iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:IJR) Reaches New 1-Year High – Time to Buy?

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:IJR)’s share price reached a new 52-week high on Monday . The stock traded as high as $145.06 and last traded at $144.59, with a volume of 354442 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $143.67.

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF Stock Performance

The stock has a market capitalization of $106.49 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.52 and a beta of 1.02. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $136.37 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $129.43.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in IJR. Crewe Advisors LLC increased its stake in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 4.2% in the fourth quarter. Crewe Advisors LLC now owns 147,896 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $17,774,000 after acquiring an additional 5,956 shares during the last quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management increased its stake in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 10.0% in the third quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management now owns 111,945 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $13,302,000 after acquiring an additional 10,185 shares during the last quarter. Resonant Capital Advisors LLC increased its stake in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 2.2% in the fourth quarter. Resonant Capital Advisors LLC now owns 274,785 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $33,024,000 after acquiring an additional 5,942 shares during the last quarter. Fortitude Family Office LLC increased its stake in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 10.1% in the fourth quarter. Fortitude Family Office LLC now owns 45,833 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $5,508,000 after acquiring an additional 4,209 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Becker Capital Management Inc. increased its stake in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 3.1% in the third quarter. Becker Capital Management Inc. now owns 427,257 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $50,771,000 after acquiring an additional 12,672 shares during the last quarter. 66.92% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF Company Profile

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF, formerly iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Index Fund, seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Standard & Poor’s SmallCap 600 Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of publicly traded securities in the small-capitalization sector of the United States equity market. The Index serves as the underlying index for the S&P 600/Citigroup Growth and Value Index series. The component stocks are weighted according to the total float-adjusted market value of their outstanding shares.