54,000 Shares in iShares MSCI Germany ETF $EWG Bought by Anthracite Investment Company Inc.

Anthracite Investment Company Inc. purchased a new position in iShares MSCI Germany ETF (NYSEARCA:EWG) in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm purchased 54,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock, valued at approximately $2,285,000. Anthracite Investment Company Inc. owned 0.08% of iShares MSCI Germany ETF as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in EWG. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. lifted its stake in iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 4.6% in the first quarter. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. now owns 27,406 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $1,016,000 after acquiring an additional 1,216 shares during the period. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. bought a new position in iShares MSCI Germany ETF in the first quarter worth $211,000. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. bought a new position in iShares MSCI Germany ETF in the first quarter worth $52,000. Sunbelt Securities Inc. bought a new position in iShares MSCI Germany ETF in the first quarter worth $500,000. Finally, Cambridge Advisors Inc. bought a new position in iShares MSCI Germany ETF in the first quarter worth $207,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 53.42% of the company’s stock.

iShares MSCI Germany ETF Trading Up 0.1%

EWG opened at $41.59 on Friday. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $41.68 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $41.23. The company has a market cap of $2.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.79 and a beta of 1.07. iShares MSCI Germany ETF has a 12-month low of $31.03 and a 12-month high of $43.31.

iShares MSCI Germany ETF Profile

iShares MSCI Germany ETF, formerly iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund (the Fund), is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in the German market, as measured by the MSCI Germany Index (the Index).