Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF (NASDAQ:SQLV) Stock Short Interest Declines 82.4%

Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF (NASDAQ:SQLV) saw a significant decline in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totaling 5,276 shares, a decline of 82.4% from the September 15th total of 29,982 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 5,620 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.9 days. Approximately 0.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold.

Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF Price Performance

NASDAQ SQLV opened at $51.75 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $38.81 million, a PE ratio of 12.07 and a beta of 1.02. Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF has a one year low of $39.95 and a one year high of $55.30. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $53.30 and its 200 day simple moving average is $50.52.

Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, September 17th. Stockholders of record on Monday, September 14th were issued a dividend of $0.1520 per share. The ex-dividend date was Monday, September 14th. This is a boost from Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.1236. This represents a $0.61 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.2%.

Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF Company Profile

The Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF (SQLV) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in small-cap stocks. The fund is an actively managed fund that uses a multi-factor scoring system to select US small-cap stocks that are weighted based on fundamental composite scores. SQLV was launched on Jul 12, 2017 and is managed by Franklin Templeton.