iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (NASDAQ:EMB) Announces Dividend Increase – $0.46 Per Share

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (NASDAQ:EMB) declared a monthly dividend on Tuesday, March 31st, NASDAQ Dividends reports. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, April 1st will be given a dividend of 0.4554 per share by the exchange traded fund on Tuesday, April 7th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.8%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, April 1st. This is a 13.0% increase from iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.40.

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Stock Performance

NASDAQ EMB traded down $0.07 on Wednesday, reaching $93.86. The stock had a trading volume of 13,072,219 shares, compared to its average volume of 11,376,785. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $96.02 and a two-hundred day moving average of $96.02. iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF has a 1-year low of $84.78 and a 1-year high of $97.80.

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Company Profile

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF, formerly iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Fund (the Fund), is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the JPMorgan EMBI Global Core Index (the Index). The Index is a diverse United States dollar-denominated emerging markets debt benchmark, which tracks the total return of actively traded external debt instruments in emerging market countries. The Fund invests in a representative sample of the securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index.