Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) Sets New 12-Month High – Should You Buy?

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK)’s share price reached a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $359.06 and last traded at $357.56, with a volume of 15823 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $350.81.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

The firm has a market capitalization of $23.90 billion, a PE ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $337.40 and its 200-day moving average price is $320.64.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Simplex Trading LLC purchased a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter valued at $27,000. Birchbrook Inc. purchased a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter valued at $29,000. Advisortrust Partners LLC purchased a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the first quarter valued at $29,000. Balentine LLC purchased a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the third quarter valued at $30,000. Finally, Bollard Group LLC purchased a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the first quarter valued at $34,000.

About Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF

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