Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA:VCR) Hits New 1-Year High – Should You Buy?

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA:VCR) shares reached a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $379.76 and last traded at $379.72, with a volume of 2680 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $376.17.

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF Stock Up 0.5 %

The firm has a 50 day moving average of $347.61 and a two-hundred day moving average of $325.71. The firm has a market capitalization of $6.72 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.74 and a beta of 1.31.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF

A number of hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. International Assets Investment Management LLC increased its holdings in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 2,990,669.4% in the third quarter. International Assets Investment Management LLC now owns 6,639,508 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,260,620,000 after purchasing an additional 6,639,286 shares in the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. increased its holdings in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 2.0% in the second quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 177,913 shares of the company’s stock worth $55,569,000 after purchasing an additional 3,537 shares in the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC increased its holdings in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 4.3% in the second quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 151,644 shares of the company’s stock worth $47,363,000 after purchasing an additional 6,312 shares in the last quarter. Stifel Financial Corp increased its holdings in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 6.1% in the third quarter. Stifel Financial Corp now owns 121,393 shares of the company’s stock worth $41,337,000 after purchasing an additional 6,980 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Marks Wealth LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF in the third quarter worth approximately $23,110,000.

About Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary Index Fund. It employs investment approach designed to track the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International United States Investable Market Consumer Discretionary Index, an Index of stocks of large, medium, and small United States companies in the consumer discretionary sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).