iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (NASDAQ:ACWX) Short Interest Up 48.9% in January

iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (NASDAQ:ACWX) saw a large increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 826,200 shares, an increase of 48.9% from the January 15th total of 554,900 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,356,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.6 days.

iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF Trading Up 0.3 %

Shares of NASDAQ:ACWX opened at $55.17 on Thursday. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $53.39 and a 200 day moving average of $54.36. The company has a market cap of $5.02 billion, a PE ratio of 14.05 and a beta of 0.82. iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF has a 12-month low of $49.78 and a 12-month high of $57.96.

iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 20th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, December 17th were paid a $0.7673 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, December 17th.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. International Assets Investment Management LLC boosted its stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 6,911.5% in the 3rd quarter. International Assets Investment Management LLC now owns 24,891 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,424,000 after purchasing an additional 24,536 shares during the period. Creative Planning boosted its stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 1.9% in the 3rd quarter. Creative Planning now owns 135,781 shares of the company’s stock worth $7,769,000 after purchasing an additional 2,547 shares during the period. GAMMA Investing LLC boosted its stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 51.0% in the 4th quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 1,984 shares of the company’s stock worth $103,000 after purchasing an additional 670 shares during the period. Bleakley Financial Group LLC boosted its stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 95.1% in the 3rd quarter. Bleakley Financial Group LLC now owns 10,963 shares of the company’s stock worth $627,000 after purchasing an additional 5,343 shares during the period. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted its stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 15.0% in the 3rd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 629,849 shares of the company’s stock worth $36,040,000 after purchasing an additional 82,015 shares during the period.

iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF Company Profile

The iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (ACWX) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI AC World ex USA index. The fund tracks the performance of a market-cap-weighted index of international stocks. It captures 85% of the publicly available market, thus excluding small-caps. ACWX was launched on Mar 26, 2008 and is managed by BlackRock.