Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCLT) Short Interest Update

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCLT) was the recipient of a significant increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,900,000 shares, an increase of 63.3% from the December 15th total of 3,000,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,437,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Trading Up 1.7 %

Shares of NASDAQ VCLT opened at $74.40 on Wednesday. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $76.46 and its 200-day moving average price is $78.08. Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF has a 52-week low of $72.86 and a 52-week high of $82.63.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 27th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 24th were paid a $0.3563 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, December 24th. This is an increase from Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF’s previous dividend of $0.34.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. PSI Advisors LLC lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 37.1% in the fourth quarter. PSI Advisors LLC now owns 599 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $45,000 after buying an additional 162 shares in the last quarter. NBC Securities Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 3.7% during the third quarter. NBC Securities Inc. now owns 4,950 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $402,000 after purchasing an additional 177 shares during the last quarter. 4Thought Financial Group Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 0.5% during the third quarter. 4Thought Financial Group Inc. now owns 45,414 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $3,689,000 after purchasing an additional 214 shares during the last quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 1.3% during the second quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 17,404 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,320,000 after purchasing an additional 217 shares during the last quarter. Finally, WestEnd Advisors LLC raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 27.6% during the third quarter. WestEnd Advisors LLC now owns 1,499 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $122,000 after purchasing an additional 324 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Company 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.