Meitav Investment House Ltd. Purchases 40,792 Shares of iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF $GOVT

Meitav Investment House Ltd. increased its position in shares of iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (BATS:GOVT) by 50.9% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 120,906 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 40,792 shares during the period. Meitav Investment House Ltd.’s holdings in iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF were worth $2,794,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in GOVT. TIAA Trust National Association grew its stake in shares of iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF by 17,484.2% during the second quarter. TIAA Trust National Association now owns 30,751,087 shares of the company’s stock valued at $705,040,000 after buying an additional 30,576,208 shares during the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its stake in shares of iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF by 2.8% during the 2nd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 321,504,611 shares of the company’s stock worth $7,388,176,000 after acquiring an additional 8,760,376 shares during the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted its holdings in iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF by 7.4% during the 2nd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 40,314,805 shares of the company’s stock valued at $926,434,000 after acquiring an additional 2,794,537 shares during the period. Jordan Park Group LLC grew its position in iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF by 13.9% in the 2nd quarter. Jordan Park Group LLC now owns 20,987,708 shares of the company’s stock valued at $482,298,000 after acquiring an additional 2,559,272 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Fund Evaluation Group LLC increased its stake in iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF by 9.6% in the second quarter. Fund Evaluation Group LLC now owns 13,458,570 shares of the company’s stock worth $309,278,000 after purchasing an additional 1,177,418 shares during the period.

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF Stock Down 0.2%

BATS:GOVT opened at $23.03 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $23.10 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $23.04.

About iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF

The iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (GOVT) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the ICE U.S. Treasury Core Bond index. The fund tracks a market-weighted index of fixed-rate nonconvertible U.S. Treasury securities with a remaining maturity of one year or more. GOVT was launched on Feb 14, 2012 and is managed by BlackRock.