Versant Capital Management Inc Reduces Stock Holdings in iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF $EMB

Versant Capital Management Inc reduced its holdings in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (NASDAQ:EMB) by 70.0% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 2,715 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 6,322 shares during the period. Versant Capital Management Inc’s holdings in iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF were worth $258,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of EMB. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. lifted its position in iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 133.7% during the second quarter. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. now owns 2,274 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $211,000 after purchasing an additional 1,301 shares in the last quarter. TD Private Client Wealth LLC raised its stake in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 211,000.0% in the second quarter. TD Private Client Wealth LLC now owns 6,333 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $587,000 after buying an additional 6,330 shares during the period. ORG Partners LLC raised its stake in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 19.2% in the second quarter. ORG Partners LLC now owns 10,036 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $929,000 after buying an additional 1,614 shares during the period. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC lifted its position in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 3.1% during the 2nd quarter. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC now owns 275,004 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $25,471,000 after buying an additional 8,222 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Vicus Capital increased its stake in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 1.4% in the second quarter. Vicus Capital now owns 16,900 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $1,565,000 after purchasing an additional 228 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 91.08% of the company’s stock.

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Stock Performance

EMB opened at $96.21 on Friday. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $96.30 and its 200 day moving average is $94.97. iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF has a fifty-two week low of $84.78 and a fifty-two week high of $97.07.

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Increases Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, December 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 19th were paid a $0.3829 dividend. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.8%. This is a positive change from iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.37. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, December 19th.

About iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF, formerly iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Fund (the Fund), is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the JPMorgan EMBI Global Core Index (the Index). The Index is a diverse United States dollar-denominated emerging markets debt benchmark, which tracks the total return of actively traded external debt instruments in emerging market countries. The Fund invests in a representative sample of the securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index.