Barclays PLC Decreases Holdings in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ)

Barclays PLC reduced its position in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ) by 77.9% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 12,756 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 44,930 shares during the period. Barclays PLC’s holdings in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF were worth $622,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Strategic Investment Solutions Inc. IL purchased a new stake in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF in the second quarter valued at about $36,000. Arlington Trust Co LLC acquired a new stake in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF during the 3rd quarter valued at $37,000. FMR LLC grew its holdings in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 101.3% during the 3rd quarter. FMR LLC now owns 1,254 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $61,000 after buying an additional 631 shares during the last quarter. MCF Advisors LLC purchased a new position in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF during the second quarter worth $76,000. Finally, Howe & Rusling Inc. raised its holdings in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 73.6% in the third quarter. Howe & Rusling Inc. now owns 2,156 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $105,000 after acquiring an additional 914 shares during the last quarter.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Stock Up 1.0 %

GDXJ opened at $42.75 on Thursday. The firm has a market cap of $5.02 billion, a P/E ratio of 24.80 and a beta of 1.03. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $47.54 and its 200 day simple moving average is $46.79. VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF has a 52 week low of $30.89 and a 52 week high of $55.58.

About VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF

Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners Index (the Index). The Index provides exposure to a global universe of publicly traded small- and medium-capitalization companies that generate at least 50% of their revenues from gold and/or silver mining, hold real property that has the potential to produce at least 50% of the Company’s revenue from gold or silver mining when developed, or primarily invest in gold or silver.