Verus Financial Partners Inc. Cuts Position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF $VBR

Verus Financial Partners Inc. trimmed its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) by 4.7% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 137,820 shares of the company’s stock after selling 6,742 shares during the period. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF makes up approximately 2.8% of Verus Financial Partners Inc.’s holdings, making the stock its 12th biggest holding. Verus Financial Partners Inc. owned approximately 0.09% of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF worth $30,925,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of VBR. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.4% in the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 15,438,804 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,222,233,000 after purchasing an additional 209,142 shares during the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 2.7% in the fourth quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 4,379,433 shares of the company’s stock worth $927,520,000 after buying an additional 113,412 shares during the last quarter. Aspiriant LLC lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 6.1% during the fourth quarter. Aspiriant LLC now owns 1,620,708 shares of the company’s stock worth $343,249,000 after buying an additional 93,408 shares during the period. Sei Investments Co. lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.8% during the third quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 1,452,261 shares of the company’s stock worth $303,097,000 after buying an additional 25,434 shares during the period. Finally, Captrust Financial Advisors increased its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 7.7% in the 3rd quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 1,224,488 shares of the company’s stock valued at $255,563,000 after acquiring an additional 87,902 shares during the period.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Performance

Shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF stock opened at $232.42 on Friday. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $223.90 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $218.46. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a fifty-two week low of $178.98 and a fifty-two week high of $235.48. The company has a market cap of $34.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 1.00.

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.