Align Financial LLC Makes New $26.96 Million Investment in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF $VOT

Align Financial LLC purchased a new position in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VOT) in the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor purchased 96,582 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $26,960,000.

Other large investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. Morgan Stanley lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 1.5% in the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 2,972,164 shares of the company’s stock valued at $829,650,000 after buying an additional 43,368 shares in the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 2.8% in the fourth quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 2,218,378 shares of the company’s stock valued at $619,238,000 after buying an additional 61,388 shares in the last quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 2.6% in the fourth quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 1,615,293 shares of the company’s stock valued at $450,893,000 after buying an additional 40,251 shares in the last quarter. Truepoint Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 2.5% in the fourth quarter. Truepoint Inc. now owns 1,068,574 shares of the company’s stock valued at $298,282,000 after buying an additional 25,761 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Vantagepoint Investment Advisers LLC lifted its stake in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 5.1% in the fourth quarter. Vantagepoint Investment Advisers LLC now owns 984,312 shares of the company’s stock valued at $274,761,000 after buying an additional 47,735 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF Trading Down 0.9%

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF stock opened at $301.21 on Thursday. Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF has a 1-year low of $248.23 and a 1-year high of $309.44. The firm has a market capitalization of $19.32 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.98 and a beta of 1.16. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $287.87 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $280.40.

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF 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.