Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Hits New 52-Week High – Still a Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) shares hit a new 52-week high during trading on Tuesday . The stock traded as high as $218.96 and last traded at $219.0740, with a volume of 398795 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $217.05.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Performance

The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $210.28 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $206.50. The stock has a market cap of $33.20 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 1.05.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Westfuller Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the third quarter worth approximately $29,000. Balentine LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the third quarter worth $29,000. Blume Capital Management Inc. acquired a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the 2nd quarter valued at $29,000. Traub Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 2nd quarter valued at $30,000. Finally, Financial Gravity Companies Inc. bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 2nd quarter valued at $33,000.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

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