Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (NASDAQ:VMBS) Declares Monthly Dividend of $0.17

Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (NASDAQ:VMBS) announced a monthly dividend on Tuesday, January 27th. Shareholders of record on Monday, November 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.17 per share by the exchange traded fund on Wednesday, November 4th. This represents a $2.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, November 2nd. This is a 4.2% increase from Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.1632.

Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF Price Performance

Shares of Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF stock opened at $45.60 on Friday. Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF has a 52-week low of $43.95 and a 52-week high of $47.90. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $45.21 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $46.42.

Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF Company Profile

Vanguard Mortgage Backed Securities ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted, mortgage-backed securities index. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. MBS Float Adjusted Index (the Index). The Index covers the United States agency mortgage-backed, pass-through securities issued by Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC).