Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK Holdings Decreased by Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. reduced its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) by 92.4% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 17,358 shares of the company’s stock after selling 210,872 shares during the quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF were worth $5,244,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the company. Birchbrook Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter valued at about $29,000. Balentine LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the third quarter valued at about $30,000. Eagle Bay Advisors LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter valued at about $47,000. NBC Securities Inc. raised its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 24.3% during the fourth quarter. NBC Securities Inc. now owns 179 shares of the company’s stock valued at $54,000 after purchasing an additional 35 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Hantz Financial Services Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the third quarter valued at about $57,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Up 1.0%

Shares of NYSEARCA VBK opened at $347.12 on Friday. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $323.23 and its 200 day simple moving average is $314.57. The stock has a market cap of $23.18 billion, a P/E ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a fifty-two week low of $257.89 and a fifty-two week high of $349.26.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

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.