Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (NYSEARCA:EDV) Shares Shorted: Short Interest Up 123.2% in September

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (NYSEARCA:EDV) was the recipient of a significant growth in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totaling 717,787 shares, a growth of 123.2% from the September 15th total of 321,553 shares. Currently, 1.2% of the company’s shares are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 2,519,625 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.3 days.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in EDV. Continuum Advisory LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF during the second quarter valued at approximately $35,000. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC purchased a new position in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF during the second quarter valued at approximately $94,000. Buffalo Business & Estate Services Ltd. purchased a new position in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF during the first quarter valued at approximately $258,000. Sanders Morris Harris LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF in the third quarter worth approximately $287,000. Finally, Corient Private Wealth LP raised its stake in Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF by 13.7% in the second quarter. Corient Private Wealth LP now owns 5,340 shares of the company’s stock worth $348,000 after buying an additional 645 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF Stock Up 2.5%

Shares of NYSEARCA EDV traded up $1.40 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $57.77. The stock had a trading volume of 1,007,017 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,364,462. Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF has a 52-week low of $53.40 and a 52-week high of $71.31. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $58.57 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $61.66.

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF Company Profile

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury Index Fund. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury STRIPS 20-30 Year Equal Par Bond Index. The Index measures the investment return of Treasury STRIPS, coupon and principal, with maturities ranging from 20 to 30 years. A Treasury STRIP represents a single coupon payment, or a single principal payment, from a United States Treasury security that has been stripped into separately tradable components.