Ashley Bacon Sells 7,364 Shares of Vanguard S&P 500 Covered Call ETF (NYSEARCA:VYLD) Stock

Vanguard S&P 500 Covered Call ETF (NYSEARCA:VYLD) insider Ashley Bacon sold 7,364 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, January 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $312.79, for a total value of $2,303,385.56. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 237,157 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $74,180,338.03. The trade was a 3.01% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link.

Vanguard S&P 500 Covered Call ETF Stock Performance

Shares of VYLD stock traded down $0.02 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $28.36. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 505 shares.

Vanguard S&P 500 Covered Call ETF (NYSEARCA: VYLD) is an exchange-traded fund managed by Vanguard that combines broad exposure to large-cap U.S. equities with an options overlay designed to generate incremental income. The fund holds a portfolio intended to approximate the performance of the S&P 500 and implements a covered‑call (buy‑write) strategy, selling call options against the equity exposure to capture option premiums. This approach seeks to provide higher income than a plain‑vanilla S&P 500 index fund while maintaining substantial participation in the U.S.