iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF Target of Unusually Large Options Trading (NASDAQ:IEF)

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:IEF) was the recipient of unusually large options trading on Wednesday. Stock investors purchased 34,986 put options on the company. This is an increase of 49% compared to the average volume of 23,434 put options.

Institutional Trading of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Fisher Asset Management LLC boosted its position in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 52.1% during the 3rd quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 87,662,438 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $8,455,919,000 after acquiring an additional 30,011,547 shares during the last quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. boosted its holdings in iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 28.2% in the 3rd quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 14,950,581 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,443,272,000 after purchasing an additional 3,291,267 shares during the last quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp grew its stake in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 4,057.3% in the 1st quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 1,899,503 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $181,156,000 after buying an additional 1,853,812 shares during the period. Peavine Capital LLC acquired a new stake in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $160,837,000. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its position in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 5.0% during the 1st quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 28,076,649 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $2,677,872,000 after buying an additional 1,333,142 shares during the period. 81.48% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF Stock Performance

NASDAQ IEF opened at $97.59 on Wednesday. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $96.83 and a 200 day moving average price of $95.63. The company has a market cap of $40.70 billion, a P/E ratio of -22.00 and a beta of 0.26. iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF has a one year low of $91.08 and a one year high of $97.77.

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF Increases Dividend

The business also recently announced a monthly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, November 6th. Stockholders of record on Monday, November 3rd were issued a dividend of $0.3038 per share. The ex-dividend date was Monday, November 3rd. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.7%. This is an increase from iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.29.

About iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (the Fund) is an is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of the United States Treasury bonds with remaining maturities between seven and ten years. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Barclays U.S.