iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF Sees Unusually High Options Volume (NASDAQ:EWZS)

iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF (NASDAQ:EWZS) saw some unusual options trading activity on Friday. Stock traders purchased 4,206 call options on the company. This represents an increase of 13,044% compared to the typical daily volume of 32 call options.

iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF Stock Down 0.7%

Shares of EWZS traded down $0.10 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $12.95. 139,761 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 417,718. iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF has a fifty-two week low of $11.70 and a fifty-two week high of $16.46. The company has a market cap of $236.89 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.78 and a beta of 0.76. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $12.92 and its 200 day moving average is $13.70.

Institutional Trading of iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in EWZS. RPg Family Wealth Advisory LLC increased its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF by 10.5% in the 2nd quarter. RPg Family Wealth Advisory LLC now owns 235,728 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,060,000 after acquiring an additional 22,438 shares during the period. Risk Paradigm Group LLC raised its stake in shares of iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF by 10.5% in the second quarter. Risk Paradigm Group LLC now owns 235,728 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,060,000 after buying an additional 22,438 shares during the period. Bank of Nova Scotia grew its stake in shares of iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF by 12.1% in the 1st quarter. Bank of Nova Scotia now owns 138,832 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,056,000 after buying an additional 15,000 shares in the last quarter. Sankala Group LLC bought a new position in shares of iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF during the 4th quarter worth $1,182,000. Finally, Bank of America Corp DE boosted its stake in iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF by 54.9% during the 1st quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 38,059 shares of the company’s stock worth $564,000 after purchasing an additional 13,496 shares during the last quarter.

About iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF

iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF, formerly iShares MSCI Brazil Small Cap Index Fund (the Fund), is an exchange traded fund. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the MSCI Brazil Small Cap Index (the Underlying Index). The Underlying Index is a free-float adjusted market capitalization weighted index designed to measure the performance of equity securities in the bottom 14% by market capitalization of equity securities listed on stock exchanges in Brazil.