Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Reaches New 12-Month High – Still a Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR)’s stock price reached a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Monday . The company traded as high as $244.00 and last traded at $243.54, with a volume of 40513 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $241.32.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Performance

The business’s 50 day moving average is $230.96 and its 200-day moving average is $224.20. The firm has a market capitalization of $36.32 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Valpey Financial Services LLC boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 21,125.3% during the 4th quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC now owns 4,270,098 shares of the company’s stock valued at $904,364,000 after acquiring an additional 4,249,980 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 15,999,348 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,388,502,000 after purchasing an additional 560,544 shares during the last quarter. Align Financial LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the 4th quarter valued at about $97,410,000. Focus Partners Wealth boosted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 53.8% in the 4th quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 849,534 shares of the company’s stock worth $179,915,000 after acquiring an additional 297,074 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Corient Private Wealth LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 128.8% in the 2nd quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 505,618 shares of the company’s stock worth $98,654,000 after acquiring an additional 284,655 shares in the last quarter.

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.