Short Interest in iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (NASDAQ:EMB) Declines By 6.7%

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (NASDAQ:EMB) saw a large decline in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 17,300,000 shares, a decline of 6.7% from the September 15th total of 18,540,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 5,929,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.9 days.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF

Several large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. grew its stake in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 280.2% in the 3rd quarter. Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. now owns 3,827,913 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $358,216,000 after buying an additional 2,821,148 shares in the last quarter. Tsfg LLC grew its stake in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 5.7% in the 3rd quarter. Tsfg LLC now owns 7,128 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $667,000 after buying an additional 382 shares in the last quarter. Future Financial Wealth Managment LLC grew its stake in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 5.8% in the 3rd quarter. Future Financial Wealth Managment LLC now owns 14,355 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,343,000 after buying an additional 789 shares in the last quarter. Versant Capital Management Inc grew its stake in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 1.6% in the 3rd quarter. Versant Capital Management Inc now owns 32,478 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $3,039,000 after buying an additional 525 shares in the last quarter. Finally, GAMMA Investing LLC grew its stake in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 112.1% in the 3rd quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 26,014 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $2,434,000 after buying an additional 13,751 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 91.08% of the company’s stock.

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Stock Down 0.6 %

NASDAQ:EMB opened at $92.14 on Friday. iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF has a fifty-two week low of $79.70 and a fifty-two week high of $93.97. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $92.37 and its two-hundred day moving average is $90.14.

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, September 6th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, September 3rd were paid a dividend of $0.3682 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, September 3rd.

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Company Profile

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF, formerly iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Fund (the Fund), is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the JPMorgan EMBI Global Core Index (the Index). The Index is a diverse United States dollar-denominated emerging markets debt benchmark, which tracks the total return of actively traded external debt instruments in emerging market countries.