Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Hits New 12-Month High – Time to Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) shares hit a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as $227.62 and last traded at $226.6630, with a volume of 435240 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $221.65.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Up 2.4%

The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $213.74 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $208.51. The stock has a market cap of $34.52 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 1.05.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

A number of institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Aspiriant LLC grew its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.0% during the third quarter. Aspiriant LLC now owns 1,527,300 shares of the company’s stock worth $318,763,000 after acquiring an additional 43,846 shares during the last quarter. First Horizon Corp bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 3rd quarter valued at about $4,635,000. Whitaker Myers Wealth Managers LTD. boosted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 7.7% during the 3rd quarter. Whitaker Myers Wealth Managers LTD. now owns 100,778 shares of the company’s stock valued at $21,033,000 after purchasing an additional 7,230 shares during the period. FWG Investments LLC. acquired a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the 2nd quarter valued at about $456,000. Finally, Brown Advisory Inc. grew its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 12.3% in the 2nd quarter. Brown Advisory Inc. now owns 41,777 shares of the company’s stock worth $8,147,000 after purchasing an additional 4,560 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Company 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.