Brown Advisory Inc. Buys 729 Shares of Vanguard Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:VDE)

Brown Advisory Inc. raised its position in Vanguard Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:VDE) by 37.6% during the 1st quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund owned 2,668 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 729 shares during the quarter. Brown Advisory Inc.’s holdings in Vanguard Energy ETF were worth $346,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Bank of America Corp DE raised its position in Vanguard Energy ETF by 3.6% during the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 2,507,123 shares of the company’s stock worth $304,139,000 after acquiring an additional 86,238 shares in the last quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN boosted its stake in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF by 19.7% in the 4th quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 1,180,874 shares of the company’s stock valued at $143,252,000 after purchasing an additional 194,585 shares in the last quarter. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company boosted its position in Vanguard Energy ETF by 1.4% during the 4th quarter. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company now owns 863,094 shares of the company’s stock worth $104,702,000 after buying an additional 11,972 shares during the period. LPL Financial LLC lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF by 10.9% in the 4th quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 611,511 shares of the company’s stock worth $74,182,000 after purchasing an additional 60,260 shares during the period. Finally, Envestnet Asset Management Inc. lifted its position in shares of Vanguard Energy ETF by 15.4% in the 1st quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 553,439 shares of the company’s stock worth $71,787,000 after purchasing an additional 73,744 shares during the period.

Vanguard Energy ETF Trading Down 1.5%

VDE opened at $121.91 on Wednesday. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $119.30 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $121.25. Vanguard Energy ETF has a 1-year low of $103.07 and a 1-year high of $137.41. The company has a market cap of $7.17 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.10 and a beta of 1.39.

Vanguard Energy ETF Company Profile

Vanguard Energy ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Energy 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 Energy Index (the Index), an index of stocks of large, medium and small United States companies in the energy sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).