VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ) Hits New 1-Year High at $44.19

Shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ) reached a new 52-week high on Friday . The company traded as high as $44.19 and last traded at $44.17, with a volume of 1982322 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $42.92.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Stock Down 2.2 %

The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $35.84 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $35.40. The company has a market cap of $4.51 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.96 and a beta of 1.06.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of GDXJ. Almanack Investment Partners LLC. bought a new position in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF in the third quarter valued at about $25,000. Riggs Asset Managment Co. Inc. purchased a new stake in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF in the fourth quarter worth about $26,000. Tower Research Capital LLC TRC increased its position in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 653.1% in the second quarter. Tower Research Capital LLC TRC now owns 723 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $26,000 after buying an additional 627 shares in the last quarter. Trust Co. of Vermont purchased a new stake in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF in the third quarter worth about $32,000. Finally, Sachetta LLC purchased a new stake in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF in the fourth quarter worth about $32,000.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Company Profile

Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners Index (the Index). The Index provides exposure to a global universe of publicly traded small- and medium-capitalization companies that generate at least 50% of their revenues from gold and/or silver mining, hold real property that has the potential to produce at least 50% of the Company’s revenue from gold or silver mining when developed, or primarily invest in gold or silver.