iShares MSCI South Africa ETF $EZA Shares Bought by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. grew its stake in iShares MSCI South Africa ETF (NYSEARCA:EZA) by 20.0% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 883,389 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after buying an additional 147,200 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. owned 0.11% of iShares MSCI South Africa ETF worth $56,625,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of EZA. One Capital Management LLC raised its stake in iShares MSCI South Africa ETF by 0.9% during the 3rd quarter. One Capital Management LLC now owns 28,060 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $1,799,000 after acquiring an additional 260 shares in the last quarter. Barometer Capital Management Inc. purchased a new stake in iShares MSCI South Africa ETF in the third quarter valued at $320,000. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. boosted its stake in iShares MSCI South Africa ETF by 78.4% in the third quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. now owns 16,311 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,046,000 after acquiring an additional 7,170 shares in the last quarter. ABC Arbitrage SA acquired a new position in iShares MSCI South Africa ETF in the third quarter valued at $631,000. Finally, Innealta Capital LLC grew its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI South Africa ETF by 138.7% during the third quarter. Innealta Capital LLC now owns 21,697 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $1,391,000 after purchasing an additional 12,608 shares during the last quarter.

iShares MSCI South Africa ETF Stock Performance

Shares of EZA stock opened at $64.93 on Friday. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $74.22 and its two-hundred day moving average is $68.37. iShares MSCI South Africa ETF has a 1 year low of $39.74 and a 1 year high of $81.75. The firm has a market cap of $675.27 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.34 and a beta of 0.78.

iShares MSCI South Africa ETF Profile

iShares MSCI South Africa ETF, formerly iShares MSCI South Africa Index Fund (the Fund), is an exchange traded fund. The Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of publicly traded securities in the aggregate in the South African market, as measured by the MSCI South Africa Index (the Index). The Index seeks to measure the performance of the South African equity market. The Index is a capitalization-weighted index that aims to capture 85% of the (publicly available) total market capitalization.