B. Riley Wealth Advisors Inc. Purchases Shares of 6,650 VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ)

B. Riley Wealth Advisors Inc. acquired a new position in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ) in the 2nd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor acquired 6,650 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock, valued at approximately $280,000.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Alaska Permanent Fund Corp grew its holdings in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 17.7% in the 1st quarter. Alaska Permanent Fund Corp now owns 8,167,154 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $316,396,000 after purchasing an additional 1,230,234 shares during the last quarter. Bank of Montreal Can grew its stake in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 48.3% during the second quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 4,524,511 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $190,934,000 after buying an additional 1,473,480 shares during the last quarter. Jane Street Group LLC increased its holdings in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 108.0% during the first quarter. Jane Street Group LLC now owns 2,629,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $101,847,000 after buying an additional 1,365,157 shares in the last quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets raised its stake in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 98.7% in the first quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets now owns 1,450,252 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $56,183,000 after acquiring an additional 720,329 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Heartwood Wealth Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 11.3% in the 1st quarter. Heartwood Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 726,290 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $28,136,000 after acquiring an additional 73,743 shares in the last quarter.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Price Performance

NYSEARCA GDXJ opened at $47.77 on Wednesday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $46.52 and its 200 day simple moving average is $44.28. VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF has a one year low of $30.89 and a one year high of $51.74. The firm has a market cap of $5.61 billion, a PE ratio of 24.80 and a beta of 1.03.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Profile

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.