14,936 Shares in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF $VBR Purchased by Independent Financial Group LLC

Independent Financial Group LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) in the first quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor purchased 14,936 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,245,000.

Several other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Bank of America Corp DE raised its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 15,999,348 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,388,502,000 after acquiring an additional 560,544 shares in the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 2.7% during the 4th quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 4,379,433 shares of the company’s stock valued at $927,520,000 after acquiring an additional 113,412 shares during the last quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC grew its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 21,125.3% in the fourth quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC now owns 4,270,098 shares of the company’s stock valued at $904,364,000 after purchasing an additional 4,249,980 shares in the last quarter. Aspiriant LLC grew its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 6.1% in the fourth quarter. Aspiriant LLC now owns 1,620,708 shares of the company’s stock valued at $343,249,000 after purchasing an additional 93,408 shares in the last quarter. Finally, LPL Financial LLC grew its holdings in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 0.6% in the fourth quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 1,438,715 shares of the company’s stock valued at $304,705,000 after purchasing an additional 8,609 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Down 0.7%

Shares of NYSEARCA:VBR opened at $244.12 on Friday. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $237.48 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $229.01. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a 52 week low of $193.00 and a 52 week high of $246.87. The stock has a market capitalization of $37.06 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Small Cap Value Index (the Index). The Index is a diversified index of value 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.