Claro Advisors LLC Lowers Stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA)

Claro Advisors LLC decreased its stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) by 7.5% in the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 93,161 shares of the company’s stock after selling 7,502 shares during the quarter. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF comprises approximately 1.2% of Claro Advisors LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 14th largest position. Claro Advisors LLC’s holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF were worth $6,914,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Morgan Stanley boosted its position in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 1.8% in the third quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 88,364,142 shares of the company’s stock worth $5,686,233,000 after buying an additional 1,583,086 shares during the period. Jones Financial Companies Lllp lifted its stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 5.0% in the fourth quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 76,887,097 shares of the company’s stock worth $5,409,007,000 after acquiring an additional 3,655,216 shares in the last quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN lifted its stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 7.4% in the fourth quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 56,399,935 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,967,735,000 after acquiring an additional 3,893,711 shares in the last quarter. US Bancorp DE lifted its stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 5.3% in the fourth quarter. US Bancorp DE now owns 30,507,082 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,146,182,000 after acquiring an additional 1,543,838 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Raymond James & Associates lifted its stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 2.3% in the fourth quarter. Raymond James & Associates now owns 29,518,120 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,076,600,000 after acquiring an additional 673,843 shares in the last quarter.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Stock Performance

Shares of BATS:IEFA traded up $0.12 during trading on Monday, hitting $72.76. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 7,143,054 shares. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a fifty-two week low of $56.55 and a fifty-two week high of $70.84. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $73.92 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $72.18. The company has a market capitalization of $114.23 billion, a PE ratio of 14.38 and a beta of 0.82.

About iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

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.