Mary Erdoes Sells 5,732 Shares of Vanguard S&P 500 Covered Call ETF (NYSEARCA:VYLD) Stock

Vanguard S&P 500 Covered Call ETF (NYSEARCA:VYLD) CEO Mary Erdoes sold 5,732 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, January 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $312.78, for a total transaction of $1,792,854.96. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 619,136 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $193,653,358.08. The trade was a 0.92% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink.

Vanguard S&P 500 Covered Call ETF Price Performance

Shares of Vanguard S&P 500 Covered Call ETF stock traded down $0.02 during trading 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.