Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) Short Interest Update

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) saw a significant increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 376,091 shares, an increase of 60.3% from the March 15th total of 234,620 shares. Currently, 0.6% of the company’s stock are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 224,064 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.7 days.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Up 0.1%

Shares of VBK traded up $0.42 on Wednesday, hitting $327.18. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 137,817 shares, compared to its average volume of 253,887. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $311.79 and its 200-day moving average price is $308.19. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a fifty-two week low of $227.63 and a fifty-two week high of $329.04. The firm has a market capitalization of $21.85 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.16.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in VBK. Corient Private Wealth LLC lifted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 100.8% in the second quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 1,924,932 shares of the company’s stock valued at $533,099,000 after acquiring an additional 966,444 shares during the last quarter. EP Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter worth about $234,537,000. Gen Wealth Partners Inc increased its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 11,209.1% during the fourth quarter. Gen Wealth Partners Inc now owns 392,425 shares of the company’s stock worth $118,556,000 after buying an additional 388,955 shares during the last quarter. Align Financial LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $87,255,000. Finally, Bank of America Corp DE lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 2.7% in the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 10,257,972 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,099,036,000 after buying an additional 268,570 shares during the last quarter.

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.