Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK Stock: Mather Group LLC. Grows Stake

Mather Group LLC. grew its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) by 4.5% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 677,384 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 28,918 shares during the period. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF makes up about 1.9% of Mather Group LLC.’s holdings, making the stock its 13th largest position. Mather Group LLC.’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF were worth $228,841,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in VBK. First Bancorp Inc ME bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the second quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Advisortrust Partners LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the first quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Basecamp Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the first quarter worth approximately $31,000. Bollard Group LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the first quarter worth approximately $34,000. Finally, MV Capital Management Inc. bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter worth approximately $41,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Price Performance

VBK opened at $330.73 on Thursday. The company has a market capitalization of $22.37 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.18. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a 1-year low of $280.27 and a 1-year high of $367.04. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $347.83 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $343.73.

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.