iShares MSCI South Korea ETF $EWY Shares Purchased by Banque Pictet & Cie SA

Banque Pictet & Cie SA boosted its stake in iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSEARCA:EWY) by 5.7% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 84,769 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after buying an additional 4,600 shares during the quarter. Banque Pictet & Cie SA’s holdings in iShares MSCI South Korea ETF were worth $8,241,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. TD Asset Management Inc raised its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI South Korea ETF by 85.5% during the third quarter. TD Asset Management Inc now owns 1,536,532 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $123,076,000 after acquiring an additional 708,000 shares during the last quarter. Schroder Investment Management Group boosted its stake in shares of iShares MSCI South Korea ETF by 18.0% in the third quarter. Schroder Investment Management Group now owns 1,257,343 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $100,889,000 after acquiring an additional 191,723 shares during the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its position in shares of iShares MSCI South Korea ETF by 13.3% during the third quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 1,208,253 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $96,781,000 after purchasing an additional 141,996 shares in the last quarter. Rafferty Asset Management LLC increased its position in shares of iShares MSCI South Korea ETF by 11.0% during the second quarter. Rafferty Asset Management LLC now owns 985,291 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $70,724,000 after purchasing an additional 97,762 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. raised its stake in iShares MSCI South Korea ETF by 79.7% in the 3rd quarter. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. now owns 823,077 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $65,848,000 after purchasing an additional 365,091 shares during the last quarter. 49.22% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

iShares MSCI South Korea ETF Stock Performance

Shares of EWY stock opened at $126.22 on Thursday. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $129.61 and its two-hundred day moving average is $105.60. The firm has a market capitalization of $12.41 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.35 and a beta of 1.22. iShares MSCI South Korea ETF has a fifty-two week low of $48.49 and a fifty-two week high of $154.22.

About iShares MSCI South Korea ETF

iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the MSCI Korea 25/50 Index (the Index). The Index consists of stocks traded primarily on the Stock Market Division of the Korean Exchange. The Index is a free-float adjusted market capitalization weighted index with a capping methodology applied to issuer weights so that no issuer of a component exceeds 25% of the Index weight and all issuers with weight above 5% do not exceed 50% of the Index weight.