Royal Bank of Canada Reduces Position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF $VBR

Royal Bank of Canada decreased its holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) by 0.7% during the 1st quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund owned 482,517 shares of the company’s stock after selling 3,628 shares during the quarter. Royal Bank of Canada’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF were worth $104,828,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Bank of America Corp DE grew its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 15,999,348 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,388,502,000 after purchasing an additional 560,544 shares in the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 2.7% during the 4th quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 4,379,433 shares of the company’s stock valued at $927,520,000 after buying an additional 113,412 shares during the last quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC boosted its stake in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 21,125.3% during the 4th quarter. Valpey Financial Services LLC now owns 4,270,098 shares of the company’s stock valued at $904,364,000 after buying an additional 4,249,980 shares during the last quarter. Aspiriant LLC grew its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 6.1% during the fourth quarter. Aspiriant LLC now owns 1,620,708 shares of the company’s stock worth $343,249,000 after buying an additional 93,408 shares in the last quarter. Finally, LPL Financial LLC grew its position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF by 0.6% during the fourth quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 1,438,715 shares of the company’s stock worth $304,705,000 after buying an additional 8,609 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Trading Down 0.2%

Shares of NYSEARCA:VBR opened at $244.63 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $37.14 billion, a PE ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $240.38 and a 200 day simple moving average of $230.97. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a 12-month low of $193.00 and a 12-month high of $248.28.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Company Profile

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