iShares Russell 2500 ETF (BATS:SMMD) Reaches New 1-Year High – Still a Buy?

Posted by Anthony Miller on Aug 11th, 2026

iShares Russell 2500 ETF (BATS:SMMD – Get Free Report) shares reached a new 52-week high during trading on Tuesday . The stock traded as high as $92.77 and last traded at $92.51, with a volume of 34152 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $92.11.

iShares Russell 2500 ETF Stock Performance

The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $89.85 and a 200-day simple moving average of $84.30. The stock has a market cap of $1.98 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.95 and a beta of 1.09.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On iShares Russell 2500 ETF

Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of SMMD. Bill Few Associates Inc. raised its holdings in shares of iShares Russell 2500 ETF by 39.2% in the second quarter. Bill Few Associates Inc. now owns 6,703 shares of the company’s stock valued at $614,000 after purchasing an additional 1,887 shares during the last quarter. Pacific Excel Wealth Advisors Inc. bought a new position in iShares Russell 2500 ETF in the second quarter valued at $8,246,000. MassMutual Private Wealth & Trust FSB increased its stake in iShares Russell 2500 ETF by 36.4% in the 2nd quarter. MassMutual Private Wealth & Trust FSB now owns 2,940 shares of the company’s stock valued at $269,000 after buying an additional 785 shares during the last quarter. Diesslin Group Inc. increased its stake in iShares Russell 2500 ETF by 20.5% in the 2nd quarter. Diesslin Group Inc. now owns 351,000 shares of the company’s stock valued at $32,162,000 after buying an additional 59,807 shares during the last quarter. Finally, NewEdge Advisors LLC lifted its position in iShares Russell 2500 ETF by 6.2% during the 1st quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 6,816 shares of the company’s stock worth $520,000 after buying an additional 400 shares in the last quarter.

About iShares Russell 2500 ETF

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The iShares Russell 2500 ETF (SMMD) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the Russell 2500 index, a market-cap-weighted index of US companies ranked 501-3,000 by market cap. SMMD was launched on Jul 6, 2017 and is managed by BlackRock.