Sapient Capital LLC Lowers Stock Holdings in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ)

Sapient Capital LLC lowered its holdings in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ) by 0.7% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 29,805 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 215 shares during the quarter. Sapient Capital LLC’s holdings in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF were worth $1,274,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of GDXJ. Arlington Trust Co LLC purchased a new position in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF in the third quarter valued at approximately $37,000. FMR LLC lifted its position in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 101.3% in the third quarter. FMR LLC now owns 1,254 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $61,000 after acquiring an additional 631 shares in the last quarter. Blue Trust Inc. lifted its position in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 50.0% in the fourth quarter. Blue Trust Inc. now owns 2,100 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $90,000 after acquiring an additional 700 shares in the last quarter. Howe & Rusling Inc. lifted its position in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 73.6% in the third quarter. Howe & Rusling Inc. now owns 2,156 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $105,000 after acquiring an additional 914 shares in the last quarter. Finally, NBC Securities Inc. lifted its position in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 523.5% in the third quarter. NBC Securities Inc. now owns 2,650 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $129,000 after acquiring an additional 2,225 shares in the last quarter.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Price Performance

NYSEARCA GDXJ opened at $51.34 on Wednesday. The company has a market cap of $6.03 billion, a PE ratio of 24.80 and a beta of 1.03. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $46.60 and its 200-day simple moving average is $47.39. VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF has a 1-year low of $30.89 and a 1-year high of $55.58.

About VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF

Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners Index (the Index). The Index provides exposure to a global universe of publicly traded small- and medium-capitalization companies that generate at least 50% of their revenues from gold and/or silver mining, hold real property that has the potential to produce at least 50% of the Company’s revenue from gold or silver mining when developed, or primarily invest in gold or silver.