Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) Hits New 52-Week High – Time to Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) shares reached a new 52-week high on Monday . The stock traded as high as $361.62 and last traded at $361.42, with a volume of 233838 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $357.56.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Trading Down 0.7%

The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $346.54 and its 200-day moving average price is $325.10. The company has a market cap of $24.25 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Basecamp Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $31,000. Sapient Capital LLC lifted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 1.3% in the first quarter. Sapient Capital LLC now owns 8,093 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,446,000 after buying an additional 103 shares in the last quarter. Steelhead Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the first quarter valued at approximately $589,000. Curry Webb Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the first quarter worth $453,000. Finally, FAS Wealth Partners Inc. lifted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 1.1% in the 1st quarter. FAS Wealth Partners Inc. now owns 9,216 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,785,000 after acquiring an additional 100 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Company 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.