Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) Sets New 1-Year High – Should You Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK)’s share price hit a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Thursday . The stock traded as high as $329.04 and last traded at $327.5530, with a volume of 60396 shares. The stock had previously closed at $325.24.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $306.56 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $298.12. The company has a market cap of $22.39 billion, a PE ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Intergy Private Wealth LLC boosted its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 1.6% during the 4th quarter. Intergy Private Wealth LLC now owns 4,227 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,277,000 after buying an additional 65 shares during the period. Elm3 Financial Group LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter worth $864,000. Fiduciary Alliance LLC raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 2.5% during the fourth quarter. Fiduciary Alliance LLC now owns 4,613 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,393,000 after acquiring an additional 112 shares in the last quarter. Capital Investment Advisory Services LLC boosted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 23.7% during the fourth quarter. Capital Investment Advisory Services LLC now owns 2,276 shares of the company’s stock valued at $688,000 after purchasing an additional 436 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Capital Advisory Group Advisory Services LLC grew its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 3.3% in the fourth quarter. Capital Advisory Group Advisory Services LLC now owns 1,105 shares of the company’s stock valued at $334,000 after purchasing an additional 35 shares in the last quarter.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

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.