Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) Hits New 12-Month High – Here’s Why

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK)’s stock price reached a new 52-week high on Thursday . The company traded as high as $331.02 and last traded at $330.08, with a volume of 13839 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $328.37.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

The stock has a 50-day moving average of $313.06 and a two-hundred day moving average of $308.74. The company has a market cap of $22.43 billion, a P/E ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.16.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of VBK. Simplex Trading LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Sound Income Strategies LLC lifted its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 57.6% in the third quarter. Sound Income Strategies LLC now owns 93 shares of the company’s stock valued at $28,000 after purchasing an additional 34 shares during the last quarter. Davis Capital Management bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the third quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Birchbrook Inc. bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Finally, Balentine LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the third quarter valued at approximately $30,000.

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.