Park Avenue Securities LLC Increases Holdings in Vanguard Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:VNQ)

Park Avenue Securities LLC has increased its holdings in shares of Vanguard Real Estate ETF by 3.5% during the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm now owns 20,599 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock, worth $1,781,000.

Other hedge funds have also been active in trading Vanguard Real Estate ETF shares. Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC raised its stake by 22.4%, Natixis Advisors L.P. by 16.9%, Bay Colony Advisory Group Inc by 7.6%, Operose Advisors LLC bought a new stake, and Mutual Advisors LLC raised its stake by 3.4%.

Shares of Vanguard Real Estate ETF opened at $83.97 on Monday, with a market cap of $33.05 billion, a PE ratio of 22.09, and a beta of 1.03. The stock has a 1 year low of $70.61 and a high of $90.09, with a fifty day moving average price of $82.22 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $84.43.

Vanguard Real Estate ETF, an open-end investment company, invests in stocks issued by real estate investment trusts (REITs). It tracks the return of the MSCI US RIT Index, a gauge of real estate stocks, and is advised by The Vanguard Group, Inc.

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