Merit Financial Group LLC Purchases 14,120 Shares of Vanguard Total International Stock ETF $VXUS

Merit Financial Group LLC lifted its position in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (NASDAQ:VXUS) by 13.9% during the second quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 115,379 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 14,120 shares during the quarter. Merit Financial Group LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF were worth $9,864,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other large investors have also recently modified their holdings of VXUS. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its stake in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 87,491,307 shares of the company’s stock worth $6,600,343,000 after buying an additional 3,056,564 shares during the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Total International Stock ETF by 31.4% in the 1st quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 26,202,620 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,020,484,000 after buying an additional 6,264,606 shares during the period. Morgan Stanley grew its position in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF by 39.3% during the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 16,494,667 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,244,358,000 after buying an additional 4,651,939 shares during the period. Narodna banka Slovenska purchased a new position in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF in the first quarter valued at $1,112,818,000. Finally, HB Wealth Management LLC increased its holdings in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF by 6.0% in the first quarter. HB Wealth Management LLC now owns 8,063,098 shares of the company’s stock valued at $618,262,000 after buying an additional 454,169 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Total International Stock ETF Stock Performance

Shares of Vanguard Total International Stock ETF stock opened at $87.70 on Friday. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $85.14 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $82.77. Vanguard Total International Stock ETF has a fifty-two week low of $70.36 and a fifty-two week high of $88.62. The company has a market cap of $160.66 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.99 and a beta of 0.77.

Vanguard Total International Stock ETF Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, June 23rd. Investors of record on Thursday, June 18th were issued a $0.3861 dividend. This represents a $1.54 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.8%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 18th. This is a positive change from Vanguard Total International Stock ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.08.

Vanguard Total International Stock ETF Profile

The Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (VXUS) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the FTSE Global All Cap ex US index, a market-cap-weighted index of global stocks covering 99% of the world’s global market capitalization outside the US. VXUS was launched on Jan 26, 2011 and is managed by Vanguard.