Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Sets New 52-Week High – Time to Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR)’s stock price reached a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $244.00 and last traded at $243.54, with a volume of 40513 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $241.32.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Down 0.2%

The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $231.84 and a 200-day simple moving average of $224.63. The stock has a market cap of $36.06 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Valpey Financial Services LLC boosted its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 21,125.3% in the 4th quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC now owns 4,270,098 shares of the company’s stock valued at $904,364,000 after purchasing an additional 4,249,980 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.6% in the 4th quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 15,999,348 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,388,502,000 after purchasing an additional 560,544 shares during the period. Align Financial LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 4th quarter valued at about $97,410,000. Focus Partners Wealth grew its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 53.8% during the fourth quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 849,534 shares of the company’s stock worth $179,915,000 after buying an additional 297,074 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Corient Private Wealth LLC grew its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 128.8% during the second quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 505,618 shares of the company’s stock worth $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.