Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management Purchases 14,783 Shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF $IEFA

Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management raised its position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) by 56.3% during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The firm owned 41,062 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 14,783 shares during the quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management’s holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF were worth $3,428,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of IEFA. Curat Global LLC bought a new position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF in the first quarter valued at about $26,000. WFA Asset Management Corp bought a new position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF in the first quarter valued at about $26,000. Toth Financial Advisory Corp bought a new position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF in the second quarter valued at about $26,000. Family Legacy Financial Solutions LLC bought a new position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF in the second quarter valued at about $35,000. Finally, McClarren Financial Advisors Inc. lifted its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 295.9% in the first quarter. McClarren Financial Advisors Inc. now owns 483 shares of the company’s stock valued at $37,000 after acquiring an additional 361 shares during the period.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Stock Performance

IEFA stock opened at $88.81 on Friday. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a fifty-two week low of $66.95 and a fifty-two week high of $87.36. The business’s 50-day moving average is $85.72 and its two-hundred day moving average is $81.79. The company has a market cap of $151.86 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.18 and a beta of 0.84.

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.