Avantax Planning Partners Inc. Sells 3,563 Shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK

Avantax Planning Partners Inc. trimmed its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) by 6.5% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund owned 51,022 shares of the company’s stock after selling 3,563 shares during the quarter. Avantax Planning Partners Inc.’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF were worth $15,414,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of VBK. CENTRAL TRUST Co raised its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 25.9% in the third quarter. CENTRAL TRUST Co now owns 17,309 shares of the company’s stock worth $5,151,000 after buying an additional 3,560 shares during the last quarter. Everhart Financial Group Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 10.4% during the fourth quarter. Everhart Financial Group Inc. now owns 23,046 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,962,000 after buying an additional 2,164 shares during the last quarter. AlphaCore Capital LLC increased its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 157.4% during the third quarter. AlphaCore Capital LLC now owns 2,795 shares of the company’s stock valued at $833,000 after acquiring an additional 1,709 shares in the last quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. increased its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 0.4% during the third quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 683,942 shares of the company’s stock valued at $203,555,000 after acquiring an additional 3,006 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Assetmark Inc. raised its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 0.9% in the 4th quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 1,564,878 shares of the company’s stock worth $472,765,000 after acquiring an additional 14,258 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Trading Up 0.6%

VBK stock opened at $345.24 on Friday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $319.93 and its 200 day simple moving average is $313.18. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a 12-month low of $257.89 and a 12-month high of $349.26. The stock has a market capitalization of $23.06 billion, a PE ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Small Cap Growth Index (the Index). The Index is a diversified index of growth stocks of smaller United States companies. The Fund attempts to replicate the target Index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the Index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Index.