iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Eurozone ETF (NYSEARCA:HEZU) Shares Shorted: Short Interest Up 218.3% in September

iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Eurozone ETF (NYSEARCA:HEZU) was the recipient of a significant growth in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totaling 23,049 shares, a growth of 218.3% from the September 15th total of 7,242 shares. Currently, 0.2% of the company’s stock are sold short. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 121,170 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.2 days.

iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Eurozone ETF Price Performance

NYSEARCA HEZU opened at $48.03 on Wednesday. iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Eurozone ETF has a fifty-two week low of $41.68 and a fifty-two week high of $51.68. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $49.17 and its two-hundred day moving average is $48.06. The firm has a market cap of $559.55 million, a P/E ratio of 16.09 and a beta of 0.66.

Institutional Trading of iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Eurozone ETF

An institutional investor recently bought a new stake in iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Eurozone ETF stock. Farther Finance Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Eurozone ETF (NYSEARCA:HEZU) during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor acquired 865 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $42,000.

About iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Eurozone ETF

The iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Eurozone ETF (HEZU) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in total market equity. The fund tracks a cap-weighted index of large- and mid-cap securities from the eurozone, while hedging out its exposure to the euro currency relative to the US dollar. HEZU was launched on Jul 10, 2014 and is managed by BlackRock.