Kovack Advisors Inc. Purchases 512 Shares of iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF (BATS:EFV)

Kovack Advisors Inc. increased its position in shares of iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF (BATS:EFV) by 10.9% in the first quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 5,221 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 512 shares during the period. Kovack Advisors Inc.’s holdings in iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF were worth $284,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of EFV. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its stake in iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF by 174.0% during the third quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 11,139,913 shares of the company’s stock worth $545,079,000 after buying an additional 26,191,458 shares during the last quarter. Baird Financial Group Inc. raised its stake in iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF by 726.2% during the fourth quarter. Baird Financial Group Inc. now owns 2,261,406 shares of the company’s stock worth $117,819,000 after buying an additional 1,987,682 shares during the last quarter. Morgan Stanley raised its stake in iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF by 17.6% during the third quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 10,995,460 shares of the company’s stock worth $538,008,000 after buying an additional 1,649,271 shares during the last quarter. Pathstone Holdings LLC bought a new position in iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF during the fourth quarter worth $51,355,000. Finally, Morningstar Investment Services LLC increased its stake in iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF by 100.9% in the fourth quarter. Morningstar Investment Services LLC now owns 1,754,625 shares of the company’s stock valued at $91,293,000 after purchasing an additional 881,408 shares in the last quarter.

iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF Trading Up 1.2 %

EFV opened at $54.04 on Friday. iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF has a 1-year low of $49.15 and a 1-year high of $59.57. The company has a market cap of $16.82 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.89 and a beta of 0.70. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $54.59 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $53.19.

iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF Company Profile

iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF (the Fund), formerly iShares MSCI EAFE Value Index Fund, is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the MSCI EAFE Value Index. The Index is a subset of the MSCI EAFE Index and constituents of the Index include securities from Europe, Australasia (Australia and Asia), and the Far East.