Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (NYSEARCA:EDV) Short Interest Down 45.2% in August

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (NYSEARCA:EDV) saw a large drop in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 859,662 shares, a drop of 45.2% from the August 15th total of 1,568,477 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,545,370 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.6 days. Currently, 1.6% of the shares of the company are sold short.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Continuum Advisory LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF during the 2nd quarter valued at $35,000. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF in the 2nd quarter worth about $94,000. Buffalo Business & Estate Services Ltd. bought a new position in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF in the 1st quarter worth about $258,000. Corient Private Wealth LP grew its holdings in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF by 13.7% during the 2nd quarter. Corient Private Wealth LP now owns 5,340 shares of the company’s stock valued at $348,000 after buying an additional 645 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Avise Financial Cooperative Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF during the fourth quarter valued at about $354,000.

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF Price Performance

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF stock traded down $0.27 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $58.95. The stock had a trading volume of 1,431,148 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,236,686. Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF has a 1 year low of $58.33 and a 1 year high of $71.31. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $60.51 and its two-hundred day moving average is $63.14.

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.