Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (VCSH) to Issue Monthly Dividend of $0.30 on April 6th

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCSH) declared a monthly dividend on Monday, March 30th, NASDAQ Dividends reports. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, April 1st will be paid a dividend of 0.297 per share on Monday, April 6th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 4.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 1st. This is a 9.9% increase from Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.27.

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF Price Performance

Shares of VCSH stock traded down $0.23 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $79.04. 5,232,599 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 6,039,634. Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF has a fifty-two week low of $77.58 and a fifty-two week high of $80.26. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $79.67 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $79.76.

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF Company Profile

The Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (VCSH) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in investment grade fixed income. The fund tracks a market-weighted index of investment-grade, fixed-rate corporate bonds with maturities between 1 and 5 years. VCSH was launched on Nov 19, 2009 and is managed by Vanguard.