Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF $VTI Shares Sold by Empirical Finance LLC

Empirical Finance LLC lowered its stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) by 27.6% during the second quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 39,868 shares of the ETF’s stock after selling 15,182 shares during the period. Empirical Finance LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF were worth $14,753,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Cardinal Point Capital Management ULC increased its holdings in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 5.2% in the 1st quarter. Cardinal Point Capital Management ULC now owns 611,956 shares of the ETF’s stock valued at $196,322,000 after purchasing an additional 30,152 shares in the last quarter. RM Financial Services LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF during the fourth quarter worth about $3,163,000. Compass Financial Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF during the second quarter worth about $2,176,000. Cary Street Partners Financial LLC boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 17.8% in the fourth quarter. Cary Street Partners Financial LLC now owns 125,790 shares of the ETF’s stock worth $42,174,000 after buying an additional 18,987 shares during the period. Finally, Baron Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF in the second quarter valued at about $778,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 28.92% of the company’s stock.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Stock Performance

Shares of VTI stock traded down $2.13 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $377.60. The company had a trading volume of 4,160,582 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,534,635. The company has a market capitalization of $676.88 billion, a P/E ratio of 24.26 and a beta of 1.01. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF has a twelve month low of $310.40 and a twelve month high of $385.12. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $374.18 and its 200 day simple moving average is $357.59.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Profile

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the of the MSCI US Broad Market Index, which represents 99.5% or more of the total market capitalization of all of the United States common stocks traded on the New York and American Stock Exchanges and the Nasdaq over-the-counter market. The Fund typically holds the largest 1,200 to 1,300 stocks in its target index (covering nearly 95% of the index’s total market capitalization) and a representative sample of the remaining stocks.