HighTower Advisors LLC Acquires 173,681 Shares of Vanguard Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VTV)

HighTower Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in Vanguard Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VTV) by 7.6% in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 2,453,000 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 173,681 shares during the quarter. Vanguard Value ETF comprises 0.6% of HighTower Advisors LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 26th biggest holding. HighTower Advisors LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Value ETF were worth $415,293,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in VTV. Jones Financial Companies Lllp lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Value ETF by 3.2% in the fourth quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 53,858,087 shares of the company’s stock worth $9,118,174,000 after buying an additional 1,672,314 shares in the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Value ETF by 4.6% in the third quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 9,388,550 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,638,959,000 after buying an additional 412,100 shares in the last quarter. Raymond James Financial Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Vanguard Value ETF in the fourth quarter worth about $1,288,912,000. Mill Creek Capital Advisors LLC lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Value ETF by 1.4% in the third quarter. Mill Creek Capital Advisors LLC now owns 5,422,168 shares of the company’s stock worth $946,548,000 after buying an additional 73,743 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Captrust Financial Advisors lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Value ETF by 2.7% in the third quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 5,331,460 shares of the company’s stock worth $930,713,000 after buying an additional 138,544 shares in the last quarter.

Vanguard Value ETF Price Performance

Shares of VTV stock opened at $170.20 on Wednesday. Vanguard Value ETF has a 1 year low of $154.12 and a 1 year high of $182.38. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $174.80 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $174.58. The company has a market cap of $265.51 billion, a PE ratio of 19.87 and a beta of 0.90.

Vanguard Value ETF Profile

Vanguard Value ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Value Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Prime Market Value Index (the Index). The Index is a diversified index of value stocks of predominantly large United States companies.