HighTower Advisors LLC Has $98.26 Million Position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK

HighTower Advisors LLC decreased its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) by 1.7% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 268,681 shares of the company’s stock after selling 4,697 shares during the period. HighTower Advisors LLC owned approximately 0.40% of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF worth $98,257,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of VBK. Simplex Trading LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the 4th quarter valued at about $27,000. First Bancorp Inc ME acquired a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $28,000. Birchbrook Inc. bought a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter worth approximately $29,000. Advisortrust Partners LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the first quarter worth approximately $29,000. Finally, Basecamp Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the first quarter valued at approximately $31,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

NYSEARCA VBK opened at $349.44 on Monday. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $353.00 and a 200 day simple moving average of $338.06. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a 12-month low of $280.27 and a 12-month high of $367.04. The company has a market cap of $23.71 billion, a P/E 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.