Short Interest in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Drops By 41.8%

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) was the target of a large decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 203,673 shares, a decline of 41.8% from the December 31st total of 350,229 shares. Approximately 0.1% of the shares of the company are sold short. Based on an average daily volume of 696,468 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.3 days. Based on an average daily volume of 696,468 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.3 days. Approximately 0.1% of the shares of the company are sold short.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Price Performance

Shares of NYSEARCA:VBR traded down $0.98 during trading on Friday, hitting $223.09. The company had a trading volume of 339,828 shares, compared to its average volume of 527,106. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $217.12 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $209.80. The stock has a market cap of $33.93 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 1.05. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a one year low of $160.23 and a one year high of $229.19.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in VBR. Aspiriant LLC boosted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.0% in the third quarter. Aspiriant LLC now owns 1,527,300 shares of the company’s stock valued at $318,763,000 after acquiring an additional 43,846 shares during the last quarter. First Horizon Corp acquired a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the third quarter valued at about $4,635,000. Whitaker Myers Wealth Managers LTD. grew its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 7.7% in the 3rd quarter. Whitaker Myers Wealth Managers LTD. now owns 100,778 shares of the company’s stock valued at $21,033,000 after purchasing an additional 7,230 shares during the period. FWG Investments LLC. bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the second quarter worth $456,000. Finally, Brown Advisory Inc. increased its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 12.3% during the 2nd quarter. Brown Advisory Inc. now owns 41,777 shares of the company’s stock worth $8,147,000 after purchasing an additional 4,560 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Company Profile

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Small Cap Value Index (the Index). The Index is a diversified index of value 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.