Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Reaches New 12-Month High – Still a Buy?

Shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) hit a new 52-week high during trading on Friday . The company traded as high as $251.85 and last traded at $251.85, with a volume of 27929 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $251.00.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Price Performance

The stock has a market cap of $38.17 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $243.01 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $232.63.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Bank of America Corp DE increased its holdings 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 worth $3,388,502,000 after purchasing an additional 560,544 shares in the last quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 21,125.3% in the fourth 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 in the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 0.6% during the fourth quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 1,438,715 shares of the company’s stock valued at $304,705,000 after buying an additional 8,609 shares during the last quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 0.9% during the fourth quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 1,236,013 shares of the company’s stock valued at $261,775,000 after buying an additional 11,525 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Cetera Investment Advisers grew its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 2.8% during the first quarter. Cetera Investment Advisers now owns 1,164,853 shares of the company’s stock worth $253,064,000 after buying an additional 31,607 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.