Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management Acquires 3,247 Shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF $VOT

Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management raised its stake in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VOT) by 10.3% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 34,814 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 3,247 shares during the period. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management owned 0.06% of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF worth $10,228,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the stock. Assetmark Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 3.2% during the 2nd quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 2,458,167 shares of the company’s stock worth $699,078,000 after buying an additional 75,684 shares during the period. EP Wealth Advisors LLC lifted its position in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 15.8% during the 2nd quarter. EP Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 1,229,552 shares of the company’s stock worth $349,672,000 after acquiring an additional 167,722 shares during the last quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. lifted its position in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 1.6% during the 3rd quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 1,115,856 shares of the company’s stock worth $327,827,000 after acquiring an additional 17,141 shares during the last quarter. Truepoint Inc. boosted its holdings in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF by 1.3% during the second quarter. Truepoint Inc. now owns 1,036,103 shares of the company’s stock valued at $294,657,000 after acquiring an additional 13,147 shares during the period. Finally, Vantagepoint Investment Advisers LLC bought a new stake in Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF during the third quarter valued at about $275,157,000.

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF Stock Performance

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF stock opened at $276.02 on Friday. Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF has a 52 week low of $209.64 and a 52 week high of $298.66. The firm has a market capitalization of $17.68 billion, a PE ratio of 31.98 and a beta of 1.16. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $280.40 and its 200-day simple moving average is $285.27.

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF Profile

Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Mid Cap Growth Index (the Index). The Index is a diversified index of growth stocks of medium-size United States companies. The Fund attempts to replicate the target Index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the Index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Index.