Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK Shares Purchased by Assetmark Inc.

Assetmark Inc. raised its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) by 2.8% in the first quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 1,609,318 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 44,440 shares during the period. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF makes up approximately 1.0% of Assetmark Inc.’s portfolio, making the stock its 22nd biggest holding. Assetmark Inc.’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF were worth $486,416,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Simplex Trading LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the 4th quarter valued at $27,000. Birchbrook Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter worth $29,000. Acumen Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter valued at $39,000. MV Capital Management Inc. purchased a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter valued at $41,000. Finally, Eagle Bay Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter valued at $47,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Price Performance

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF stock opened at $346.16 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $23.49 billion, a PE ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.16. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $350.92 and its two-hundred day moving average is $329.12. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a 1-year low of $273.57 and a 1-year high of $366.86.

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.