Teacher Retirement System of Texas Has $52.99 Million Stock Holdings in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF $GDXJ

Teacher Retirement System of Texas grew its holdings in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ) by 104.2% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 784,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after buying an additional 400,000 shares during the quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas owned 0.97% of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF worth $52,991,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

A number of other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the business. Farther Finance Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 58.5% in the 2nd quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 474 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $32,000 after buying an additional 175 shares in the last quarter. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC raised its stake in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 3.1% in the 2nd quarter. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC now owns 5,827 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $399,000 after buying an additional 177 shares in the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. raised its stake in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 5.3% in the 1st quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. now owns 4,857 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $278,000 after buying an additional 245 shares in the last quarter. New Harbor Financial Group LLC raised its stake in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 0.4% in the 1st quarter. New Harbor Financial Group LLC now owns 63,605 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $3,638,000 after buying an additional 263 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Cerity Partners LLC raised its stake in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 0.8% in the 1st quarter. Cerity Partners LLC now owns 33,946 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,942,000 after buying an additional 275 shares in the last quarter.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Stock Performance

GDXJ opened at $94.87 on Monday. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $91.12 and its 200-day simple moving average is $74.73. VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF has a twelve month low of $41.85 and a twelve month high of $112.45. The firm has a market cap of $8.13 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.09 and a beta of 1.06.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Profile

Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners Index (the Index). The Index provides exposure to a global universe of publicly traded small- and medium-capitalization companies that generate at least 50% of their revenues from gold and/or silver mining, hold real property that has the potential to produce at least 50% of the Company’s revenue from gold or silver mining when developed, or primarily invest in gold or silver.