Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF (VGSH) to Issue Monthly Dividend of $0.20 on May 6th

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF (NASDAQ:VGSH) declared a monthly dividend on Monday, April 29th, Zacks reports. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 2nd will be given a dividend of 0.197 per share on Monday, May 6th. This represents a $2.36 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.11%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, May 1st.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF Trading Down 0.3 %

NASDAQ VGSH traded down $0.16 on Wednesday, hitting $57.49. 594,056 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,051,187. Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF has a 52-week low of $57.33 and a 52-week high of $58.81. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $57.88 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $57.97.

About Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index 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.