Janney Montgomery Scott LLC Grows Stock Position in Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF $VMBS

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (NASDAQ:VMBS) by 1.8% in the 2nd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 831,647 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after buying an additional 15,095 shares during the quarter. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF were worth $38,539,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of VMBS. Mather Group LLC. lifted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF by 6,012.2% in the 2nd quarter. Mather Group LLC. now owns 6,470,848 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $299,859,000 after acquiring an additional 6,364,981 shares during the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its position in Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF by 4.7% in the 1st quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 48,706,894 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $2,255,686,000 after purchasing an additional 2,196,520 shares during the period. Raymond James Financial Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF by 25.1% during the 1st quarter. Raymond James Financial Inc. now owns 5,517,380 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $255,510,000 after acquiring an additional 1,107,390 shares during the last quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF by 5.0% during the first quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 20,860,251 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $966,038,000 after purchasing an additional 1,000,394 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Jones Financial Companies Lllp lifted its holdings in Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF by 2,169.7% during the 1st quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 682,872 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $33,743,000 after buying an additional 652,785 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF Trading Down 0.1%

Shares of VMBS stock opened at $46.96 on Wednesday. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $46.58 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $46.09. Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF has a twelve month low of $44.65 and a twelve month high of $47.38.

About Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF

Vanguard Mortgage Backed Securities ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted, mortgage-backed securities index. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. MBS Float Adjusted Index (the Index).