Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) Reaches New 52-Week High – Time to Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR)’s stock price hit a new 52-week high on Friday . The stock traded as high as $251.85 and last traded at $251.85, with a volume of 27929 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $251.00.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Performance

The stock has a market cap of $38.17 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $243.01 and its 200-day moving average price is $232.63.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in VBR. Motiv8 Investments LLC purchased a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 4th quarter valued at about $29,000. Birchbrook Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 4th quarter worth approximately $30,000. Modus Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $30,000. Tower View Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the first quarter valued at approximately $37,000. Finally, Strive Financial Group LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $38,000.

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.