Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Declares Quarterly Dividend of $1.03

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 27th. Shareholders of record on Monday, September 28th will be paid a dividend of $1.03 per share on Wednesday, September 30th. This represents a $4.12 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.7%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, September 28th. This is a 5.5% decrease from Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.0904.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Trading Up 0.5%

Shares of VBR stock opened at $236.51 on Friday. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $245.14 and a 200-day simple moving average of $235.98. The company has a market capitalization of $35.91 billion, a PE ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a twelve month low of $198.76 and a twelve month high of $251.85.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Greenspring Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 192.2% in the 4th quarter. Greenspring Advisors LLC now owns 9,423 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,996,000 after acquiring an additional 6,198 shares in the last quarter. Founders Financial Securities LLC boosted its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 113.1% in the fourth quarter. Founders Financial Securities LLC now owns 4,577 shares of the company’s stock worth $969,000 after purchasing an additional 2,429 shares during the period. Focus Partners Wealth boosted its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 53.8% in the fourth quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 849,534 shares of the company’s stock worth $179,915,000 after purchasing an additional 297,074 shares during the period. Strategic Advisors LLC increased its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 218.3% during the fourth quarter. Strategic Advisors LLC now owns 20,191 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,276,000 after purchasing an additional 13,847 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Park National Corp OH bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 1st quarter worth about $5,133,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Company Profile

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.