Gamco Investors INC. ET AL Buys 14,360 Shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF $IEFA

Gamco Investors INC. ET AL lifted its stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) by 21.6% in the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 80,703 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 14,360 shares during the period. Gamco Investors INC. ET AL’s holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF were worth $7,220,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Bank of Montreal Can boosted its holdings in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 109.0% in the 3rd quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 13,626,889 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,189,764,000 after acquiring an additional 7,107,210 shares in the last quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp boosted its holdings in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 7.6% in the 3rd quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 96,540,540 shares of the company’s stock worth $8,355,581,000 after acquiring an additional 6,837,301 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its holdings in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 2.2% in the 3rd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 224,863,248 shares of the company’s stock worth $19,632,810,000 after acquiring an additional 4,837,732 shares in the last quarter. Vantagepoint Investment Advisers LLC acquired a new position in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $365,315,000. Finally, Lido Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 684.5% in the 3rd quarter. Lido Advisors LLC now owns 1,789,545 shares of the company’s stock worth $156,250,000 after acquiring an additional 1,561,419 shares in the last quarter.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Price Performance

Shares of IEFA opened at $95.37 on Wednesday. The company has a market capitalization of $163.08 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.18 and a beta of 0.84. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a one year low of $79.82 and a one year high of $98.83. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $93.48 and its 200-day simple moving average is $92.26.

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.