Vanguard S&P 500 ETF Sees Unusually Large Options Volume (NYSEARCA:VOO)

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) was the target of some unusual options trading on Monday. Stock traders purchased 24,504 call options on the company. This represents an increase of 181% compared to the average volume of 8,728 call options.

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF Price Performance

Shares of NYSEARCA VOO traded up $14.39 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $690.38. The stock had a trading volume of 3,250,889 shares, compared to its average volume of 8,446,232. The company has a market cap of $1.04 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.97 and a beta of 1.00. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has a twelve month low of $578.46 and a twelve month high of $718.47. The business’s fifty day moving average is $704.04 and its two-hundred day moving average is $671.31.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of VOO. California Public Employees Retirement System lifted its position in shares of Vanguard S&P 500 ETF by 6.5% during the 1st quarter. California Public Employees Retirement System now owns 33,635,939 shares of the company’s stock worth $20,099,155,000 after buying an additional 2,049,100 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE grew its position in Vanguard S&P 500 ETF by 1.3% in the first quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 27,441,061 shares of the company’s stock valued at $16,397,406,000 after acquiring an additional 354,072 shares during the period. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. grew its position in Vanguard S&P 500 ETF by 1.3% in the second quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 10,822,531 shares of the company’s stock valued at $7,432,569,000 after acquiring an additional 142,360 shares during the period. Assetmark Inc. grew its position in Vanguard S&P 500 ETF by 8.5% in the second quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 4,037,865 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,773,246,000 after acquiring an additional 314,829 shares during the period. Finally, Alberta Investment Management Corp raised its stake in Vanguard S&P 500 ETF by 15.6% during the second quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp now owns 3,880,748 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,665,337,000 after acquiring an additional 522,562 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF Company Profile

Vanguard 500 Index Fund (the Fund) is an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The Fund offers four classes of shares: Investor Shares, Admiral Shares, Signal Shares, and Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Shares. The Fund seeks to track the investment performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, an unmanaged benchmark representing the United States large-capitalization stocks. The Fund employs a passive management-or indexing-investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.