First Trust Advisors LP Grows Stock Holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF $VBR

First Trust Advisors LP lifted its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) by 1,899.6% in the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 40,612 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 38,581 shares during the quarter. First Trust Advisors LP’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF were worth $8,823,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other large investors also recently made changes to their positions in VBR. Fortis Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 0.4% in the 1st quarter. Fortis Capital Management LLC now owns 39,528 shares of the company’s stock valued at $8,587,000 after acquiring an additional 163 shares during the period. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. boosted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 2.6% during the 1st quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 846,309 shares of the company’s stock worth $183,861,000 after purchasing an additional 21,114 shares during the period. Burling Wealth Partners LLC boosted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 15.1% during the 1st quarter. Burling Wealth Partners LLC now owns 2,290 shares of the company’s stock worth $498,000 after purchasing an additional 300 shares during the period. Glenview Trust Co increased its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 6.5% in the 1st quarter. Glenview Trust Co now owns 2,860 shares of the company’s stock valued at $621,000 after purchasing an additional 174 shares in the last quarter. Finally, JMG Financial Group Ltd. increased its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.1% in the 1st quarter. JMG Financial Group Ltd. now owns 392,210 shares of the company’s stock valued at $85,208,000 after purchasing an additional 4,125 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Price Performance

NYSEARCA:VBR opened at $244.63 on Friday. The business’s 50-day moving average is $240.38 and its two-hundred day moving average is $230.97. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a 12 month low of $193.00 and a 12 month high of $248.28. The firm has a market capitalization of $37.14 billion, a PE ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

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.