Strs Ohio Sells 31,650 Shares of iShares MSCI Brazil ETF $EWZ

Strs Ohio decreased its position in shares of iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA:EWZ) by 13.2% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 207,580 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 31,650 shares during the quarter. Strs Ohio owned approximately 0.07% of iShares MSCI Brazil ETF worth $7,969,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Ameriflex Group Inc. boosted its holdings in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 100.0% in the third quarter. Ameriflex Group Inc. now owns 880 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $27,000 after acquiring an additional 440 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 819.7% during the first quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 1,683 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $44,000 after buying an additional 1,500 shares during the last quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 16.7% in the fourth quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 2,052 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $65,000 after buying an additional 293 shares during the period. Kapitalo Investimentos Ltda lifted its holdings in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 462.5% in the fourth quarter. Kapitalo Investimentos Ltda now owns 900,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $72,000 after buying an additional 740,000 shares during the period. Finally, Triumph Capital Management bought a new position in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF in the third quarter valued at approximately $90,000. 72.69% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

iShares MSCI Brazil ETF Stock Performance

EWZ opened at $34.43 on Monday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $36.13 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $36.34. The firm has a market capitalization of $8.95 billion, a PE ratio of 9.58 and a beta of 0.61. iShares MSCI Brazil ETF has a 52 week low of $26.30 and a 52 week high of $42.02.

iShares MSCI Brazil ETF Company Profile

iShares MSCI Brazil Capped Index Fund (the Fund), formerly iShares MSCI Brazil Index 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 Brazilian market, as measured by the MSCI Brazil Index (the Index). The Index seeks to measure the performance of the Brazilian equity market. It is a capitalization-weighted index that aims to capture 85% of the (publicly available) total market capitalization.