Financial Perspectives Inc Raises Position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA)

Financial Perspectives Inc lifted its stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) by 24.0% during the 1st quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 4,234 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 819 shares during the period. Financial Perspectives Inc’s holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF were worth $314,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Peoples Bank KS raised its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 275.0% in the fourth quarter. Peoples Bank KS now owns 375 shares of the company’s stock valued at $26,000 after acquiring an additional 275 shares in the last quarter. WFA Asset Management Corp lifted its position in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 102.3% during the first quarter. WFA Asset Management Corp now owns 348 shares of the company’s stock worth $26,000 after purchasing an additional 176 shares during the last quarter. RE Dickinson Investment Advisors LLC grew its stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 6,850.0% in the fourth quarter. RE Dickinson Investment Advisors LLC now owns 417 shares of the company’s stock worth $29,000 after purchasing an additional 411 shares in the last quarter. First Community Trust NA bought a new stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF in the first quarter valued at about $33,000. Finally, Pingora Partners LLC bought a new position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF during the 4th quarter worth approximately $34,000.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Stock Up 1.2 %

Shares of IEFA traded up $0.86 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $73.78. The stock had a trading volume of 5,928,044 shares. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a fifty-two week low of $56.55 and a fifty-two week high of $70.84. The company has a market cap of $115.83 billion, a PE ratio of 14.38 and a beta of 0.82. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $73.99 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $72.24.

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.