Verus Capital Partners LLC Reduces Position in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF $QUAL

Verus Capital Partners LLC reduced its stake in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF (BATS:QUAL) by 13.0% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 31,339 shares of the company’s stock after selling 4,676 shares during the quarter. Verus Capital Partners LLC’s holdings in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF were worth $6,225,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in QUAL. Brighton Jones LLC grew its holdings in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF by 25.3% in the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 10,028 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,786,000 after buying an additional 2,023 shares in the last quarter. Heck Capital Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF in the 4th quarter valued at $81,990,000. Bison Wealth LLC grew its holdings in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF by 21.6% in the 4th quarter. Bison Wealth LLC now owns 19,062 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,395,000 after buying an additional 3,383 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC grew its holdings in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF by 45.5% in the 1st quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 19,681 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,363,000 after buying an additional 6,152 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. grew its holdings in iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF by 88.9% in the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 132,198 shares of the company’s stock valued at $22,591,000 after buying an additional 62,219 shares in the last quarter.

iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF Stock Down 0.1%

Shares of BATS:QUAL opened at $215.63 on Thursday. The stock has a market cap of $62.52 billion, a P/E ratio of 25.59 and a beta of 1.05. iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF has a 52-week low of $175.20 and a 52-week high of $216.44. The business has a fifty day moving average of $205.27 and a two-hundred day moving average of $201.89.

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.