Fifth Third Bancorp Purchases 138,931 Shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF $VBR

Fifth Third Bancorp raised its position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) by 164.6% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 223,342 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 138,931 shares during the quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp’s holdings in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF were worth $48,521,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in VBR. Motiv8 Investments LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Birchbrook Inc. bought a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $30,000. Modus Advisors LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $30,000. Toth Financial Advisory Corp acquired a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the 4th quarter worth approximately $36,000. Finally, Tower View Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF during the 1st quarter worth approximately $37,000.

Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF Price Performance

VBR opened at $242.05 on Monday. Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF has a fifty-two week low of $193.00 and a fifty-two week high of $245.12. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $236.48 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $228.12. The firm has a market capitalization of $36.75 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.99 and a beta of 0.96.

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.