HighTower Advisors LLC Raises Stock Position in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA:VCR)

HighTower Advisors LLC lifted its position in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA:VCR) by 10.0% in the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 11,487 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 1,047 shares during the period. HighTower Advisors LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF were worth $4,312,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Wealthfront Advisers LLC increased its position in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 228,132.9% during the 4th quarter. Wealthfront Advisers LLC now owns 5,566,600 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,089,590,000 after purchasing an additional 5,564,161 shares during the period. Retirement Capital Strategies purchased a new position in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $977,000. Tortoise Investment Management LLC raised its stake in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 12.1% in the fourth quarter. Tortoise Investment Management LLC now owns 499 shares of the company’s stock worth $187,000 after buying an additional 54 shares in the last quarter. Independent Advisor Alliance bought a new position in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF in the fourth quarter worth approximately $304,000. Finally, Johnson Investment Counsel Inc. lifted its holdings in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 29.4% during the fourth quarter. Johnson Investment Counsel Inc. now owns 5,575 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,093,000 after buying an additional 1,265 shares during the period.

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF Trading Up 1.9 %

Shares of NYSEARCA:VCR opened at $326.09 on Thursday. The company has a market capitalization of $5.64 billion, a PE ratio of 23.95 and a beta of 1.36. Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF has a 12-month low of $284.84 and a 12-month high of $402.25. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $366.71 and its 200-day simple moving average is $359.12.

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).