Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC Sells 23,527 Shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF $EWC

Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC lessened its position in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF (NYSEARCA:EWC) by 5.6% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 394,205 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 23,527 shares during the period. Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC’s holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF were worth $21,259,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Bank of America Corp DE increased its holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 22.8% during the 2nd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 1,769,516 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $81,752,000 after purchasing an additional 328,742 shares in the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. increased its holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 2.8% during the 4th quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 1,708,400 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $92,134,000 after purchasing an additional 46,088 shares in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 1.4% during the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 1,534,679 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $62,538,000 after purchasing an additional 21,113 shares in the last quarter. Balyasny Asset Management L.P. bought a new position in iShares MSCI Canada ETF during the 2nd quarter worth about $51,589,000. Finally, Ameriprise Financial Inc. increased its holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 8.4% during the 2nd quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 743,924 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $34,373,000 after purchasing an additional 57,457 shares in the last quarter.

iShares MSCI Canada ETF Trading Up 0.4%

EWC stock opened at $58.81 on Friday. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $56.97 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $55.36. The stock has a market cap of $5.26 billion, a PE ratio of 19.77 and a beta of 0.86. iShares MSCI Canada ETF has a 1 year low of $44.60 and a 1 year high of $58.97.

iShares MSCI Canada ETF Profile

iShares MSCI Canada ETF (the Fund), formerly iShares MSCI Canada Index Fund, is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). The 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 Canadian market, as measured by the MSCI Canada Index (the Index). The Index seeks to measure the performance of the Canadian equity market. It is a capitalization-weighted index that aims to capture 85% of the (publicly available) total market capitalization.