Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF $VCLT Shares Acquired by Manning & Napier Advisors LLC

Manning & Napier Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCLT) by 461.6% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 81,471 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after purchasing an additional 66,964 shares during the period. Manning & Napier Advisors LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF were worth $6,088,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the stock. State Street Corp increased its position in Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 20.6% during the second quarter. State Street Corp now owns 1,121,846 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $85,148,000 after buying an additional 191,387 shares in the last quarter. Sei Investments Co. raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 55.6% in the second quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 146,574 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $11,125,000 after acquiring an additional 52,404 shares during the last quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 0.3% in the second quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. now owns 542,428 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $41,170,000 after acquiring an additional 1,523 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 0.5% in the second quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 2,389,158 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $181,337,000 after acquiring an additional 11,002 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Orion Porfolio Solutions LLC lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF by 21.0% in the second quarter. Orion Porfolio Solutions LLC now owns 7,704 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $585,000 after acquiring an additional 1,335 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Stock Down 0.3%

Shares of VCLT traded down $0.23 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $73.52. 2,960,736 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 5,757,926. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $74.77 and a 200 day simple moving average of $75.47. Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF has a fifty-two week low of $72.92 and a fifty-two week high of $79.28.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a monthly dividend, which was paid on Monday, July 6th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, July 1st were issued a $0.3422 dividend. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.6%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, July 1st.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF 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.