Short Interest in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF (NASDAQ:EEMA) Expands By 19,600.0%

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF (NASDAQ:EEMA) was the target of a significant increase in short interest in February. As of February 15th, there was short interest totalling 19,700 shares, an increase of 19,600.0% from the January 31st total of 100 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 61,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.3 days.

Institutional Trading of iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in EEMA. BNP Paribas Financial Markets bought a new stake in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF in the third quarter valued at $674,000. Flow Traders U.S. LLC bought a new stake in shares of iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF during the 3rd quarter valued at $9,425,000. Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC bought a new stake in shares of iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF during the 3rd quarter valued at $209,000. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF by 41.4% during the 3rd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 2,960 shares of the company’s stock valued at $232,000 after buying an additional 867 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF by 2.6% during the 4th quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 84,746 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,072,000 after buying an additional 2,181 shares in the last quarter.

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF Stock Down 1.8 %

NASDAQ:EEMA opened at $73.18 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $461.03 million, a P/E ratio of 13.33 and a beta of 0.69. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $72.98 and its 200 day simple moving average is $74.39. iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF has a twelve month low of $65.67 and a twelve month high of $82.13.

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 20th. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 17th were issued a $1.0001 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, December 17th. This is a boost from iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF’s previous dividend of $0.31.

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF Company Profile

The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF (EEMA) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI EM Asia Custom Capped index, a market-cap-weighted index of Asian emerging markets firms. EEMA was launched on Feb 8, 2012 and is managed by BlackRock.