Royce & Associates LP Sells 35,000 Shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF $GDXJ

Royce & Associates LP lessened its stake in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ) by 23.5% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 113,758 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 35,000 shares during the period. Royce & Associates LP owned approximately 0.14% of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF worth $12,943,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak Inc. purchased a new stake in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF during the 4th quarter valued at $28,000. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. raised its holdings in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 98.1% during the 3rd quarter. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. now owns 321 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $32,000 after buying an additional 159 shares during the period. Flagship Harbor Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF during the 4th quarter valued at $45,000. Allworth Financial LP raised its holdings in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 39.0% during the 4th quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 417 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $47,000 after buying an additional 117 shares during the period. Finally, Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF during the 4th quarter valued at $54,000.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Stock Performance

NYSEARCA:GDXJ opened at $112.56 on Thursday. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $119.98 and its 200 day moving average is $121.81. VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF has a fifty-two week low of $63.86 and a fifty-two week high of $157.49. The firm has a market capitalization of $8.42 billion, a PE ratio of 24.09 and a beta of 0.79.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Profile

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.