Investors Buy Large Volume of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Call Options (NYSEARCA:FEZ)

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (NYSEARCA:FEZ) was the recipient of some unusual options trading activity on Monday. Stock investors purchased 30,070 call options on the company. This represents an increase of approximately 228% compared to the average daily volume of 9,168 call options.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. NewEdge Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 39.1% in the first quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 5,906 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $321,000 after buying an additional 1,659 shares during the period. Empowered Funds LLC acquired a new position in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF in the first quarter valued at approximately $3,006,000. Franklin Resources Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 224.1% in the second quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. now owns 875 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $52,000 after buying an additional 605 shares during the period. Hsbc Holdings PLC boosted its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 43.4% in the second quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC now owns 6,802 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $406,000 after buying an additional 2,060 shares during the period. Finally, Amundi boosted its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 54.2% in the second quarter. Amundi now owns 120,470 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $7,232,000 after buying an additional 42,322 shares during the period.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Stock Up 0.8%

NYSEARCA FEZ traded up $0.54 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $70.39. 690,957 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,189,785. The firm has a market cap of $4.73 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.43 and a beta of 0.95. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $66.75 and its 200 day moving average price is $65.67. SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF has a fifty-two week low of $56.72 and a fifty-two week high of $70.52.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Company Profile

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible the price and yield of the EURO STOXX 50 Index (the Index). The Index is designed to represent the performance of some of the companies across components of the 20 EURO STOXX Supersector Indexes. The EURO STOXX Supersector Indexes are subsets of the EURO STOXX Index. The EURO STOXX Index is a broad liquid subset of the STOXX Europe 600 Index. The Index captures approximately 60% of the free-float market capitalization of the EURO STOXX Total Market Index, which in turn covers approximately 95% of the free float market capitalization of the represented countries.