Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCLT) Sees Unusually-High Trading Volume – What’s Next?

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCLT) shares saw an uptick in trading volume on Tuesday . 2,379,269 shares changed hands during trading, an increase of 7% from the previous session’s volume of 2,228,029 shares.The stock last traded at $73.00 and had previously closed at $73.11.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Stock Performance

The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $76.55 and its 200-day simple moving average is $78.10.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 27th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, December 24th were paid a dividend of $0.3563 per share. This is an increase from Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF’s previous dividend of $0.34. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, December 24th.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF

A number of hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of VCLT. LPL Financial LLC increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 40.3% in the second quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 529,904 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $40,199,000 after acquiring an additional 152,204 shares during the last quarter. Angeles Investment Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 37.9% in the second quarter. Angeles Investment Advisors LLC now owns 1,012,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $76,770,000 after acquiring an additional 278,000 shares during the last quarter. Johns Hopkins University increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 1.0% in the second quarter. Johns Hopkins University now owns 5,290,374 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $401,328,000 after acquiring an additional 53,555 shares during the last quarter. GDS Wealth Management increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 99.3% in the second quarter. GDS Wealth Management now owns 351,060 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $26,631,000 after acquiring an additional 174,955 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 4.6% in the second quarter. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. now owns 261,320 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $19,823,000 after acquiring an additional 11,434 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Company 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.