iShares MSCI Germany ETF Target of Unusually Large Options Trading (NYSEARCA:EWG)

iShares MSCI Germany ETF (NYSEARCA:EWG) was the recipient of some unusual options trading activity on Tuesday. Traders bought 3,880 put options on the company. This represents an increase of approximately 81% compared to the typical daily volume of 2,141 put options.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On iShares MSCI Germany ETF

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in EWG. Hsbc Holdings PLC raised its stake in iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 18.2% during the 2nd quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC now owns 3,883,513 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $164,311,000 after buying an additional 596,996 shares during the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE grew its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 28.1% in the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 2,476,196 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $103,035,000 after acquiring an additional 542,642 shares during the period. Bank of Montreal Can grew its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 102.3% in the second quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 1,275,097 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $53,949,000 after acquiring an additional 644,647 shares during the period. Optiver Holding B.V. increased its position in iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 38.2% during the third quarter. Optiver Holding B.V. now owns 811,941 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $33,785,000 after acquiring an additional 224,299 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Tradewinds Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 3.8% in the third quarter. Tradewinds Capital Management LLC now owns 768,223 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $31,966,000 after acquiring an additional 28,228 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 53.42% of the company’s stock.

iShares MSCI Germany ETF Trading Up 0.7%

iShares MSCI Germany ETF stock opened at $42.82 on Thursday. iShares MSCI Germany ETF has a 12 month low of $32.82 and a 12 month high of $43.89. The firm has a market cap of $1.75 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.79 and a beta of 1.03. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $41.86 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $41.79.

About iShares MSCI Germany ETF

iShares MSCI Germany ETF, formerly iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund (the Fund), is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in the German market, as measured by the MSCI Germany Index (the Index). The Index seeks to measure the performance of the Germany equity market. It is a capitalization-weighted index that aims to capture 85% of the (publicly available) total market capitalization.