Vanguard Extended Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VXF) Sets New 52-Week High – Time to Buy?

Shares of Vanguard Extended Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VXF) hit a new 52-week high on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as $232.05 and last traded at $230.72, with a volume of 15735 shares. The stock had previously closed at $229.28.

Vanguard Extended Market ETF Trading Up 0.2%

The company has a market cap of $28.65 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.00 and a beta of 1.13. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $214.81 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $213.65.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Extended Market ETF

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Brighton Jones LLC grew its position in shares of Vanguard Extended Market ETF by 1.8% in the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 4,177 shares of the company’s stock worth $794,000 after acquiring an additional 75 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC raised its position in shares of Vanguard Extended Market ETF by 45.8% during the 1st quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 7,065 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,217,000 after acquiring an additional 2,218 shares in the last quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. lifted its stake in Vanguard Extended Market ETF by 10.3% during the second quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. now owns 871 shares of the company’s stock worth $168,000 after purchasing an additional 81 shares during the last quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. lifted its stake in Vanguard Extended Market ETF by 26.9% during the second quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 1,222 shares of the company’s stock worth $236,000 after purchasing an additional 259 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Qube Research & Technologies Ltd acquired a new position in Vanguard Extended Market ETF in the second quarter worth $98,000.

About Vanguard Extended Market ETF

Vanguard Extended Market ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Extended Market Stock Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor’s Completion Index (the Index), a diversified index of stocks of small and medium-sized United States companies. The Index contains all of the United States common stocks regularly traded on the New York and American Stock Exchanges, and the Nasdaq over-the-counter market, except those stocks included in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.