Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. Grows Stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF $VBR

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. boosted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) by 1.6% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 385,819 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 6,026 shares during the quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. owned about 0.25% of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF worth $93,750,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Wedbush Securities Inc. raised its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.4% during the second quarter. Wedbush Securities Inc. now owns 5,142 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,249,000 after buying an additional 73 shares during the last quarter. Field & Main Bank purchased a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the second quarter valued at $146,000. FSA Advisors Inc. purchased a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the second quarter valued at $213,000. McMill Wealth Management increased its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 23,929.0% in the 2nd quarter. McMill Wealth Management now owns 605,531 shares of the company’s stock valued at $147,138,000 after acquiring an additional 603,011 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Port Capital LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 2nd quarter valued at $200,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Down 0.7%

Shares of VBR stock opened at $243.64 on Wednesday. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $245.63 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $234.54. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a 52 week low of $198.76 and a 52 week high of $251.85. The stock has a market cap of $36.99 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Profile

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.