Blue Trust Inc. Increases Stock Holdings in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCLT)

Blue Trust Inc. increased its holdings in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCLT) by 530.9% in the second quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 16,560 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after acquiring an additional 13,935 shares during the quarter. Blue Trust Inc.’s holdings in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF were worth $1,295,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in VCLT. Chesapeake Capital Corp IL purchased a new position in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF during the fourth quarter valued at $1,564,000. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. lifted its position in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 32.8% during the fourth quarter. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. now owns 44,645 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $3,578,000 after buying an additional 11,017 shares during the period. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. lifted its position in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 1.3% during the fourth quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. now owns 89,396 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $7,165,000 after buying an additional 1,116 shares during the period. Onyx Bridge Wealth Group LLC lifted its position in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 30.0% during the fourth quarter. Onyx Bridge Wealth Group LLC now owns 13,268 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,063,000 after buying an additional 3,065 shares during the period. Finally, Francis Financial Inc. lifted its position in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 433.0% during the first quarter. Francis Financial Inc. now owns 139,107 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $10,882,000 after buying an additional 113,007 shares during the period.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Stock Performance

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF stock traded up $0.31 on Friday, hitting $79.73. 2,253,177 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,281,530. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $77.33 and its 200 day simple moving average is $76.81. Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF has a 1 year low of $67.47 and a 1 year high of $81.11.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a monthly dividend, which was paid on Monday, August 5th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, August 1st were given a $0.3108 dividend. This represents a $3.73 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.68%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, August 1st. This is a positive change from Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.29.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF 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.