North Star Asset Management Inc. Purchases New Shares in Vanguard Energy ETF $VDE

North Star Asset Management Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:VDE) in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 18,094 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,717,000.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. BNP Paribas Financial Markets raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF by 23,247.2% in the second quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets now owns 353,477 shares of the company’s stock valued at $42,106,000 after buying an additional 351,963 shares during the last quarter. Shelter Mutual Insurance Co purchased a new position in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF during the second quarter worth about $26,914,000. Ameritas Advisory Services LLC grew its holdings in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF by 5,416.8% during the fourth quarter. Ameritas Advisory Services LLC now owns 195,956 shares of the company’s stock worth $24,675,000 after buying an additional 192,404 shares during the last quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC increased its position in Vanguard Energy ETF by 90.8% in the 2nd quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 307,070 shares of the company’s stock valued at $36,578,000 after acquiring an additional 146,147 shares during the period. Finally, TrueWealth Financial Partners acquired a new position in Vanguard Energy ETF in the 1st quarter valued at about $14,706,000.

Vanguard Energy ETF Stock Down 0.1%

VDE opened at $175.74 on Friday. Vanguard Energy ETF has a 52 week low of $119.84 and a 52 week high of $182.15. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $163.63 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $162.73. The company has a market cap of $10.54 billion, a PE ratio of 14.10 and a beta of 0.43.

Vanguard Energy ETF Profile

Vanguard Energy ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Energy Index Fund. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) US Investable Market Energy Index (the Index), an index of stocks of large, medium and small United States companies in the energy sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). This GICS sector is made up of companies whose businesses are dominated by activities, such as the construction or provision of oil rigs, drilling equipment, and other energy-related service and equipment (such as seismic data collection), or companies engaged in the exploration, production, marketing, refining, and/or transportation of oil and gas products.