Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF (VGSH) to Issue Monthly Dividend of $0.20 on July 3rd

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF (NASDAQ:VGSH) declared a monthly dividend on Friday, June 28th, Zacks reports. Stockholders of record on Monday, July 1st will be paid a dividend of 0.202 per share on Wednesday, July 3rd. This represents a $2.42 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.18%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, July 1st.

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF Price Performance

Shares of VGSH stock opened at $57.99 on Friday. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $57.81 and its 200-day simple moving average is $58.00. Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index ETF has a 52 week low of $57.33 and a 52 week high of $58.57.

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.