Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCLT) to Issue $0.35 Monthly Dividend

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCLT) declared a monthly dividend on Tuesday, January 6th. Stockholders of record on Monday, February 2nd will be given a dividend of 0.3456 per share by the exchange traded fund on Wednesday, February 4th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.4%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, February 2nd.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ VCLT traded down $0.21 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $76.21. 9,525,530 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 6,272,102. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $76.49 and its 200 day simple moving average is $76.68. Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF has a 52 week low of $70.61 and a 52 week high of $79.28.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Company Profile

Vanguard Long Term Corporate Bond ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted corporate bond index with a long-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. 10+ Year Corporate Index (the Index). This index includes the United States dollar-denominated, investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable securities issued by industrial, utility and financial companies, with maturities greater than 10 years.