Whitaker Myers Wealth Managers LTD. Raises Holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF $VBR

Whitaker Myers Wealth Managers LTD. increased its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) by 6.3% during the second quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 114,681 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 6,809 shares during the period. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF accounts for about 4.7% of Whitaker Myers Wealth Managers LTD.’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 7th largest holding. Whitaker Myers Wealth Managers LTD.’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF were worth $27,866,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. Brighton Jones LLC boosted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.9% during the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 23,239 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,605,000 after buying an additional 444 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 65.8% in the 1st quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 15,403 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,870,000 after buying an additional 6,114 shares in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.5% in the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 327,501 shares of the company’s stock valued at $61,010,000 after buying an additional 4,879 shares in the last quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. lifted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 29.4% during the second quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 2,370 shares of the company’s stock worth $462,000 after purchasing an additional 538 shares during the period. Finally, Glenview Trust co lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 38.9% during the 2nd quarter. Glenview Trust co now owns 3,262 shares of the company’s stock worth $636,000 after buying an additional 914 shares during the period.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Performance

Shares of NYSEARCA VBR opened at $249.90 on Friday. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a 52-week low of $197.48 and a 52-week high of $251.66. The business has a fifty day moving average of $241.85 and a two-hundred day moving average of $231.88. The stock has a market cap of $37.94 billion, a PE ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

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.