Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VOT) Short Interest Up 101.2% in July

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VOT) saw a large growth in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 249,946 shares, a growth of 101.2% from the July 15th total of 124,214 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 190,586 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.3 days. Currently, 0.4% of the shares of the company are short sold.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Annis Gardner Whiting Capital Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF during the 1st quarter worth $28,000. Acumen Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF in the 4th quarter valued at about $29,000. C M Bidwell & Associates Ltd. purchased a new position in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF in the 2nd quarter valued at about $32,000. Wellington Grp LLC lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 87.0% in the first quarter. Wellington Grp LLC now owns 129 shares of the company’s stock valued at $33,000 after purchasing an additional 60 shares during the period. Finally, Entrust Financial LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter valued at about $46,000.

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF Price Performance

NYSEARCA VOT traded up $0.58 on Friday, hitting $314.02. 142,787 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 228,561. The firm has a market cap of $20.41 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.98 and a beta of 1.16. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $300.56 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $285.56. Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF has a fifty-two week low of $248.23 and a fifty-two week high of $315.14.

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF Company Profile

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