NYSEARCA:VYM - Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)ARCA under the ticker symbol "VYM."

Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, December 21st. Investors of record on Wednesday, December 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.7388 per share on Friday, December 28th. This represents a $2.96 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.64%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 24th. This is an increase from Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF's previous quarterly dividend of $0.67. View Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF's Dividend History.

Media headlines about VYM stock have been trending very positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF earned a media sentiment score of 3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF saw a drop in short interest in December. As of December 14th, there was short interest totalling 102,514 shares, a drop of 80.4% from the November 30th total of 522,327 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,358,196 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.0 days. View Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF's Current Options Chain.

Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Joel Isaacson & Co. LLC (0.16%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.15%), Bouchey Financial Group Ltd (0.11%), Conservest Capital Advisors Inc. (0.09%), First Midwest Bank Trust Division (0.08%) and Kistler Tiffany Companies LLC (0.07%).

VYM stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including First Command Bank, Stillwater Capital Advisors LLC, Bouchey Financial Group Ltd, Bank of Montreal Can, Bristlecone Advisors LLC, Juncture Wealth Strategies LLC, Triangle Securities Wealth Management and Stuart Chaussee & Associates Inc..

VYM stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including First Midwest Bank Trust Division, PFG Advisors, CX Institutional, RNC Capital Management LLC, Strategic Family Wealth Counselors L.L.C., Beacon Financial Group, Joel Isaacson & Co. LLC and Nachman Norwood & Parrott Inc.

Shares of VYM can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of VYM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $81.24.

Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF has a market capitalization of $22.11 billion.

The official website for Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF is http://www.vanguard.com.