Chesley Taft & Associates LLC Invests $277,000 in iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (BATS:GOVT)

Chesley Taft & Associates LLC bought a new position in iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (BATS:GOVT) in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor bought 11,796 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $277,000.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in GOVT. LPL Financial LLC increased its stake in shares of iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF by 6.6% in the second quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 104,237,657 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,352,644,000 after buying an additional 6,443,351 shares during the period. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. increased its stake in shares of iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF by 14.4% in the second quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 57,384,743 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,295,174,000 after buying an additional 7,203,276 shares during the period. Fund Evaluation Group LLC increased its stake in shares of iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF by 3.4% in the second quarter. Fund Evaluation Group LLC now owns 11,116,463 shares of the company’s stock valued at $250,899,000 after buying an additional 368,383 shares during the period. Peavine Capital LLC increased its stake in shares of iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF by 3.1% in the first quarter. Peavine Capital LLC now owns 9,848,623 shares of the company’s stock valued at $224,253,000 after buying an additional 293,858 shares during the period. Finally, Morningstar Investment Management LLC increased its position in iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF by 16.3% during the 2nd quarter. Morningstar Investment Management LLC now owns 8,717,729 shares of the company’s stock valued at $196,759,000 after purchasing an additional 1,221,559 shares during the period.

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF Price Performance

BATS:GOVT opened at $23.09 on Wednesday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $23.35 and its 200 day moving average price is $22.80.

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, September 6th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, September 3rd were given a dividend of $0.0629 per share. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, September 3rd. This is an increase from iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF’s previous dividend of $0.06.

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF Profile

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.