Aptus Capital Advisors LLC Decreases Position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF $IEFA

Aptus Capital Advisors LLC trimmed its position in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) by 97.6% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 49,629 shares of the company’s stock after selling 2,059,085 shares during the quarter. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC’s holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF were worth $4,440,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in IEFA. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted its position in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 179.9% in the fourth quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 18,177,164 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,626,129,000 after acquiring an additional 40,918,156 shares in the last quarter. Bank of Montreal Can lifted its position in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 109.0% in the third quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 13,626,889 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,189,764,000 after acquiring an additional 7,107,210 shares in the last quarter. Morgan Stanley lifted its position in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 4.9% in the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 104,883,248 shares of the company’s stock valued at $9,382,856,000 after acquiring an additional 4,892,313 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its position in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 2.2% in the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 224,863,248 shares of the company’s stock valued at $19,632,810,000 after acquiring an additional 4,837,732 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company MN lifted its position in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 3.8% in the fourth quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 79,118,875 shares of the company’s stock valued at $7,077,975,000 after acquiring an additional 2,898,461 shares in the last quarter.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Stock Down 1.0%

Shares of BATS:IEFA opened at $96.98 on Tuesday. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a 52-week low of $79.82 and a 52-week high of $98.83. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $96.14 and its 200-day simple moving average is $93.54. The company has a market capitalization of $165.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.18 and a beta of 0.84.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Profile

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.