Align Financial LLC Acquires New Holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF $VBR

Align Financial LLC acquired a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm acquired 459,936 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $97,410,000.

Other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the company. Balentine LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Motiv8 Investments LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Birchbrook Inc. bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $30,000. Modus Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $30,000. Finally, Toth Financial Advisory Corp bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $36,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Stock Performance

Shares of VBR stock opened at $236.93 on Thursday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $232.20 and its 200 day simple moving average is $224.81. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a twelve month low of $188.95 and a twelve month high of $244.00. The company has a market capitalization of $35.52 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF 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.