Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Reaches New 12-Month High – Still a Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR)’s stock price hit a new 52-week high during trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $244.00 and last traded at $243.54, with a volume of 40513 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $241.32.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Trading Up 0.4%

The firm has a market cap of $36.32 billion, a PE ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96. The company’s 50-day moving average is $230.96 and its 200 day moving average is $224.20.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. TCI Wealth Advisors Inc. increased its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.5% in the 1st quarter. TCI Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 3,015 shares of the company’s stock valued at $655,000 after buying an additional 44 shares during the period. J. Derek Lewis & Associates Inc. raised its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.1% during the first quarter. J. Derek Lewis & Associates Inc. now owns 4,087 shares of the company’s stock valued at $888,000 after buying an additional 44 shares in the last quarter. Hazlett Burt & Watson Inc. raised its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 4.1% during the fourth quarter. Hazlett Burt & Watson Inc. now owns 1,201 shares of the company’s stock valued at $254,000 after buying an additional 47 shares in the last quarter. Horizon Investment Services LLC raised its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.3% during the fourth quarter. Horizon Investment Services LLC now owns 1,470 shares of the company’s stock valued at $311,000 after buying an additional 47 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Echo45 Advisors LLC grew its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 0.3% in the 1st quarter. Echo45 Advisors LLC now owns 17,686 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,842,000 after buying an additional 47 shares during the last quarter.

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.