Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) Reaches New 52-Week High – Still a Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) shares reached a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $359.06 and last traded at $357.56, with a volume of 15823 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $350.81.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Trading Down 1.3%

The business has a 50-day moving average price of $339.29 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $321.41. The stock has a market capitalization of $23.52 billion, a P/E ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

A number of institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Corient Private Wealth LLC increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 100.8% in the second quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 1,924,932 shares of the company’s stock valued at $533,099,000 after buying an additional 966,444 shares during the period. EP Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter worth approximately $234,537,000. Gen Wealth Partners Inc grew its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 11,209.1% during the fourth quarter. Gen Wealth Partners Inc now owns 392,425 shares of the company’s stock worth $118,556,000 after purchasing an additional 388,955 shares during the period. Align Financial LLC acquired a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter worth approximately $87,255,000. Finally, Bank of America Corp DE grew its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 2.7% during the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 10,257,972 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,099,036,000 after purchasing an additional 268,570 shares during the period.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Company Profile

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.