset Management LLC grew its stake in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 52.1% in the 3rd quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 87,662,438 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $8,455,919,000 after purchasing an additional 30,011,547 shares during the last quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. grew its stake in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 28.2% in the 3rd quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 14,950,581 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $1,443,272,000 after purchasing an additional 3,291,267 shares during the last quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. grew its stake in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 3.0% in the 3rd quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 12,820,353 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $1,236,651,000 after purchasing an additional 375,479 shares during the last quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors grew its stake in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 5.2% in the 2nd quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 9,991,736 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $956,908,000 after purchasing an additional 495,772 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Raymond James Financial Inc. grew its stake in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 4.9% in the 3rd quarter. Raymond James Financial Inc. now owns 6,175,024 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $595,643,000 after purchasing an additional 290,351 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 81.48% of the company’s stock.

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF Price Performance

Shares of IEF opened at $95.58 on Thursday. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $96.11 and its 200-day moving average is $96.40. The stock has a market capitalization of $49.51 billion, a P/E ratio of -22.00 and a beta of 0.28. iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF has a 12-month low of $93.03 and a 12-month high of $98.04.

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF Increases Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, April 7th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, April 1st were paid a $0.3172 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, April 1st. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.0%. This is an increase from iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.28.

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF Profile

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (the Fund) is an is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of the United States Treasury bonds with remaining maturities between seven and ten years. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Barclays U.S. 7-10 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 greater than or equal to seven years and less than ten years.