iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF (NASDAQ:EMXC) Short Interest Update

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF (NASDAQ:EMXC) was the target of a significant drop in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 2,740,000 shares, a drop of 70.2% from the February 13th total of 9,180,000 shares. Currently, 1.0% of the shares of the company are sold short. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,685,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.0 days.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF

A number of institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in EMXC. Nations Financial Group Inc. IA ADV lifted its stake in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF by 4.3% during the fourth quarter. Nations Financial Group Inc. IA ADV now owns 9,769 shares of the company’s stock worth $542,000 after purchasing an additional 402 shares during the period. Raelipskie Partnership lifted its stake in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF by 6.5% during the fourth quarter. Raelipskie Partnership now owns 131,764 shares of the company’s stock worth $7,306,000 after purchasing an additional 8,060 shares during the period. Cullen Frost Bankers Inc. lifted its stake in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF by 7.0% during the fourth quarter. Cullen Frost Bankers Inc. now owns 2,267,834 shares of the company’s stock worth $125,751,000 after purchasing an additional 149,004 shares during the period. Twin Peaks Wealth Advisors LLC lifted its stake in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF by 25.2% during the fourth quarter. Twin Peaks Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 36,187 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,007,000 after purchasing an additional 7,284 shares during the period. Finally, Community Bank N.A. lifted its stake in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF by 16.6% during the third quarter. Community Bank N.A. now owns 45,682 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,792,000 after purchasing an additional 6,498 shares during the period.

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF Trading Up 1.4 %

EMXC stock traded up $0.74 during trading on Friday, reaching $55.37. 1,696,732 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,905,535. iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF has a twelve month low of $53.97 and a twelve month high of $63.25. The company has a market capitalization of $15.19 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.51 and a beta of 0.88. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $56.18 and a 200-day simple moving average of $58.09.

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF Dividend Announcement

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 20th. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 17th were given a dividend of $0.9999 per share. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, December 17th.

About iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF

The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF (EMXC) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI Emerging Markets ex China index. The fund tracks a market-cap- weighted index of emerging-market firms, excluding China. The index covers 85% of the universe by market cap. EMXC was launched on Jul 18, 2017 and is managed by BlackRock.