Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management Acquires 25,715 Shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF $VTI

Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management lifted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) by 40.8% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 88,766 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 25,715 shares during the quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management’s holdings in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF were worth $29,130,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Heck Capital Advisors LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF in the 4th quarter valued at about $150,448,000. Ignite Planners LLC acquired a new position in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF in the second quarter valued at approximately $569,000. Cullen Frost Bankers Inc. increased its stake in shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 26.5% during the second quarter. Cullen Frost Bankers Inc. now owns 8,200 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,492,000 after purchasing an additional 1,716 shares during the period. Ethic Inc. acquired a new stake in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $232,000. Finally, Freedom Investment Management Inc. lifted its holdings in Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF by 66.8% during the 2nd quarter. Freedom Investment Management Inc. now owns 1,421 shares of the company’s stock worth $432,000 after purchasing an additional 569 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 28.92% of the company’s stock.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Price Performance

Shares of NYSEARCA VTI opened at $340.27 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $579.44 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.26 and a beta of 1.02. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $339.11 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $331.00. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF has a one year low of $236.42 and a one year high of $344.42.

About Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

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.