Essex Financial Services Inc. Buys 1,867 Shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF $VOT

Essex Financial Services Inc. lifted its stake in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VOT) by 118.8% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 3,439 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,867 shares during the period. Essex Financial Services Inc.’s holdings in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF were worth $960,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in VOT. Brighton Jones LLC boosted its stake in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 30.3% during the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 11,500 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,918,000 after buying an additional 2,673 shares during the period. AQR Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF during the first quarter valued at $396,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted its stake in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 10.6% during the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 30,823 shares of the company’s stock valued at $7,541,000 after buying an additional 2,954 shares during the period. Russell Investments Group Ltd. boosted its stake in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 92.7% during the second quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 1,166 shares of the company’s stock valued at $332,000 after buying an additional 561 shares during the period. Finally, M&T Bank Corp boosted its stake in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 19.6% during the second quarter. M&T Bank Corp now owns 1,001 shares of the company’s stock valued at $285,000 after buying an additional 164 shares during the period.

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

NYSEARCA:VOT opened at $301.46 on Tuesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $19.34 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.98 and a beta of 1.17. Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF has a 52-week low of $248.23 and a 52-week high of $303.03. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $278.44 and a 200 day moving average of $278.64.

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF Company Profile

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