Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Sets New 12-Month High – Here’s Why

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR)’s share price reached a new 52-week high during trading on Thursday . The company traded as high as $245.65 and last traded at $245.41, with a volume of 30282 shares. The stock had previously closed at $242.52.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Trading Up 1.2%

The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $237.01 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $228.69. The firm has a market cap of $37.26 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of VBR. Valpey Financial Services LLC increased its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 21,125.3% in the fourth quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC now owns 4,270,098 shares of the company’s stock worth $904,364,000 after purchasing an additional 4,249,980 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE grew its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 15,999,348 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,388,502,000 after buying an additional 560,544 shares during the period. Align Financial LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 4th quarter valued at $97,410,000. Focus Partners Wealth lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 53.8% during the 4th quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 849,534 shares of the company’s stock valued at $179,915,000 after acquiring an additional 297,074 shares during the period. Finally, Corient Private Wealth LLC lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 128.8% during the 2nd quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 505,618 shares of the company’s stock valued at $98,654,000 after acquiring an additional 284,655 shares during the period.

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.