World Investment Advisors Boosts Stock Holdings in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF $QUAL

World Investment Advisors boosted its position in shares of iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF (BATS:QUAL) by 135.7% in the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 64,632 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 37,211 shares during the period. World Investment Advisors’ holdings in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF were worth $12,837,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of QUAL. Two Sigma Investments LP increased its stake in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF by 99.7% during the 3rd quarter. Two Sigma Investments LP now owns 1,931,800 shares of the company’s stock worth $375,735,000 after buying an additional 964,500 shares in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its stake in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF by 403.0% during the 4th quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 1,107,669 shares of the company’s stock worth $220,005,000 after buying an additional 887,478 shares in the last quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management increased its stake in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF by 79.0% during the 4th quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management now owns 1,764,425 shares of the company’s stock worth $350,450,000 after buying an additional 778,465 shares in the last quarter. Coldstream Capital Management Inc. increased its stake in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF by 132.4% during the 3rd quarter. Coldstream Capital Management Inc. now owns 1,044,546 shares of the company’s stock worth $203,164,000 after buying an additional 595,017 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Heck Capital Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF during the 4th quarter worth approximately $81,990,000.

iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF Trading Up 1.3%

BATS:QUAL traded up $2.60 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $206.92. 864,349 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,958,179. iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF has a 52-week low of $156.13 and a 52-week high of $207.44. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $198.98 and its 200 day moving average price is $198.52. The company has a market cap of $60.00 billion, a P/E ratio of 25.59 and a beta of 1.05.

About iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF

The iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF (QUAL) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI USA Sector Neutral Quality index. The fund tracks an index of US large- and mid-cap stocks, selected and weighted by high ROE, stable earnings growth and low debt\u002Fequity, relative to peers in each sector. QUAL was launched on Jul 18, 2013 and is managed by BlackRock.