Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK Shares Bought by Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) by 32.7% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 302,816 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 74,586 shares during the period. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF were worth $91,484,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of VBK. Bank of America Corp DE raised its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 0.4% during the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 9,989,402 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,973,046,000 after purchasing an additional 36,393 shares during the period. Corient Private Wealth LLC increased its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 100.8% during the 2nd quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 1,924,932 shares of the company’s stock worth $533,099,000 after buying an additional 966,444 shares during the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 0.9% during the 4th quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 1,564,878 shares of the company’s stock worth $472,765,000 after buying an additional 14,258 shares during the last quarter. Sei Investments Co. raised its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 1.2% in the 3rd quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 949,929 shares of the company’s stock worth $282,726,000 after buying an additional 11,152 shares during the period. Finally, PNC Financial Services Group Inc. boosted its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 1.5% in the fourth quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 694,339 shares of the company’s stock valued at $209,767,000 after acquiring an additional 10,397 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Price Performance

Shares of NYSEARCA:VBK opened at $355.58 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $23.75 billion, a PE ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17. The business has a 50-day moving average of $327.95 and a two-hundred day moving average of $316.44. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a 12 month low of $260.12 and a 12 month high of $356.00.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

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.