Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management Trims Stock Position in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF $VTI

Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management decreased its stake in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) by 9.4% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 80,459 shares of the company’s stock after selling 8,307 shares during the period. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management’s holdings in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF were worth $26,975,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of VTI. Heck Capital Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF during the fourth quarter worth about $150,448,000. Russell Investments Group Ltd. boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 122.2% in the 2nd quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 7,210 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,191,000 after purchasing an additional 3,965 shares during the period. Schroder Investment Management Group acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF in the 2nd quarter valued at about $267,000. Fisher Asset Management LLC grew its stake in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 42.0% during the 2nd quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 20,904 shares of the company’s stock worth $6,354,000 after buying an additional 6,187 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Van Hulzen Asset Management LLC grew its stake in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 1.4% during the 2nd quarter. Van Hulzen Asset Management LLC now owns 2,606 shares of the company’s stock worth $792,000 after buying an additional 35 shares during the last quarter. 28.92% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Stock Up 0.8%

VTI opened at $323.24 on Thursday. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF has a 52 week low of $236.42 and a 52 week high of $344.42. The business’s 50 day moving average is $334.05 and its two-hundred day moving average is $333.52. The firm has a market cap of $550.44 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.26 and a beta of 1.02.

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.