iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:SLQD) to Issue Monthly Dividend of $0.18

iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:SLQD) announced a monthly dividend on Thursday, December 18th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 19th will be paid a dividend of 0.1838 per share on Wednesday, December 24th. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.4%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, December 19th. This is a 0.9% increase from iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.18.

iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF Trading Down 0.4%

Shares of SLQD stock traded down $0.19 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $50.63. 19,221 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 246,582. iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF has a fifty-two week low of $49.59 and a fifty-two week high of $50.94. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $50.76 and a two-hundred day moving average of $50.62.

iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF Company Profile

The iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (SLQD) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in investment grade fixed income. The fund tracks a market-value-weighted index of investment-grade, USD-denominated corporate bonds with 0-5 years remaining to maturity. SLQD was launched on Oct 15, 2013 and is managed by BlackRock.