Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Reaches New 1-Year High – Should You Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR)’s stock price reached a new 52-week high on Thursday . The stock traded as high as $245.65 and last traded at $245.41, with a volume of 30282 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $242.52.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Trading Up 1.2%

The company has a market capitalization of $37.26 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $237.01 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $228.69.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Abound Wealth Management raised its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 9.1% during the second quarter. Abound Wealth Management now owns 987 shares of the company’s stock valued at $240,000 after acquiring an additional 82 shares during the last quarter. G&S Capital LLC acquired a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the second quarter valued at $616,000. City Holding Co. increased its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 11.3% in the second quarter. City Holding Co. now owns 4,321 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,050,000 after purchasing an additional 440 shares during the period. KMG Fiduciary Partners LLC raised its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 30.3% during the 2nd quarter. KMG Fiduciary Partners LLC now owns 2,235 shares of the company’s stock worth $543,000 after purchasing an additional 520 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Sherman Wealth Management LLC raised its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.2% during the 2nd quarter. Sherman Wealth Management LLC now owns 6,221 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,512,000 after purchasing an additional 194 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Company Profile

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.