iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF Sees Unusually Large Options Volume (NASDAQ:IEF)

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:IEF) saw unusually large options trading on Wednesday. Investors purchased 42,840 call options on the company. This is an increase of 198% compared to the average volume of 14,376 call options.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the business. Vontobel Holding Ltd. lifted its position in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 13.2% in the fourth quarter. Vontobel Holding Ltd. now owns 2,579 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $238,000 after buying an additional 301 shares during the last quarter. Greatmark Investment Partners Inc. grew its stake in shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 1.9% in the 4th quarter. Greatmark Investment Partners Inc. now owns 34,101 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $3,153,000 after purchasing an additional 625 shares during the period. Beam Wealth Advisors Inc. boosted its position in iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 3.7% in the 4th quarter. Beam Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 36,617 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $3,385,000 after buying an additional 1,303 shares during the last quarter. National Bank of Canada FI boosted its position in iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 458.8% in the 3rd quarter. National Bank of Canada FI now owns 369,823 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $36,308,000 after buying an additional 303,636 shares during the last quarter. Finally, First Horizon Advisors Inc. boosted its position in iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF by 3,410.5% in the 4th quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 667 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $62,000 after buying an additional 648 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 81.48% of the company’s stock.

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF Stock Up 0.1 %

Shares of iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF stock opened at $95.10 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $93.50 and its 200-day moving average is $94.59. The firm has a market capitalization of $33.98 billion, a PE ratio of -22.19 and a beta of 0.17. iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF has a 12-month low of $91.02 and a 12-month high of $99.18.

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, March 6th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 3rd were issued a dividend of $0.2754 per share. The ex-dividend date was Monday, March 3rd.

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF Company Profile

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.