Auto Owners Insurance Co Purchases 36,639,624 Shares of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF $VCR

Auto Owners Insurance Co lifted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA:VCR) by 45,402.3% in the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 36,720,324 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 36,639,624 shares during the period. Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF accounts for about 3.5% of Auto Owners Insurance Co’s portfolio, making the stock its 7th biggest position. Auto Owners Insurance Co owned about 2.29% of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF worth $14,464,870,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. Empirical Asset Management LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF in the third quarter valued at approximately $7,791,000. Brookstone Capital Management boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 132.7% during the fourth quarter. Brookstone Capital Management now owns 4,154 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,636,000 after purchasing an additional 2,369 shares in the last quarter. BNP Paribas acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF in the 3rd quarter valued at $875,000. Capital Management Associates Inc grew its holdings in shares of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 66.1% in the 4th quarter. Capital Management Associates Inc now owns 5,156 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,031,000 after buying an additional 2,051 shares during the period. Finally, Merrithew & Thorsten Inc bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF in the 4th quarter valued at $7,726,000.

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF Price Performance

NYSEARCA:VCR opened at $394.33 on Friday. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $391.42 and its 200-day simple moving average is $388.81. Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF has a fifty-two week low of $346.48 and a fifty-two week high of $414.28. The stock has a market capitalization of $6.14 billion, a PE ratio of 25.44 and a beta of 1.24.

About Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary Index Fund. It employs investment approach designed to track the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International United States Investable Market Consumer Discretionary Index, an Index of stocks of large, medium, and small United States companies in the consumer discretionary sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). Its manufacturing segment includes industries, such as automotive, household durable goods, textiles and apparels, and leisure equipment.