iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:IJR) Hits New 12-Month High – Still a Buy?

Shares of iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:IJR) reached a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $137.34 and last traded at $136.54, with a volume of 1072117 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $136.30.

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF Trading Up 0.1%

The company has a market cap of $101.41 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.52 and a beta of 1.02. The business has a fifty day moving average of $128.09 and a two-hundred day moving average of $124.46.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF

A number of institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Crewe Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 4.2% in the 4th quarter. Crewe Advisors LLC now owns 147,896 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $17,774,000 after acquiring an additional 5,956 shares during the last quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management raised its stake in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 10.0% during the third quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management now owns 111,945 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $13,302,000 after purchasing an additional 10,185 shares during the period. Resonant Capital Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 2.2% in the 4th quarter. Resonant Capital Advisors LLC now owns 274,785 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $33,024,000 after purchasing an additional 5,942 shares during the last quarter. Alaska Permanent Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 11.4% in the 3rd quarter. Alaska Permanent Capital Management LLC now owns 545,285 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $64,780,000 after purchasing an additional 55,761 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Fortitude Family Office LLC grew its stake in shares of iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 10.1% in the 4th quarter. Fortitude Family Office LLC now owns 45,833 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $5,508,000 after buying an additional 4,209 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 66.92% of the company’s stock.

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF Company Profile

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF, formerly iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Index Fund, seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Standard & Poor’s SmallCap 600 Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of publicly traded securities in the small-capitalization sector of the United States equity market. The Index serves as the underlying index for the S&P 600/Citigroup Growth and Value Index series. The component stocks are weighted according to the total float-adjusted market value of their outstanding shares.