iShares Total Return Active ETF (NASDAQ:BRTR) Short Interest Down 39.5% in April

iShares Total Return Active ETF (NASDAQ:BRTR) saw a significant drop in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 57,316 shares, a drop of 39.5% from the April 15th total of 94,762 shares. Approximately 0.5% of the company’s shares are sold short. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 71,387 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.8 days.

iShares Total Return Active ETF Stock Down 0.1%

Shares of BRTR opened at $49.75 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of $552.23 million, a PE ratio of 22.72 and a beta of 0.17. The business has a fifty day moving average of $50.30 and a 200 day moving average of $50.77. iShares Total Return Active ETF has a 52-week low of $49.14 and a 52-week high of $51.68.

iShares Total Return Active ETF Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, May 6th. Investors of record on Friday, May 1st were given a $0.1895 dividend. This is a boost from iShares Total Return Active ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.19. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.6%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, May 1st.

Institutional Trading of iShares Total Return Active ETF

A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted its position in iShares Total Return Active ETF by 1,406.0% in the fourth quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 3,232,880 shares of the company’s stock worth $164,149,000 after buying an additional 3,018,219 shares during the last quarter. Arkadios Wealth Advisors lifted its position in iShares Total Return Active ETF by 242.1% in the first quarter. Arkadios Wealth Advisors now owns 276,840 shares of the company’s stock worth $13,895,000 after buying an additional 195,923 shares during the last quarter. Ethos Financial Group LLC lifted its position in iShares Total Return Active ETF by 92.5% in the first quarter. Ethos Financial Group LLC now owns 87,712 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,402,000 after buying an additional 42,141 shares during the last quarter. Flow Traders U.S. LLC lifted its position in iShares Total Return Active ETF by 186.4% in the third quarter. Flow Traders U.S. LLC now owns 54,422 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,775,000 after buying an additional 35,420 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Greatmark Investment Partners Inc. lifted its position in iShares Total Return Active ETF by 69.9% in the fourth quarter. Greatmark Investment Partners Inc. now owns 6,865 shares of the company’s stock worth $349,000 after buying an additional 2,825 shares during the last quarter.

iShares Total Return Active ETF Company Profile

The iShares Total Return Active ETF (BRTR) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in broad credit fixed income. The fund is an actively managed ETF that broadly invests in corporate and government fixed income securities from around the world. Securities could be of any maturity while limiting investments in junk bonds to 20%. BRTR was launched on Dec 12, 2023 and is issued by BlackRock.