iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) Shares Sold by Guidance Capital Inc.

Guidance Capital Inc. cut its stake in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) by 72.5% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 6,491 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 17,081 shares during the quarter. Guidance Capital Inc.’s holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF were worth $577,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in TLT. Lebenthal Global Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 26.7% in the fourth quarter. Lebenthal Global Advisors LLC now owns 219,527 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $21,707,000 after purchasing an additional 46,237 shares in the last quarter. EQ LLC acquired a new position in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $2,642,000. AdvisorNet Financial Inc boosted its holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 25.9% in the fourth quarter. AdvisorNet Financial Inc now owns 14,161 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,400,000 after purchasing an additional 2,915 shares in the last quarter. Rosenberg Matthew Hamilton boosted its holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 8,825.0% in the fourth quarter. Rosenberg Matthew Hamilton now owns 357 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $35,000 after purchasing an additional 353 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Sapient Capital LLC acquired a new position in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $239,000. 73.32% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Stock Down 1.9 %

TLT traded down $1.74 on Friday, reaching $91.78. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 55,119,554 shares, compared to its average volume of 40,682,316. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $91.35 and a two-hundred day moving average of $93.46. The company has a market capitalization of $46.89 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -7.14 and a beta of 0.06. iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF has a fifty-two week low of $82.42 and a fifty-two week high of $103.25.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 7th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 3rd were issued a $0.3083 dividend. This represents a $3.70 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.03%. The ex-dividend date was Monday, June 3rd.

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.