Vontobel Holding Ltd. Purchases Shares of 3,846 iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA)

Vontobel Holding Ltd. purchased a new stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor purchased 3,846 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $270,000.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. LPL Financial LLC increased its position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 4.3% in the 3rd quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 36,275,934 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,831,337,000 after acquiring an additional 1,506,562 shares during the period. US Bancorp DE increased its position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 2.0% in the 3rd quarter. US Bancorp DE now owns 32,868,438 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,565,395,000 after acquiring an additional 656,213 shares during the period. FMR LLC increased its position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 0.4% in the 3rd quarter. FMR LLC now owns 19,246,834 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,502,215,000 after acquiring an additional 72,670 shares during the period. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. increased its position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 0.7% in the 3rd quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 14,921,871 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,164,652,000 after acquiring an additional 106,405 shares during the period. Finally, Stifel Financial Corp increased its position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 2.7% in the 3rd quarter. Stifel Financial Corp now owns 9,656,141 shares of the company’s stock valued at $753,663,000 after acquiring an additional 257,103 shares during the period.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Stock Up 8.3 %

IEFA opened at $75.60 on Friday. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a twelve month low of $56.55 and a twelve month high of $70.84. The company has a fifty day moving average of $72.48 and a 200-day moving average of $74.04. The stock has a market cap of $118.68 billion, a PE ratio of 14.38 and a beta of 0.82.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Company Profile

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.