Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK Position Cut by Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. trimmed its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) by 92.4% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The fund owned 17,358 shares of the company’s stock after selling 210,872 shares during the quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF were worth $5,244,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. CENTRAL TRUST Co lifted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 25.9% in the third quarter. CENTRAL TRUST Co now owns 17,309 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,151,000 after buying an additional 3,560 shares during the last quarter. Everhart Financial Group Inc. lifted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 10.4% in the fourth quarter. Everhart Financial Group Inc. now owns 23,046 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,962,000 after buying an additional 2,164 shares during the last quarter. AlphaCore Capital LLC lifted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 157.4% in the third quarter. AlphaCore Capital LLC now owns 2,795 shares of the company’s stock valued at $833,000 after buying an additional 1,709 shares during the last quarter. D.A. Davidson & CO. lifted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 6.0% in the fourth quarter. D.A. Davidson & CO. now owns 30,456 shares of the company’s stock valued at $9,201,000 after buying an additional 1,720 shares during the last quarter. Finally, PNC Financial Services Group Inc. lifted its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 0.4% in the third quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 683,942 shares of the company’s stock valued at $203,555,000 after buying an additional 3,006 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

VBK stock opened at $347.12 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $23.18 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a 1 year low of $257.89 and a 1 year high of $349.26. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $323.23 and its two-hundred day moving average is $314.57.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Profile

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.