Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) Reaches New 12-Month High – Time to Buy?

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) shares reached a new 52-week high during trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $363.72 and last traded at $363.51, with a volume of 676974 shares. The stock had previously closed at $362.87.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Stock Up 0.2%

The stock has a market cap of $635.34 billion, a PE ratio of 24.26 and a beta of 1.01. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $336.25 and a 200 day moving average price of $336.35.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 3.8% in the fourth quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 62,622,049 shares of the company’s stock worth $20,995,293,000 after purchasing an additional 2,291,938 shares during the last quarter. Rakuten Investment Management Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF in the third quarter worth about $15,530,622,000. Wealthfront Advisers LLC grew its stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 0.9% in the fourth quarter. Wealthfront Advisers LLC now owns 18,025,283 shares of the company’s stock worth $6,043,337,000 after purchasing an additional 163,272 shares during the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE grew its stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 2.5% in the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 14,185,248 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,755,888,000 after purchasing an additional 343,136 shares during the last quarter. Finally, LPL Financial LLC grew its stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 2.0% in the fourth quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 14,079,780 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,720,528,000 after purchasing an additional 277,939 shares during the last quarter. 28.92% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Company Profile

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the of the MSCI US Broad Market Index, which represents 99.5% or more of the total market capitalization of all of the United States common stocks traded on the New York and American Stock Exchanges and the Nasdaq over-the-counter market. The Fund typically holds the largest 1,200 to 1,300 stocks in its target index (covering nearly 95% of the index’s total market capitalization) and a representative sample of the remaining stocks.