HighTower Advisors LLC Trims Position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF $VBR

HighTower Advisors LLC decreased its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) by 0.8% in the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 815,198 shares of the company’s stock after selling 6,333 shares during the quarter. HighTower Advisors LLC owned approximately 0.54% of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF worth $170,146,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Brighton Jones LLC grew its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.9% in the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 23,239 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,605,000 after purchasing an additional 444 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC raised its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 65.8% during the 1st quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 15,403 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,870,000 after purchasing an additional 6,114 shares in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 1.5% in the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 327,501 shares of the company’s stock worth $61,010,000 after buying an additional 4,879 shares during the period. Signature Estate & Investment Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 33.5% during the 2nd quarter. Signature Estate & Investment Advisors LLC now owns 24,228 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,725,000 after buying an additional 6,074 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Gladwyn Financial Advisors Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the second quarter valued at $9,628,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Price Performance

VBR stock opened at $231.31 on Monday. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a 1-year low of $160.23 and a 1-year high of $235.48. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $220.87 and a 200 day moving average price of $211.83. The company has a market capitalization of $35.18 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 1.05.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

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.