iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF $TLT Stock Holdings Increased by Vision Financial Markets LLC

Vision Financial Markets LLC lifted its position in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) by 247.2% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 346,900 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after buying an additional 247,000 shares during the period. iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF comprises 19.5% of Vision Financial Markets LLC’s holdings, making the stock its largest position. Vision Financial Markets LLC owned 0.06% of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF worth $26,982,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in TLT. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. lifted its holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 18.3% during the second quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 5,550,822 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $479,702,000 after acquiring an additional 860,164 shares in the last quarter. Aozora Bank LTD. bought a new stake in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF in the second quarter worth about $198,507,000. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company raised its position in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 141.9% during the second quarter. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company now owns 1,311,965 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $113,380,000 after purchasing an additional 769,615 shares during the period. HighTower Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 30.1% during the second quarter. HighTower Advisors LLC now owns 1,052,408 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $90,949,000 after purchasing an additional 243,793 shares during the period. Finally, State Street Corp raised its position in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 34.1% during the second quarter. State Street Corp now owns 739,553 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $63,912,000 after purchasing an additional 188,174 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 73.33% of the company’s stock.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Trading Down 0.5%

Shares of NASDAQ:TLT traded down $0.40 during trading on Friday, hitting $81.34. 34,787,676 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 34,255,156. iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF has a 52 week low of $76.43 and a 52 week high of $92.18. The company has a market cap of $47.56 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.75 and a beta of 0.52. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $80.56 and a 200-day moving average price of $83.48.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Cuts Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, October 6th. Investors of record on Thursday, October 1st were issued a dividend of $0.3116 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, October 1st. This is a negative change from iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.3147. This represents a $3.74 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.6%.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Company Profile

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of United States Treasury bonds with remaining maturities greater than 20 years. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Barclays U.S. 20+ Year Treasury Bond Index (the Underlying Index), which measures the performance of public obligations of the United States Treasury that have a remaining maturity of 20 or more years. The Underlying Index includes all publicly-issued the United States Treasury securities that have a remaining maturity of greater than or equal to 20 years.