iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:SLQD) Short Interest Update

iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:SLQD) saw a large growth in short interest during the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totalling 84,900 shares, a growth of 21.3% from the March 31st total of 70,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 237,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.4 days.

Institutional Trading of iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Ameriprise Financial Inc. increased its holdings in shares of iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF by 16.4% in the third quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 1,855,973 shares of the company’s stock valued at $89,220,000 after purchasing an additional 260,977 shares during the period. TIAA Trust National Association grew its position in iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF by 50.2% in the 4th quarter. TIAA Trust National Association now owns 536,361 shares of the company’s stock valued at $26,389,000 after buying an additional 179,234 shares during the last quarter. Creative Financial Designs Inc. ADV increased its stake in iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF by 1.1% in the 4th quarter. Creative Financial Designs Inc. ADV now owns 315,874 shares of the company’s stock valued at $15,541,000 after buying an additional 3,307 shares during the period. Greenup Street Wealth Management LLC raised its position in iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF by 9.2% during the 4th quarter. Greenup Street Wealth Management LLC now owns 271,324 shares of the company’s stock worth $13,349,000 after buying an additional 22,761 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Summit Financial LLC lifted its stake in shares of iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF by 0.8% in the 4th quarter. Summit Financial LLC now owns 108,294 shares of the company’s stock worth $5,328,000 after acquiring an additional 830 shares during the period.

iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF Trading Up 0.1 %

NASDAQ SLQD traded up $0.04 during trading on Friday, reaching $48.88. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 105,331 shares, compared to its average volume of 260,173. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $49.02 and its 200-day moving average price is $48.81. iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF has a twelve month low of $47.65 and a twelve month high of $49.41.

iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF Dividend Announcement

The business also recently declared a monthly dividend, which was paid on Friday, April 5th. Investors of record on Tuesday, April 2nd were given a $0.1473 dividend. This represents a $1.77 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.62%. The ex-dividend date was Monday, April 1st.

About iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

The iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (SLQD) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in investment grade fixed income. The fund tracks a market-value-weighted index of investment-grade, USD-denominated corporate bonds with 0-5 years remaining to maturity. SLQD was launched on Oct 15, 2013 and is managed by BlackRock.