HighTower Advisors LLC Sells 2,645 Shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK

HighTower Advisors LLC decreased its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) by 0.8% in the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 337,484 shares of the company’s stock after selling 2,645 shares during the period. HighTower Advisors LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF were worth $101,957,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in VBK. Corient Private Wealth LLC increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 100.8% during the second quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 1,924,932 shares of the company’s stock valued at $533,099,000 after purchasing an additional 966,444 shares in the last quarter. M&T Bank Corp increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 506.1% during the fourth quarter. M&T Bank Corp now owns 87,557 shares of the company’s stock valued at $26,452,000 after purchasing an additional 73,110 shares in the last quarter. Congress Asset Management Co. increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 175.1% during the fourth quarter. Congress Asset Management Co. now owns 111,812 shares of the company’s stock valued at $33,780,000 after purchasing an additional 71,162 shares in the last quarter. CWM LLC increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 121.7% during the fourth quarter. CWM LLC now owns 115,034 shares of the company’s stock valued at $34,753,000 after purchasing an additional 63,148 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Quent Long Short Global Small Cap Fund LP bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $18,942,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Down 0.7%

Shares of VBK opened at $332.30 on Wednesday. The company has a market capitalization of $22.19 billion, a P/E ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $321.26 and a 200 day moving average of $313.78. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a twelve month low of $257.89 and a twelve month high of $349.26.

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.