Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Sets New 12-Month High – Should You Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) reached a new 52-week high on Monday . The stock traded as high as $246.87 and last traded at $246.42, with a volume of 30176 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $244.24.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Up 0.4%

The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $238.77 and a 200-day simple moving average of $230.15. The firm has a market cap of $37.24 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Klingman & Associates LLC raised its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 106.6% during the 4th quarter. Klingman & Associates LLC now owns 8,030 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,701,000 after purchasing an additional 4,144 shares during the period. Clayton Financial Group LLC boosted its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 28.9% in the 4th quarter. Clayton Financial Group LLC now owns 42,721 shares of the company’s stock worth $9,048,000 after buying an additional 9,581 shares during the period. Forbes Financial Planning Inc. increased its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 15.3% in the 4th quarter. Forbes Financial Planning Inc. now owns 52,246 shares of the company’s stock worth $11,066,000 after buying an additional 6,920 shares in the last quarter. Northwest Quadrant Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.7% in the 4th quarter. Northwest Quadrant Wealth Management LLC now owns 135,704 shares of the company’s stock worth $28,741,000 after buying an additional 2,275 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Fifth Third Securities Inc. raised its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 6.0% during the fourth quarter. Fifth Third Securities Inc. now owns 45,739 shares of the company’s stock valued at $9,687,000 after acquiring an additional 2,599 shares during the period.

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.