Ballast Financial Advisors LLC Buys Shares of 5,064 Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF $VBR

Ballast Financial Advisors LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) during the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor bought 5,064 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,073,000. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF accounts for 1.1% of Ballast Financial Advisors LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 20th biggest holding.

Several other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of VBR. Balentine LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the third quarter worth $29,000. Motiv8 Investments LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the fourth quarter worth $29,000. Birchbrook Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the fourth quarter worth $30,000. Modus Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the fourth quarter worth $30,000. Finally, Toth Financial Advisory Corp acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the fourth quarter worth $36,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Down 1.5%

NYSEARCA:VBR opened at $236.93 on Thursday. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $232.20 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $224.81. The company has a market cap of $35.52 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a 52 week low of $188.95 and a 52 week high of $244.00.

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.