Murphy Middleton Hinkle & Parker Inc. Acquires New Position in Vanguard Energy ETF $VDE

Murphy Middleton Hinkle & Parker Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:VDE) in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm acquired 13,939 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,850,000.

Several other large investors have also bought and sold shares of VDE. Creative Capital Management Investments LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF in the third quarter worth approximately $25,000. Mather Group LLC. purchased a new stake in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF during the third quarter valued at approximately $33,000. Cloud Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF during the third quarter valued at approximately $33,000. Tripletail Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF during the third quarter valued at approximately $36,000. Finally, HM Payson & Co. raised its holdings in Vanguard Energy ETF by 100.0% in the 3rd quarter. HM Payson & Co. now owns 400 shares of the company’s stock worth $50,000 after acquiring an additional 200 shares during the last quarter.

Vanguard Energy ETF Stock Up 1.0%

Shares of NYSEARCA VDE opened at $169.43 on Tuesday. The firm has a market cap of $9.44 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.10 and a beta of 0.77. Vanguard Energy ETF has a twelve month low of $103.07 and a twelve month high of $170.46. The company has a 50 day moving average of $151.28 and a 200 day moving average of $134.87.

Vanguard Energy ETF Profile

Vanguard Energy ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Energy Index Fund. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) US Investable Market Energy Index (the Index), an index of stocks of large, medium and small United States companies in the energy sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). This GICS sector is made up of companies whose businesses are dominated by activities, such as the construction or provision of oil rigs, drilling equipment, and other energy-related service and equipment (such as seismic data collection), or companies engaged in the exploration, production, marketing, refining, and/or transportation of oil and gas products.