Brown Advisory Inc. Buys 17,449 Shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA)

Brown Advisory Inc. boosted its stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) by 3.6% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 501,129 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 17,449 shares during the quarter. Brown Advisory Inc.’s holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF were worth $35,219,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in IEFA. Baird Financial Group Inc. grew its holdings in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 6.2% during the fourth quarter. Baird Financial Group Inc. now owns 5,459,329 shares of the company’s stock worth $383,682,000 after buying an additional 320,881 shares in the last quarter. Beverly Hills Private Wealth LLC grew its stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 5.3% during the 4th quarter. Beverly Hills Private Wealth LLC now owns 9,999 shares of the company’s stock worth $703,000 after acquiring an additional 500 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE raised its holdings in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 5.0% in the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 191,738,074 shares of the company’s stock valued at $13,475,352,000 after purchasing an additional 9,128,380 shares during the last quarter. Bearing Point Capital LLC bought a new stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF in the fourth quarter worth $2,432,000. Finally, Benjamin Edwards Inc. boosted its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 23.1% during the fourth quarter. Benjamin Edwards Inc. now owns 5,124 shares of the company’s stock worth $360,000 after purchasing an additional 963 shares during the last quarter.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Trading Up 14.7 %

Shares of IEFA stock opened at $80.07 on Tuesday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $75.91 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $74.10. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a 1 year low of $66.95 and a 1 year high of $80.28. The firm has a market capitalization of $135.31 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.62 and a beta of 0.82.

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.