Southland Equity Partners LLC Purchases New Position in Vanguard Financials ETF (NYSEARCA:VFH)

Southland Equity Partners LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Vanguard Financials ETF (NYSEARCA:VFH) in the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund purchased 2,431 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $249,000.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. LPL Financial LLC grew its position in Vanguard Financials ETF by 3.5% in the 3rd quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 600,625 shares of the company’s stock worth $48,242,000 after purchasing an additional 20,177 shares during the period. Mariner LLC grew its position in Vanguard Financials ETF by 0.4% in the 3rd quarter. Mariner LLC now owns 118,570 shares of the company’s stock worth $9,524,000 after purchasing an additional 529 shares during the period. Stifel Financial Corp grew its position in Vanguard Financials ETF by 4.5% in the 3rd quarter. Stifel Financial Corp now owns 404,364 shares of the company’s stock worth $32,479,000 after purchasing an additional 17,595 shares during the period. PGIM Custom Harvest LLC grew its position in Vanguard Financials ETF by 35.6% in the 3rd quarter. PGIM Custom Harvest LLC now owns 470,064 shares of the company’s stock worth $37,756,000 after purchasing an additional 123,303 shares during the period. Finally, O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC grew its position in Vanguard Financials ETF by 507.0% in the 3rd quarter. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC now owns 6,361 shares of the company’s stock worth $511,000 after purchasing an additional 5,313 shares during the period.

Vanguard Financials ETF Trading Up 1.0 %

NYSEARCA:VFH opened at $101.12 on Tuesday. Vanguard Financials ETF has a 12 month low of $75.71 and a 12 month high of $103.05. The company has a market cap of $9.31 billion, a PE ratio of 14.43 and a beta of 0.96. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $99.88 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $97.09.

Vanguard Financials ETF Profile

Vanguard Financials ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Financials Index Fund. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) US Investable Market Financials Index, an index of stocks of large, medium and small United States companies in the financials sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).