1,076,815 Shares in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF $EWZ Acquired by Temasek Holdings Private Ltd

Temasek Holdings Private Ltd purchased a new position in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA:EWZ) in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor purchased 1,076,815 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock, valued at approximately $41,339,000. Temasek Holdings Private Ltd owned 0.37% of iShares MSCI Brazil ETF as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. NewEdge Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 819.7% during the first quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 1,683 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $44,000 after purchasing an additional 1,500 shares during the period. Parallel Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 16.7% in the fourth quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 2,052 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $65,000 after purchasing an additional 293 shares during the period. Kapitalo Investimentos Ltda boosted its stake in shares of iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 462.5% in the fourth quarter. Kapitalo Investimentos Ltda now owns 900,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $72,000 after purchasing an additional 740,000 shares during the period. Triumph Capital Management acquired a new stake in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF during the 3rd quarter valued at $90,000. Finally, Waterford Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF during the 4th quarter worth $117,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 72.69% of the company’s stock.

iShares MSCI Brazil ETF Price Performance

Shares of EWZ stock opened at $35.62 on Wednesday. iShares MSCI Brazil ETF has a 12 month low of $26.30 and a 12 month high of $42.02. The firm has a market capitalization of $9.02 billion, a P/E ratio of 9.58 and a beta of 0.61. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $35.15 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $36.67.

iShares MSCI Brazil ETF Profile

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