Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) Reaches New 12-Month High – Still a Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK)’s stock price reached a new 52-week high during trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $361.62 and last traded at $361.42, with a volume of 233838 shares. The stock had previously closed at $357.56.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

The company has a market capitalization of $24.14 billion, a PE ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17. The company’s 50-day moving average is $345.31 and its 200 day moving average is $324.31.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Basecamp Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the 1st quarter worth approximately $31,000. Sapient Capital LLC boosted its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 1.3% in the 1st quarter. Sapient Capital LLC now owns 8,093 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,446,000 after buying an additional 103 shares during the last quarter. Steelhead Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the first quarter worth $589,000. Curry Webb Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the first quarter valued at $453,000. Finally, FAS Wealth Partners Inc. increased its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 1.1% during the first quarter. FAS Wealth Partners Inc. now owns 9,216 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,785,000 after acquiring an additional 100 shares during the last quarter.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

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.