Absolute Capital Management LLC Grows Position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA)

Absolute Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) by 7.6% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 3,289 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 232 shares during the period. Absolute Capital Management LLC’s holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF were worth $231,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other large investors have also bought and sold shares of the stock. Jones Financial Companies Lllp lifted its stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 1.3% during the 4th quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 88,571,458 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,224,802,000 after acquiring an additional 1,150,886 shares in the last quarter. Raymond James Financial Inc. bought a new position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF during the 4th quarter valued at $2,637,205,000. LPL Financial LLC lifted its stake 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 acquiring an additional 1,506,562 shares in the last quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp lifted its stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 9.5% during the 4th quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 30,101,231 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,115,515,000 after acquiring an additional 2,608,901 shares in the last quarter. Finally, FMR LLC lifted its stake 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 acquiring an additional 72,670 shares in the last quarter.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Trading Up 11.8 %

Shares of BATS:IEFA opened at $78.03 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $74.83 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $74.35. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a 1-year low of $68.74 and a 1-year high of $78.95. The stock has a market cap of $131.10 billion, a PE ratio of 16.46 and a beta of 0.88.

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.