Align Financial LLC Buys Shares of 288,817 Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF $VBK

Align Financial LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VBK) in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm bought 288,817 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $87,255,000.

Several other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. American Trust raised its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 6.9% in the fourth quarter. American Trust now owns 3,948 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,193,000 after purchasing an additional 256 shares during the last quarter. Pennington Partners & CO. LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter valued at about $261,000. AQR Capital Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 19.9% in the fourth quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 7,062 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,133,000 after buying an additional 1,174 shares during the period. Cetera Investment Advisers increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 4.8% in the fourth quarter. Cetera Investment Advisers now owns 483,210 shares of the company’s stock valued at $145,983,000 after buying an additional 22,147 shares during the period. Finally, Equitable Holdings Inc. increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 20.1% in the fourth quarter. Equitable Holdings Inc. now owns 13,981 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,224,000 after buying an additional 2,337 shares during the period.

Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF Trading Down 0.6%

Shares of VBK stock opened at $350.10 on Thursday. The stock has a market cap of $23.38 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 1.17. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $340.13 and a 200-day moving average of $321.75. Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF has a 1-year low of $266.57 and a 1-year high of $359.06.

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.