Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK Shares Sold by Royal Bank of Canada

Royal Bank of Canada reduced its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) by 1.4% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 293,554 shares of the company’s stock after selling 4,096 shares during the quarter. Royal Bank of Canada’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF were worth $88,726,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Corient Private Wealth LLC grew its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 100.8% during the 2nd quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 1,924,932 shares of the company’s stock worth $533,099,000 after purchasing an additional 966,444 shares during the last quarter. EP Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter worth $234,537,000. Gen Wealth Partners Inc lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 11,209.1% during the fourth quarter. Gen Wealth Partners Inc now owns 392,425 shares of the company’s stock worth $118,556,000 after buying an additional 388,955 shares during the period. Align Financial LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter worth $87,255,000. Finally, Bank of America Corp DE lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 2.7% during the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 10,257,972 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,099,036,000 after buying an additional 268,570 shares during the period.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Price Performance

Shares of VBK opened at $340.46 on Friday. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $351.15 and its 200-day moving average price is $331.45. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a 1-year low of $273.57 and a 1-year high of $366.86. The firm has a market capitalization of $23.10 billion, a PE ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.16.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Profile

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Small Cap Growth Index (the Index). The Index is a diversified index of growth 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.