Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (VBK) to Issue Quarterly Dividend of $0.30 on September 30th

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 27th. Investors of record on Monday, September 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.3039 per share on Wednesday, September 30th. This represents a $1.22 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.4%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, September 28th. This is a 17.0% decrease from Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.3662.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

Shares of NYSEARCA:VBK opened at $341.36 on Friday. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a 52-week low of $280.27 and a 52-week high of $367.04. The company has a market capitalization of $23.14 billion, a PE ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17. The company has a fifty day moving average of $348.80 and a 200-day moving average of $340.33.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. QRG Capital Management Inc. grew its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 3.5% during the 2nd quarter. QRG Capital Management Inc. now owns 2,123 shares of the company’s stock worth $777,000 after acquiring an additional 71 shares during the last quarter. Talon Private Wealth LLC raised its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 86.5% during the 2nd quarter. Talon Private Wealth LLC now owns 20,720 shares of the company’s stock worth $7,577,000 after purchasing an additional 9,611 shares during the last quarter. MCF Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 3,018.8% during the 2nd quarter. MCF Advisors LLC now owns 3,150 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,152,000 after buying an additional 3,049 shares during the period. Capital Analysts LLC lifted its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 5.8% during the 2nd quarter. Capital Analysts LLC now owns 801 shares of the company’s stock worth $294,000 after buying an additional 44 shares during the period. Finally, Capital Advantage Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the 2nd quarter valued at about $438,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Company Profile

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.