Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. Has $33.48 Million Holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF $EWC

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. boosted its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF (NYSEARCA:EWC) by 871.0% in the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 663,041 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after purchasing an additional 594,755 shares during the period. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. owned 0.99% of iShares MSCI Canada ETF worth $33,482,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Asset Management One Co. Ltd. boosted its stake in iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 0.4% in the third quarter. Asset Management One Co. Ltd. now owns 1,922,798 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $97,197,000 after purchasing an additional 8,117 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE increased its stake in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 22.8% in the second quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 1,769,516 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $81,752,000 after buying an additional 328,742 shares in the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. increased its stake in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 1.9% in the third quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 1,662,312 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $84,030,000 after buying an additional 31,104 shares in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 1.4% in the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 1,534,679 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $62,538,000 after buying an additional 21,113 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Balyasny Asset Management L.P. bought a new position in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF in the second quarter valued at about $51,589,000.

iShares MSCI Canada ETF Stock Down 1.5%

Shares of NYSEARCA EWC opened at $55.03 on Friday. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $55.89 and its 200 day simple moving average is $52.87. The company has a market cap of $4.07 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.77 and a beta of 0.94. iShares MSCI Canada ETF has a 12-month low of $36.70 and a 12-month high of $58.78.

iShares MSCI Canada ETF Profile

iShares MSCI Canada ETF (the Fund), formerly iShares MSCI Canada 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 publicly traded securities in the Canadian market, as measured by the MSCI Canada Index (the Index). The Index seeks to measure the performance of the Canadian equity market. It is a capitalization-weighted index that aims to capture 85% of the (publicly available) total market capitalization.