Mondrian Investment Partners LTD Buys New Position in iShares MSCI South Korea ETF $EWY

Mondrian Investment Partners LTD purchased a new position in iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSEARCA:EWY) in the third quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund purchased 5,713 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock, valued at approximately $458,000.

Other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its holdings in iShares MSCI South Korea ETF by 27.8% in the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 239,956 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $12,967,000 after purchasing an additional 52,259 shares in the last quarter. CWM LLC boosted its stake in shares of iShares MSCI South Korea ETF by 328.8% during the 2nd quarter. CWM LLC now owns 596 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $43,000 after purchasing an additional 457 shares in the last quarter. Journey Advisory Group LLC purchased a new position in shares of iShares MSCI South Korea ETF during the second quarter valued at about $5,108,000. GenTrust LLC raised its stake in iShares MSCI South Korea ETF by 3.7% in the second quarter. GenTrust LLC now owns 18,244 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $1,310,000 after buying an additional 658 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Ranch Capital Advisors Inc. bought a new position in iShares MSCI South Korea ETF in the second quarter worth about $239,000. Institutional investors own 49.22% of the company’s stock.

iShares MSCI South Korea ETF Stock Performance

iShares MSCI South Korea ETF stock opened at $133.97 on Tuesday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $109.11 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $92.48. The stock has a market cap of $13.18 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.35 and a beta of 1.22. iShares MSCI South Korea ETF has a fifty-two week low of $48.49 and a fifty-two week high of $134.32.

iShares MSCI South Korea ETF Profile

iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the MSCI Korea 25/50 Index (the Index). The Index consists of stocks traded primarily on the Stock Market Division of the Korean Exchange. The Index is a free-float adjusted market capitalization weighted index with a capping methodology applied to issuer weights so that no issuer of a component exceeds 25% of the Index weight and all issuers with weight above 5% do not exceed 50% of the Index weight.