Sanctuary Advisors LLC Reduces Stock Holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF $TLT

Sanctuary Advisors LLC cut its stake in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) by 24.4% during the 1st quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 184,439 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 59,684 shares during the period. Sanctuary Advisors LLC’s holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF were worth $15,989,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of TLT. Checchi Capital Advisers LLC boosted its stake in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 49.1% in the first quarter. Checchi Capital Advisers LLC now owns 171,613 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $14,877,000 after purchasing an additional 56,479 shares during the period. Nwam LLC lifted its holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 77.7% in the 1st quarter. Nwam LLC now owns 14,679 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $1,273,000 after buying an additional 6,419 shares in the last quarter. Milestones Private Investment Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 3.1% in the 1st quarter. Milestones Private Investment Advisors LLC now owns 49,480 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $4,289,000 after buying an additional 1,497 shares in the last quarter. Objective Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF in the 1st quarter valued at about $251,000. Finally, Bleakley Financial Group LLC acquired a new stake in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF during the first quarter valued at about $7,113,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 73.33% of the company’s stock.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ TLT opened at $84.21 on Friday. iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF has a 1 year low of $82.77 and a 1 year high of $92.18. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $85.31 and its 200-day simple moving average is $86.75. The firm has a market cap of $42.67 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.75 and a beta of 0.51.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, July 7th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, July 1st were paid a dividend of $0.318 per share. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.5%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, July 1st.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Company Profile

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of United States Treasury bonds with remaining maturities greater than 20 years. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Barclays U.S. 20+ 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 20 or more years. The Underlying Index includes all publicly-issued the United States Treasury securities that have a remaining maturity of greater than or equal to 20 years.