Sen. John Boozman Buys iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:HYG) Stock

Senator John Boozman (R-Arkansas) recently bought shares of iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:HYG). In a filing disclosed on May 14th, the Senator disclosed that they had bought between $1,001 and $15,000 in iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF stock on April 9th.

Senator John Boozman also recently made the following trade(s):

• Sold $1,001 – $15,000 in shares of Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) on 4/22/2025.
• Purchased $1,001 – $15,000 in shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) on 4/22/2025.
• Purchased $1,001 – $15,000 in shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) on 4/16/2025.
• Sold $1,001 – $15,000 in shares of Lam Research (NASDAQ:LRCX) on 4/16/2025.
• Purchased $1,001 – $15,000 in shares of Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) on 4/16/2025.
• Purchased $1,001 – $15,000 in shares of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) on 4/16/2025.
• Sold $1,001 – $15,000 in shares of Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) on 4/16/2025.
• Sold $1,001 – $15,000 in shares of Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) on 4/16/2025.
• Purchased $1,001 – $15,000 in shares of Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) on 4/15/2025.
• Sold $1,001 – $15,000 in shares of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) on 4/15/2025.

iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF Stock Up 0.1%

iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF stock opened at $79.42 on Friday. The business has a fifty day moving average of $78.32 and a two-hundred day moving average of $79.02. The firm has a market cap of $14.26 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.84 and a beta of 0.41. iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF has a twelve month low of $75.08 and a twelve month high of $80.37.

Institutional Trading of iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Tolleson Wealth Management Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF by 6.8% during the 1st quarter. Tolleson Wealth Management Inc. now owns 6,272 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $495,000 after purchasing an additional 397 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF by 130.8% during the 1st quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 17,128 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,351,000 after purchasing an additional 9,708 shares during the last quarter. Baird Financial Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF by 25.2% during the 1st quarter. Baird Financial Group Inc. now owns 83,727 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $6,605,000 after purchasing an additional 16,855 shares during the last quarter. Pinnacle Wealth Planning Services Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF by 21.0% during the 1st quarter. Pinnacle Wealth Planning Services Inc. now owns 14,065 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,110,000 after purchasing an additional 2,441 shares during the last quarter. Finally, RPg Family Wealth Advisory LLC purchased a new stake in shares of iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF during the 1st quarter valued at $424,000.

About Senator Boozman

John Boozman (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Arkansas. He assumed office on January 3, 2011. His current term ends on January 3, 2029. Boozman (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate to represent Arkansas. He won in the general election on November 8, 2022. Boozman won re-election in 2016. He faced Democrat Conner Eldridge, Libertarian Frank Gilbert, and write-in candidate Jason Tate in the general election. Arkansas’ U.S. Senate race was rated as safely Republican in 2016. Boozman began his political career in the U.S. House. He won a special election in 2001 and served in that position until his election to the Senate in 2010. Prior to his political career, Boozman worked as an optometrist. As of a 2014 analysis of multiple outside rankings, Boozman is an average Republican member of Congress, meaning he will vote with the Republican Party on the majority of bills. Below is an abbreviated outline of Boozman’s academic, professional, and political career: 2011-Present: U.S. Senator from Arkansas 2001-2011: U.S. Representative from Arkansas 1977: Graduated from Southern College of Optometry

About iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF

iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (the Fund), formerly iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund, is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Markit iBoxx USD Liquid High Yield Index (the Index), which is a rules-based index consisting of liquid the United States dollar-denominated, high yield corporate bonds for sale in the United States, as determined by the index provider.