Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Hits New 12-Month High – Here’s Why

Shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) hit a new 52-week high during trading on Wednesday . The company traded as high as $244.38 and last traded at $244.31, with a volume of 125466 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $242.99.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Price Performance

The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $234.74 and a 200 day simple moving average of $226.62. The company has a market capitalization of $36.59 billion, a PE ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

Hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Valpey Financial Services LLC raised its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 21,125.3% during the 4th quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC now owns 4,270,098 shares of the company’s stock worth $904,364,000 after purchasing an additional 4,249,980 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.6% during 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 position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the 4th quarter worth $97,410,000. Focus Partners Wealth grew its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 53.8% during the 4th 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 during the last quarter. Finally, Corient Private Wealth LLC grew its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 128.8% during the 2nd 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 during 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.