Sound View Wealth Advisors Group LLC Sells 670 Shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF $ESGU

Sound View Wealth Advisors Group LLC reduced its stake in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (NASDAQ:ESGU) by 20.1% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 2,666 shares of the company’s stock after selling 670 shares during the period. Sound View Wealth Advisors Group LLC’s holdings in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF were worth $361,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Focus Partners Wealth boosted its stake in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF by 6.1% during the 1st quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 50,552 shares of the company’s stock worth $6,163,000 after buying an additional 2,887 shares during the last quarter. Tradewinds LLC. acquired a new stake in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF in the second quarter valued at about $318,000. Acadian Asset Management LLC raised its holdings in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF by 112.7% during the first quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC now owns 24,443 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,979,000 after acquiring an additional 12,949 shares in the last quarter. SigFig Wealth Management LLC raised its holdings in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF by 15.6% during the second quarter. SigFig Wealth Management LLC now owns 18,339 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,464,000 after acquiring an additional 2,480 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Single Point Partners LLC boosted its position in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF by 3.1% during the second quarter. Single Point Partners LLC now owns 2,683 shares of the company’s stock valued at $363,000 after purchasing an additional 81 shares during the last quarter.

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF Stock Up 1.6%

ESGU stock opened at $149.40 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of $15.28 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.34 and a beta of 1.03. iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF has a twelve month low of $105.18 and a twelve month high of $150.93. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $145.63 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $137.61.

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, September 19th. Investors of record on Tuesday, September 16th were paid a $0.3655 dividend. This is a boost from iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.32. This represents a $1.46 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, September 16th.

About iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF

The iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI USA Extended ESG Focus index. The fund tracks an index composed of US companies that are selected and weighted for positive environmental, social and governance characteristics. ESGU was launched on Dec 1, 2016 and is managed by BlackRock.