HighTower Advisors LLC Raises Stock Position in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF $IJR

HighTower Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:IJR) by 4.5% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 2,977,717 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after acquiring an additional 128,435 shares during the period. HighTower Advisors LLC’s holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF were worth $353,848,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Brighton Jones LLC grew its holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 24.3% during the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 29,944 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $3,450,000 after acquiring an additional 5,853 shares in the last quarter. Heck Capital Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $55,011,000. AQR Capital Management LLC increased its holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 80.7% during the first quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 17,964 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,878,000 after buying an additional 8,025 shares during the period. Millennium Management LLC purchased a new position in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF during the first quarter valued at approximately $5,503,000. Finally, Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC raised its stake in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 11.1% in the second quarter. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC now owns 5,845 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $639,000 after buying an additional 582 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 66.92% of the company’s stock.

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF Trading Up 1.2%

Shares of NYSEARCA IJR opened at $130.95 on Friday. iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF has a 12-month low of $89.22 and a 12-month high of $133.52. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $125.92 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $120.38. The stock has a market capitalization of $96.29 billion, a PE ratio of 16.52 and a beta of 1.08.

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF Company Profile

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF, formerly iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Index Fund, seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Standard & Poor’s SmallCap 600 Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of publicly traded securities in the small-capitalization sector of the United States equity market. The Index serves as the underlying index for the S&P 600/Citigroup Growth and Value Index series. The component stocks are weighted according to the total float-adjusted market value of their outstanding shares.