Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (NYSEARCA:EDV) Short Interest Update

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (NYSEARCA:EDV) was the recipient of a significant decrease in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 614,679 shares, a decrease of 33.9% from the April 15th total of 930,296 shares. Approximately 1.0% of the shares of the stock are short sold. Based on an average trading volume of 1,240,666 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.5 days.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Midland Wealth Advisors LLC boosted its stake in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF by 4.8% during the fourth quarter. Midland Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 1,411,912 shares of the company’s stock valued at $91,788,000 after buying an additional 64,309 shares during the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its stake in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF by 12.1% during the second quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 1,263,638 shares of the company’s stock valued at $85,043,000 after buying an additional 136,110 shares during the last quarter. RWA Wealth Partners LLC boosted its stake in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF by 3.5% during the third quarter. RWA Wealth Partners LLC now owns 875,815 shares of the company’s stock valued at $59,950,000 after buying an additional 29,717 shares during the last quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. boosted its stake in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF by 4.9% during the fourth quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. now owns 691,644 shares of the company’s stock valued at $44,964,000 after buying an additional 32,238 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Capital City Trust Co. FL bought a new position in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $43,144,000.

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF Stock Performance

EDV traded down $0.59 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $60.74. 772,174 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,262,462. Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF has a 1 year low of $60.49 and a 1 year high of $71.31. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $64.45 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $66.06.

About Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury Index Fund. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury STRIPS 20-30 Year Equal Par Bond Index. The Index measures the investment return of Treasury STRIPS, coupon and principal, with maturities ranging from 20 to 30 years. A Treasury STRIP represents a single coupon payment, or a single principal payment, from a United States Treasury security that has been stripped into separately tradable components.