B. Riley Wealth Advisors Inc. Has $687,000 Stock Holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF (NASDAQ:VGSH)

B. Riley Wealth Advisors Inc. raised its holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF (NASDAQ:VGSH) by 11.3% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm owned 11,676 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,185 shares during the quarter. B. Riley Wealth Advisors Inc.’s holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF were worth $687,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other large investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. NorthRock Partners LLC increased its holdings in Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF by 19,321.3% in the third quarter. NorthRock Partners LLC now owns 1,058,266 shares of the company’s stock valued at $62,459,000 after purchasing an additional 1,052,817 shares during the period. Brookstone Capital Management increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF by 1,206.6% in the third quarter. Brookstone Capital Management now owns 979,003 shares of the company’s stock valued at $57,781,000 after buying an additional 904,076 shares during the period. Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC raised its position in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF by 6,213.3% during the third quarter. Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC now owns 908,739 shares of the company’s stock worth $53,256,000 after acquiring an additional 894,345 shares during the last quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC raised its position in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF by 234.4% during the second quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 1,145,600 shares of the company’s stock worth $66,433,000 after acquiring an additional 802,973 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Armstrong Advisory Group Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF by 2,126.2% in the third quarter. Armstrong Advisory Group Inc. now owns 771,192 shares of the company’s stock worth $45,516,000 after acquiring an additional 736,550 shares during the period.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF Price Performance

NASDAQ:VGSH opened at $58.18 on Thursday. Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF has a fifty-two week low of $57.46 and a fifty-two week high of $59.13. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $58.35 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $58.40.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, November 5th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 1st were given a dividend of $0.214 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, November 1st. This is a boost from Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.20. This represents a $2.57 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.41%.

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.