iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) Short Interest Down 69.5% in June

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) was the target of a large decrease in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 4,004,093 shares, a decrease of 69.5% from the June 15th total of 13,114,134 shares. Approximately 0.2% of the company’s shares are short sold. Based on an average trading volume of 11,847,025 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.3 days.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Price Performance

IEFA stock traded up $0.49 on Friday, hitting $97.22. 10,850,588 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 13,728,511. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a twelve month low of $81.17 and a twelve month high of $98.83. The business’s fifty day moving average is $96.84 and its two-hundred day moving average is $94.53. The stock has a market capitalization of $166.25 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.18 and a beta of 0.84.

Institutional Trading of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in IEFA. JPMorgan Chase & Co. grew its holdings in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 179.9% during the 4th quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 18,177,164 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,626,129,000 after purchasing an additional 40,918,156 shares during the period. Raymond James Financial Inc. raised its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 15.0% in the fourth quarter. Raymond James Financial Inc. now owns 43,144,722 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,859,727,000 after buying an additional 5,635,481 shares during the period. Morgan Stanley raised its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 4.9% in the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 104,883,248 shares of the company’s stock valued at $9,382,856,000 after buying an additional 4,892,313 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 2.2% during the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 224,863,248 shares of the company’s stock valued at $19,632,810,000 after buying an additional 4,837,732 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Bank of New York Mellon Corp lifted its position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 8.4% during the first quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 38,117,521 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,450,779,000 after buying an additional 2,957,022 shares in the last quarter.

About iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

The iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI EAFE IMI index, a market-cap-weighted index of developed-market stocks in Europe, Australasia and the Far East, and excludes North America IEFA was launched on Oct 18, 2012 and is managed by BlackRock.