Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Hits New 52-Week High – Still a Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR)’s share price hit a new 52-week high on Tuesday . The stock traded as high as $238.60 and last traded at $238.49, with a volume of 407508 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $234.69.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Performance

The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $229.12 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $223.19. The firm has a market capitalization of $35.32 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

Institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Valpey Financial Services LLC boosted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 21,125.3% in the fourth quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC now owns 4,270,098 shares of the company’s stock valued at $904,364,000 after buying an additional 4,249,980 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.6% in the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 15,999,348 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,388,502,000 after buying an additional 560,544 shares in the last quarter. Align Financial LLC acquired a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the fourth quarter valued at about $97,410,000. Focus Partners Wealth boosted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 53.8% in the fourth quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 849,534 shares of the company’s stock valued at $179,915,000 after buying an additional 297,074 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Corient Private Wealth LLC boosted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 128.8% in the second quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 505,618 shares of the company’s stock valued at $98,654,000 after buying an additional 284,655 shares in the last quarter.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Small Cap Value Index (the Index). The Index is a diversified index of value 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.