Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) Reaches New 1-Year High – Still a Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) shares hit a new 52-week high on Monday . The company traded as high as $359.11 and last traded at $358.56, with a volume of 20470 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $356.54.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Trading Down 0.0%

The company has a market capitalization of $23.81 billion, a PE ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $341.89 and its 200-day simple moving average is $322.51.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

Large investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Simplex Trading LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the 4th quarter valued at $27,000. Birchbrook Inc. bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the 4th quarter worth $29,000. Advisortrust Partners LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the 1st quarter worth $29,000. Bollard Group LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the 1st quarter worth $34,000. Finally, Acumen Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter valued at $39,000.

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.