Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Reaches New 52-Week High – Should You Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR)’s share price hit a new 52-week high during trading on Wednesday . The company traded as high as $235.68 and last traded at $234.70, with a volume of 97398 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $232.13.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Up 1.3%

The business has a 50 day moving average of $223.89 and a 200 day moving average of $218.80. The company has a market capitalization of $35.26 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.97.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.6% during the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 15,999,348 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,388,502,000 after buying an additional 560,544 shares during the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. boosted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 2.7% during the fourth quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 4,379,433 shares of the company’s stock valued at $927,520,000 after buying an additional 113,412 shares during the last quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC boosted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 21,125.3% during the fourth quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC now owns 4,270,098 shares of the company’s stock valued at $904,364,000 after buying an additional 4,249,980 shares during the last quarter. Aspiriant LLC boosted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 6.1% during the fourth quarter. Aspiriant LLC now owns 1,620,708 shares of the company’s stock valued at $343,249,000 after buying an additional 93,408 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Sei Investments Co. boosted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.8% during the third quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 1,452,261 shares of the company’s stock valued at $303,097,000 after buying an additional 25,434 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.