iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF (BATS:ESML) Stock Price Up 1.6% – Here’s Why

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF (BATS:ESML)’s share price traded up 1.6% during trading on Thursday. The stock traded as high as $52.58 and last traded at $52.58. 179,376 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 6% from the average daily volume of 168,618 shares. The stock had previously closed at $51.75.

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF Trading Down 1.3%

The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $53.99 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $53.09. The stock has a market capitalization of $2.31 billion, a PE ratio of 17.85 and a beta of 1.08.

Institutional Trading of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Birchwood Financial Partners Inc. boosted its holdings in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF by 78.8% in the 1st quarter. Birchwood Financial Partners Inc. now owns 99,013 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,656,000 after purchasing an additional 43,642 shares during the last quarter. Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. acquired a new stake in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF during the 1st quarter worth approximately $1,445,000. Blue Edge Capital LLC boosted its holdings in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF by 20.3% in the second quarter. Blue Edge Capital LLC now owns 27,866 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,559,000 after purchasing an additional 4,694 shares during the period. Farther Finance Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF by 3.6% during the third quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 22,979 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,195,000 after buying an additional 800 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Atomic Invest LLC purchased a new stake in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $442,000.

About iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF

The iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF (ESML) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in small-cap stocks. The fund tracks an index of US small-cap companies with high environmental, social, and governance factor scores as determined by MSCI. ESML was launched on Apr 10, 2018 and is managed by BlackRock.