Eisler Capital Management Ltd. Makes New $539,000 Investment in iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF $SHY

Eisler Capital Management Ltd. purchased a new stake in shares of iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:SHY) during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm purchased 6,516 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $539,000.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the business. Bank of America Corp DE raised its holdings in shares of iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 9.4% during the 4th quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 15,282,874 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,252,890,000 after purchasing an additional 1,308,640 shares in the last quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors raised its holdings in shares of iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 9.1% during the 4th quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 9,232,624 shares of the company’s stock valued at $756,890,000 after purchasing an additional 766,782 shares in the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC raised its holdings in shares of iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 6.5% during the 1st quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 6,855,478 shares of the company’s stock valued at $567,154,000 after purchasing an additional 417,922 shares in the last quarter. Raymond James Financial Inc. raised its holdings in shares of iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 6.8% during the 1st quarter. Raymond James Financial Inc. now owns 5,068,597 shares of the company’s stock valued at $419,325,000 after purchasing an additional 323,185 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Ameriprise Financial Inc. raised its holdings in shares of iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 13.8% during the 1st quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 4,043,180 shares of the company’s stock valued at $334,519,000 after purchasing an additional 490,469 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 23.15% of the company’s stock.

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF Trading Up 0.1%

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF stock opened at $82.94 on Thursday. The company has a market capitalization of $23.46 billion, a P/E ratio of 3,747.73 and a beta of 0.01. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $82.61 and its 200-day simple moving average is $82.52. iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF has a 1-year low of $81.67 and a 1-year high of $83.30.

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, August 6th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 1st were issued a dividend of $0.2698 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, August 1st. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.9%. This is an increase from iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.26.

About iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

The iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the U.S. Treasury 1-3 Year index. The fund tracks a market weighted index of debt issued by the US Treasury with 1-3 years remaining to maturity. Treasury STRIPS are excluded. SHY was launched on Jul 22, 2002 and is managed by BlackRock.