Matauro LLC Purchases New Stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA)

Matauro LLC purchased a new stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) in the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm purchased 26,196 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,841,000.

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

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Trading Up 8.3 %

Shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF stock opened at $75.60 on Friday. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $72.48 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $74.04. The company has a market cap of $118.68 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.38 and a beta of 0.82. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a 12-month low of $56.55 and a 12-month high of $70.84.

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.