Checchi Capital Advisers LLC Buys 23,174 Shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK

Checchi Capital Advisers LLC boosted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) by 853.6% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 25,889 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 23,174 shares during the quarter. Checchi Capital Advisers LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF were worth $7,705,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Brighton Jones LLC lifted its holdings 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 during the period. AQR Capital Management LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the first quarter valued at approximately $273,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 4.4% during the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 62,656 shares of the company’s stock valued at $15,775,000 after purchasing an additional 2,630 shares in the last quarter. Ascent Group LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the second quarter worth $209,000. Finally, Valeo Financial Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 109.6% during the second quarter. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC now owns 12,933 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,582,000 after purchasing an additional 6,763 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

Shares of VBK stock opened at $314.51 on Wednesday. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a fifty-two week low of $214.77 and a fifty-two week high of $329.04. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $312.02 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $300.71. The company has a market cap of $21.51 billion, a PE ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17.

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.