Blue Edge Capital LLC Purchases Shares of 48,488 Vanguard Energy ETF $VDE

Blue Edge Capital LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:VDE) in the second quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund bought 48,488 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,293,000.

Several other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in VDE. SouthState Bank Corp bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF in the 4th quarter worth about $27,000. Strive Financial Group LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF in the fourth quarter worth $31,000. Godfrey Financial Associates Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF during the 4th quarter valued at about $33,000. Matrix Private Capital Group LLC acquired a new position in Vanguard Energy ETF in the first quarter valued at approximately $33,000. Finally, Franklin Resources Inc. boosted its holdings in Vanguard Energy ETF by 3,055.6% during the fourth quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. now owns 284 shares of the company’s stock worth $36,000 after buying an additional 275 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Energy ETF Stock Down 0.1%

NYSEARCA:VDE opened at $175.74 on Friday. Vanguard Energy ETF has a 52 week low of $119.84 and a 52 week high of $182.15. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $163.63 and its 200-day moving average price is $162.73. The stock has a market capitalization of $10.54 billion, a PE ratio of 14.10 and a beta of 0.43.

Vanguard Energy ETF Company Profile

Vanguard Energy ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Energy Index Fund. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) US Investable Market Energy Index (the Index), an index of stocks of large, medium and small United States companies in the energy sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). This GICS sector is made up of companies whose businesses are dominated by activities, such as the construction or provision of oil rigs, drilling equipment, and other energy-related service and equipment (such as seismic data collection), or companies engaged in the exploration, production, marketing, refining, and/or transportation of oil and gas products.