iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF $TLT Shares Bought by Advisors Preferred LLC

Advisors Preferred LLC grew its stake in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) by 41.1% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 67,047 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after purchasing an additional 19,515 shares during the period. Advisors Preferred LLC’s holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF were worth $5,812,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in TLT. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its holdings in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 125.5% during the 4th quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 8,997,581 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $784,229,000 after purchasing an additional 44,234,543 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE grew its position in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 10.5% during the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 109,057,503 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $9,505,452,000 after buying an additional 10,380,437 shares during the period. Morgan Stanley increased its holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 31.3% in the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 19,186,986 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,672,338,000 after buying an additional 4,577,906 shares in the last quarter. Pureheart Capital Pte Ltd. purchased a new position in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF in the fourth quarter valued at $292,683,000. Finally, Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. raised its position in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 3.4% in the fourth quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 43,140,136 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $3,760,094,000 after acquiring an additional 1,418,641 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 73.33% of the company’s stock.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Stock Up 0.1%

NASDAQ:TLT opened at $84.08 on Wednesday. iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF has a 52 week low of $82.77 and a 52 week high of $92.18. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $85.38 and its 200-day moving average price is $86.80. The stock has a market capitalization of $41.87 billion, a PE ratio of -6.75 and a beta of 0.51.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently declared a monthly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, July 7th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, July 1st were given a dividend of $0.318 per share. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, July 1st. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.5%.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Company Profile

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of United States Treasury bonds with remaining maturities greater than 20 years. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Barclays U.S. 20+ Year Treasury Bond Index (the Underlying Index), which measures the performance of public obligations of the United States Treasury that have a remaining maturity of 20 or more years. The Underlying Index includes all publicly-issued the United States Treasury securities that have a remaining maturity of greater than or equal to 20 years.