JPMorgan Chase & Co. Reduces Position in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA:VCR)

JPMorgan Chase & Co. reduced its position in shares of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA:VCR) by 2.7% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 484,837 shares of the company’s stock after selling 13,533 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. owned about 2.73% of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF worth $181,998,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Ausdal Financial Partners Inc. raised its stake in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 21.3% in the fourth quarter. Ausdal Financial Partners Inc. now owns 5,638 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,116,000 after buying an additional 989 shares in the last quarter. Signature Estate & Investment Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 7.8% during the fourth quarter. Signature Estate & Investment Advisors LLC now owns 981 shares of the company’s stock worth $368,000 after purchasing an additional 71 shares during the last quarter. Houlihan Financial Resource Group Ltd. lifted its stake in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 1.4% during the fourth quarter. Houlihan Financial Resource Group Ltd. now owns 4,572 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,716,000 after purchasing an additional 61 shares during the last quarter. Haverford Trust Co boosted its holdings in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF by 1.5% in the fourth quarter. Haverford Trust Co now owns 5,121 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,922,000 after purchasing an additional 75 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Hershey Financial Advisers LLC purchased a new position in Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $1,828,000.

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF Trading Down 0.2 %

Shares of NYSEARCA:VCR opened at $325.51 on Tuesday. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $359.44 and a 200-day simple moving average of $360.23. Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF has a twelve month low of $284.84 and a twelve month high of $402.25. The company has a market capitalization of $5.61 billion, a PE ratio of 23.49 and a beta of 1.36.

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, March 27th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, March 25th were paid a $0.7716 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, March 25th. This is an increase from Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF’s previous dividend of $0.67.

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF Profile

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).