Royal Bank of Canada Buys 59,371 Shares of Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF $VIOV

Royal Bank of Canada raised its stake in shares of Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VIOV) by 200.6% in the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 88,966 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 59,371 shares during the quarter. Royal Bank of Canada’s holdings in Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF were worth $9,051,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of VIOV. Waverly Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF by 11.2% in the 1st quarter. Waverly Advisors LLC now owns 9,363 shares of the company’s stock valued at $953,000 after acquiring an additional 943 shares during the period. Assetmark Inc. grew its holdings in Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF by 12.8% during the first quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 9,931 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,010,000 after purchasing an additional 1,124 shares during the period. D.A. Davidson & CO. grew its holdings in Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF by 20.9% during the first quarter. D.A. Davidson & CO. now owns 52,380 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,329,000 after purchasing an additional 9,067 shares during the period. Valmark Advisers Inc. increased its stake in Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF by 7.7% in the first quarter. Valmark Advisers Inc. now owns 4,745 shares of the company’s stock valued at $483,000 after purchasing an additional 338 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Fifth Third Bancorp increased its stake in Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF by 294.1% in the first quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 5,706 shares of the company’s stock valued at $581,000 after purchasing an additional 4,258 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF Stock Performance

VIOV opened at $119.48 on Monday. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $115.94 and its two-hundred day moving average is $109.66. The firm has a market cap of $1.89 billion, a PE ratio of 13.90 and a beta of 1.00. Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF has a twelve month low of $87.19 and a twelve month high of $120.65.

Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF Profile

The Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (VIOV) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the S&P Small Cap 600 Value index. The fund tracks a market cap-weighted index of small-cap value companies selected from the S&P 600. VIOV was launched on Sep 7, 2010 and is managed by Vanguard.