Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) Sees Significant Increase in Short Interest

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) saw a large increase in short interest in the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 446,612 shares, an increase of 18.8% from the March 31st total of 376,091 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 231,342 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.9 days. Approximately 0.7% of the company’s stock are sold short.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

Large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Brighton Jones LLC boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 1.3% during the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 11,160 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,125,000 after acquiring an additional 142 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the 1st quarter worth about $273,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 4.4% during the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 62,656 shares of the company’s stock worth $15,775,000 after acquiring an additional 2,630 shares in the last quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 30.1% during the 2nd quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 652 shares of the company’s stock worth $181,000 after acquiring an additional 151 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Glenview Trust co boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 12.2% during the 2nd quarter. Glenview Trust co now owns 2,753 shares of the company’s stock worth $762,000 after acquiring an additional 300 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Price Performance

Shares of NYSEARCA VBK opened at $337.36 on Friday. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $316.12 and its two-hundred day moving average is $310.78. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a 1-year low of $251.35 and a 1-year high of $341.93. The company has a market cap of $22.53 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17.

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.