Centaurus Financial Inc. Sells 3,874 Shares of Vanguard Financials ETF $VFH

Centaurus Financial Inc. decreased its stake in shares of Vanguard Financials ETF (NYSEARCA:VFH) by 29.4% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 9,310 shares of the company’s stock after selling 3,874 shares during the quarter. Centaurus Financial Inc.’s holdings in Vanguard Financials ETF were worth $1,125,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in VFH. Jane Street Group LLC raised its stake in shares of Vanguard Financials ETF by 124.9% during the 1st quarter. Jane Street Group LLC now owns 9,345 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,116,000 after purchasing an additional 5,190 shares in the last quarter. Focus Partners Wealth grew its stake in shares of Vanguard Financials ETF by 10.5% in the first quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 7,821 shares of the company’s stock valued at $934,000 after buying an additional 743 shares in the last quarter. Brown Advisory Inc. grew its stake in shares of Vanguard Financials ETF by 8.8% in the second quarter. Brown Advisory Inc. now owns 6,664 shares of the company’s stock valued at $848,000 after buying an additional 540 shares in the last quarter. Cerity Partners LLC increased its holdings in Vanguard Financials ETF by 8.4% during the second quarter. Cerity Partners LLC now owns 22,736 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,894,000 after buying an additional 1,759 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Qube Research & Technologies Ltd increased its holdings in Vanguard Financials ETF by 1,765.2% during the second quarter. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd now owns 9,587 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,220,000 after buying an additional 9,073 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 61.65% of the company’s stock.

Vanguard Financials ETF Trading Down 0.1%

NYSEARCA VFH opened at $139.23 on Friday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $133.11 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $128.82. Vanguard Financials ETF has a 1 year low of $116.67 and a 1 year high of $140.97. The firm has a market capitalization of $13.48 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.56 and a beta of 0.90.

Vanguard Financials ETF Profile

Vanguard Financials ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Financials 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 Financials Index, an index of stocks of large, medium and small United States companies in the financials sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). This GICS sector is made up of companies involved in activities, such as banking, mortgage finance, consumer finance, specialized finance, investment banking and brokerage, asset management and custody, corporate lending, insurance, financial investment, and real estate (including real estate investment trusts).