1,994 Shares in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF $VTI Purchased by Salus Financial Advisors LLC

Salus Financial Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 1,994 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $640,000. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF accounts for 0.4% of Salus Financial Advisors LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 21st biggest position.

A number of other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Heck Capital Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $150,448,000. Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 0.6% in the 2nd quarter. Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp now owns 9,863 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,998,000 after purchasing an additional 56 shares during the period. Alliancebernstein L.P. raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 17.5% in the 2nd quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. now owns 238,003 shares of the company’s stock worth $72,336,000 after purchasing an additional 35,409 shares during the period. Darwin Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $243,000. Finally, Ausdal Financial Partners Inc. lifted its stake in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 8.1% in the second quarter. Ausdal Financial Partners Inc. now owns 22,487 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,834,000 after purchasing an additional 1,680 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 28.92% of the company’s stock.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Trading Up 0.8%

Shares of NYSEARCA VTI opened at $370.04 on Wednesday. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $363.43 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $345.44. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF has a 1-year low of $302.80 and a 1-year high of $374.70. The firm has a market cap of $646.54 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.26 and a beta of 1.01.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Profile

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the of the MSCI US Broad Market Index, which represents 99.5% or more of the total market capitalization of all of the United States common stocks traded on the New York and American Stock Exchanges and the Nasdaq over-the-counter market. The Fund typically holds the largest 1,200 to 1,300 stocks in its target index (covering nearly 95% of the index’s total market capitalization) and a representative sample of the remaining stocks.