BMO Covered Call Canadian Banks ETF (ZWB.TO) (TSE:ZWB) Reaches New 1-Year High – Still a Buy?

BMO Covered Call Canadian Banks ETF (ZWB.TO) (TSE:ZWB) shares hit a new 52-week high during trading on Monday . The company traded as high as C$25.49 and last traded at C$25.49, with a volume of 73252 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at C$25.29.

BMO Covered Call Canadian Banks ETF (ZWB.TO) Stock Down 0.3%

The business has a 50 day moving average price of C$24.36 and a 200-day moving average price of C$22.75.

BMO Covered Call Canadian Banks ETF (ZWB.TO) Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, December 2nd. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 2nd were paid a dividend of $0.12 per share. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, November 26th. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.7%.

About BMO Covered Call Canadian Banks ETF (ZWB.TO)

The ETF seeks to provide exposure to the performance of a portfolio of Canadian banks to generate income and to provide long-term capital appreciation while mitigating downside risk through the use of covered call options. To achieve investment objective the ETF will primarily invest in and hold the securities of Canadian banks, ETFs, or a combination of these. Depending on market volatility and other factors, the ETF will write covered call options on these securities. Under such call options, the ETF will sell to the buyer of the option, for a premium, either a right to buy the security from the ETF at an exercise price or, if the option is cash settled, the right to a payment from the ETF equal to the difference between the value of the security and the exercise price.