SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Target of Unusually High Options Trading (NYSEARCA:FEZ)

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (NYSEARCA:FEZ) saw some unusual options trading on Tuesday. Traders acquired 15,682 put options on the stock. This is an increase of 468% compared to the typical volume of 2,762 put options.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted its stake in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 10.5% in the fourth quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 8,766,780 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $564,493,000 after buying an additional 833,784 shares during the period. 1607 Capital Partners LLC raised its holdings in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 215.4% in the 4th quarter. 1607 Capital Partners LLC now owns 2,688,253 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $173,097,000 after acquiring an additional 1,835,855 shares in the last quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN raised its holdings in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 40.3% in the 4th quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 1,432,911 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $92,265,000 after acquiring an additional 411,606 shares in the last quarter. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC bought a new stake in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF in the 4th quarter worth approximately $87,566,000. Finally, Prudential PLC grew its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 86.7% during the 4th quarter. Prudential PLC now owns 1,224,300 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $78,833,000 after purchasing an additional 568,600 shares in the last quarter.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Trading Down 3.3%

Shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF stock opened at $64.35 on Wednesday. SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF has a 1 year low of $47.63 and a 1 year high of $69.44. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $66.78 and its 200-day simple moving average is $63.78. The company has a market cap of $5.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.43 and a beta of 1.06.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Company Profile

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible the price and yield of the EURO STOXX 50 Index (the Index). The Index is designed to represent the performance of some of the companies across components of the 20 EURO STOXX Supersector Indexes. The EURO STOXX Supersector Indexes are subsets of the EURO STOXX Index. The EURO STOXX Index is a broad liquid subset of the STOXX Europe 600 Index. The Index captures approximately 60% of the free-float market capitalization of the EURO STOXX Total Market Index, which in turn covers approximately 95% of the free float market capitalization of the represented countries.