Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Reaches New 1-Year High – Here’s Why

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR)’s stock price reached a new 52-week high on Tuesday . The company traded as high as $218.96 and last traded at $219.0740, with a volume of 398795 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $217.05.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Performance

The company has a market cap of $33.55 billion, a PE ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 1.05. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $211.02 and its 200 day simple moving average is $206.88.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

Hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Whitaker Myers Wealth Managers LTD. lifted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 7.7% in the 3rd quarter. Whitaker Myers Wealth Managers LTD. now owns 100,778 shares of the company’s stock valued at $21,033,000 after purchasing an additional 7,230 shares during the last quarter. FWG Investments LLC. acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the second quarter valued at approximately $456,000. Brown Advisory Inc. increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 12.3% in the second quarter. Brown Advisory Inc. now owns 41,777 shares of the company’s stock valued at $8,147,000 after purchasing an additional 4,560 shares during the period. Allworth Financial LP raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 6.6% during the second quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 794,775 shares of the company’s stock valued at $154,989,000 after buying an additional 49,116 shares during the last quarter. Finally, American National Bank & Trust raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 63.9% during the second quarter. American National Bank & Trust now owns 8,888 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,733,000 after buying an additional 3,466 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.