M&T Bank Corp Buys 142,009 Shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF $VGSH

M&T Bank Corp lifted its stake in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:VGSH) by 4.5% during the 3rd quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 3,304,516 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 142,009 shares during the quarter. M&T Bank Corp’s holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF were worth $194,470,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Security Financial Services INC. grew its holdings in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 0.6% in the second quarter. Security Financial Services INC. now owns 28,448 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,672,000 after purchasing an additional 172 shares in the last quarter. Modern Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 4.4% during the 2nd quarter. Modern Wealth Management LLC now owns 4,118 shares of the company’s stock worth $242,000 after buying an additional 173 shares during the period. Ethos Financial Group LLC lifted its holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 1.6% during the 3rd quarter. Ethos Financial Group LLC now owns 10,816 shares of the company’s stock worth $637,000 after buying an additional 175 shares in the last quarter. Essex Financial Services Inc. grew its stake in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 2.5% in the third quarter. Essex Financial Services Inc. now owns 7,539 shares of the company’s stock worth $444,000 after acquiring an additional 181 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Essential Planning LLC. grew its stake in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF by 2.5% in the second quarter. Essential Planning LLC. now owns 7,712 shares of the company’s stock worth $453,000 after acquiring an additional 187 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF Stock Performance

NASDAQ:VGSH opened at $58.53 on Friday. Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF has a 52 week low of $58.32 and a 52 week high of $59.01. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $58.76 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $58.78.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF Cuts Dividend

The business also recently announced a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 4th. Investors of record on Monday, March 2nd were paid a dividend of $0.1696 per share. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 3.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, March 2nd.

About Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF

Vanguard Short Term Government Bond ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted government bond index with a short-term, dollar-weighted average maturity. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. 1-3 Year Government Float Adjusted Index (the Index). This Index includes fixed-income securities issued by the United States Treasury (not including inflation-protected securities) and the United States Government agencies and instrumentalities, as well as corporate or dollar-denominated foreign debt guaranteed by the United States Government, all with maturities between 1 and 3 years.