iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF (BATS:ESML) Short Interest Update

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF (BATS:ESML) was the target of a large decline in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 156,934 shares, a decline of 49.0% from the June 30th total of 307,471 shares. Currently, 0.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold. Based on an average trading volume of 124,181 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.3 days.

Institutional Trading of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF

Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of ESML. Quent Long Short Global Small Cap Fund LP acquired a new position in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF during the 4th quarter worth $3,446,000. Birchwood Financial Partners Inc. purchased a new position in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF during the 4th quarter valued at about $2,546,000. Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. purchased a new position in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF during the 1st quarter valued at about $1,445,000. Flow Traders U.S. LLC acquired a new position in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF during the third quarter worth about $820,000. Finally, One Capital Management LLC raised its position in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF by 115.4% during the fourth quarter. One Capital Management LLC now owns 30,311 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,394,000 after acquiring an additional 16,242 shares during the last quarter.

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF Price Performance

ESML opened at $53.93 on Tuesday. iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF has a 1-year low of $40.79 and a 1-year high of $56.07. The stock has a market cap of $2.41 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.85 and a beta of 1.08. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $53.85 and its 200 day simple moving average is $50.88.

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF Company Profile

The iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF (ESML) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in small-cap stocks. The fund tracks an index of US small-cap companies with high environmental, social, and governance factor scores as determined by MSCI. ESML was launched on Apr 10, 2018 and is managed by BlackRock.