SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Target of Unusually Large Options Trading (NYSEARCA:FEZ)

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (NYSEARCA:FEZ) was the target of unusually large options trading activity on Wednesday. Investors bought 35,792 put options on the stock. This represents an increase of approximately 553% compared to the typical daily volume of 5,478 put options.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Darwin Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF during the first quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Assetmark Inc. boosted its position in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 222.7% during the first quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 426 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $26,000 after purchasing an additional 294 shares in the last quarter. Hyposwiss Advisors SA purchased a new position in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF in the fourth quarter valued at about $38,000. Hantz Financial Services Inc. raised its holdings in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 7,238.5% in the fourth quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. now owns 954 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $61,000 after purchasing an additional 941 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Y.D. More Investments Ltd raised its holdings in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 66.7% in the first quarter. Y.D. More Investments Ltd now owns 1,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $62,000 after purchasing an additional 400 shares in the last quarter.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Stock Down 1.6%

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF stock traded down $1.10 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $67.92. 959,757 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,741,688. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $70.01 and a two-hundred day moving average of $67.41. SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF has a 12-month low of $59.56 and a 12-month high of $72.36. The company has a market cap of $4.30 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.43 and a beta of 0.95.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Company Profile

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible the price and yield of the EURO STOXX 50 Index (the Index). The Index is designed to represent the performance of some of the companies across components of the 20 EURO STOXX Supersector Indexes. The EURO STOXX Supersector Indexes are subsets of the EURO STOXX Index. The EURO STOXX Index is a broad liquid subset of the STOXX Europe 600 Index. The Index captures approximately 60% of the free-float market capitalization of the EURO STOXX Total Market Index, which in turn covers approximately 95% of the free float market capitalization of the represented countries.