iShares GNMA Bond ETF (NASDAQ:GNMA) Short Interest Update

iShares GNMA Bond ETF (NASDAQ:GNMA) saw a large growth in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 13,841 shares, a growth of 138.6% from the April 15th total of 5,800 shares. Currently, 0.1% of the company’s stock are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 20,792 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.7 days.

iShares GNMA Bond ETF Price Performance

GNMA stock traded down $0.25 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $43.83. The company had a trading volume of 33,958 shares, compared to its average volume of 31,759. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $44.41 and a 200 day simple moving average of $44.57. iShares GNMA Bond ETF has a fifty-two week low of $42.72 and a fifty-two week high of $45.49.

iShares GNMA Bond ETF Dividend Announcement

The business also recently declared a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, May 6th. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 1st were given a $0.1554 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, May 1st. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.3%.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On iShares GNMA Bond ETF

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Sanctuary Advisors LLC raised its position in iShares GNMA Bond ETF by 11.0% in the 1st quarter. Sanctuary Advisors LLC now owns 134,515 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,963,000 after purchasing an additional 13,350 shares in the last quarter. Kestra Advisory Services LLC raised its position in iShares GNMA Bond ETF by 9.4% in the 1st quarter. Kestra Advisory Services LLC now owns 8,931 shares of the company’s stock valued at $396,000 after purchasing an additional 770 shares in the last quarter. CFS Investment Advisory Services LLC raised its position in iShares GNMA Bond ETF by 8.6% in the 1st quarter. CFS Investment Advisory Services LLC now owns 28,824 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,289,000 after purchasing an additional 2,276 shares in the last quarter. Patriot Financial Group Insurance Agency LLC raised its position in iShares GNMA Bond ETF by 100.0% in the 1st quarter. Patriot Financial Group Insurance Agency LLC now owns 12,226 shares of the company’s stock valued at $542,000 after purchasing an additional 6,113 shares in the last quarter. Finally, EP Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in iShares GNMA Bond ETF in the 4th quarter valued at about $643,000.

iShares GNMA Bond ETF Company Profile

The iShares GNMA Bond ETF (GNMA) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the Bloomberg U.S. GNMA Bond index. The fund tracks a market-value-weighted index of US mortgage pass-through securities issued by Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), with 30- or 15-year maturities. GNMA was launched on Feb 14, 2012 and is managed by BlackRock.