Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VOT) Sees Significant Decline in Short Interest

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VOT) saw a significant drop in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 64,874 shares, a drop of 53.8% from the August 15th total of 140,275 shares. Currently, 0.1% of the shares of the company are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 149,182 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.4 days.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Acumen Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $29,000. C M Bidwell & Associates Ltd. bought a new position in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $32,000. Annis Gardner Whiting Capital Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF during the first quarter valued at $28,000. Wellington Grp LLC lifted its holdings in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 87.0% during the 1st quarter. Wellington Grp LLC now owns 129 shares of the company’s stock worth $33,000 after buying an additional 60 shares during the period. Finally, Entrust Financial LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF in the fourth quarter worth approximately $46,000.

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

VOT opened at $294.99 on Monday. Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF has a fifty-two week low of $248.23 and a fifty-two week high of $315.14. The company has a market capitalization of $19.17 billion, a P/E ratio of 31.98 and a beta of 1.16. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $300.88 and a 200-day moving average of $289.32.

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF Company 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.