Capital Investment Counsel LLC Raises Position in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF (NASDAQ:VGSH)

Capital Investment Counsel LLC raised its holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF (NASDAQ:VGSH) by 7.3% in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 62,361 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 4,234 shares during the quarter. Capital Investment Counsel LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF were worth $3,628,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors have also modified their holdings of VGSH. NewEdge Advisors LLC raised its position in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF by 319.1% in the 2nd quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 86,730 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,029,000 after purchasing an additional 66,034 shares in the last quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. raised its holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF by 166.8% in the second quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 619 shares of the company’s stock valued at $36,000 after acquiring an additional 387 shares in the last quarter. EP Wealth Advisors LLC raised its holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF by 10.5% in the second quarter. EP Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 10,833 shares of the company’s stock valued at $628,000 after acquiring an additional 1,029 shares in the last quarter. Advisory Alpha LLC grew its holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF by 1.9% during the 2nd quarter. Advisory Alpha LLC now owns 1,794,723 shares of the company’s stock worth $104,080,000 after acquiring an additional 33,724 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Custom Portfolio Group LLC increased its position in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF by 33.2% in the 2nd quarter. Custom Portfolio Group LLC now owns 82,326 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,406,000 after purchasing an additional 20,517 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF Price Performance

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF stock opened at $58.39 on Wednesday. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $58.23 and a 200-day simple moving average of $58.46. Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF has a 12-month low of $57.46 and a 12-month high of $59.13.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 27th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, December 24th were issued a dividend of $0.2006 per share. This is an increase from Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF’s previous dividend of $0.18. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, December 24th.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index 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.