Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:VGLT) Plans Monthly Dividend of $0.21

Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:VGLT) declared a monthly dividend on Monday, June 29th, NASDAQ Dividends reports. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, July 1st will be given a dividend of 0.2076 per share on Monday, July 6th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 4.6%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, July 1st.

Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF Stock Performance

NASDAQ:VGLT traded down $0.52 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $54.66. 1,930,262 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,574,147. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $54.74 and its 200 day simple moving average is $55.56. Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF has a fifty-two week low of $53.04 and a fifty-two week high of $58.44.

About Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF

Vanguard Long Term Government Bond ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted government bond index with a long-term, dollar-weighted average maturity. It employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Long Government Float Adjusted Index (the Index). This Index includes fixed-income securities issued by the United States Treasury (not including inflation-protected bonds) and the United States Government agencies and instrumentalities, as well as corporate or dollar-denominated foreign debt guaranteed by the United States Government, with maturities greater than 10 years.