Lazard Asset Management LLC Sells 117,530 Shares of iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF $ACWX

Lazard Asset Management LLC lessened its stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (NASDAQ:ACWX) by 82.7% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 24,532 shares of the company’s stock after selling 117,530 shares during the quarter. Lazard Asset Management LLC’s holdings in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF were worth $1,733,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Bradley Foster & Sargent Inc. CT lifted its position in shares of iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 159.4% during the first quarter. Bradley Foster & Sargent Inc. CT now owns 38,909 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,664,000 after purchasing an additional 23,909 shares in the last quarter. Waverly Advisors LLC increased its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 1.2% in the first quarter. Waverly Advisors LLC now owns 731,003 shares of the company’s stock valued at $50,052,000 after purchasing an additional 8,460 shares in the last quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC increased its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 30.6% in the first quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 25,200 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,725,000 after purchasing an additional 5,900 shares in the last quarter. Pennington Partners & CO. LLC raised its position in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 5.7% in the 1st quarter. Pennington Partners & CO. LLC now owns 21,323 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,460,000 after purchasing an additional 1,156 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Compound Planning Inc. bought a new position in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF in the 1st quarter worth approximately $1,546,000.

iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF Stock Performance

Shares of ACWX opened at $75.66 on Tuesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $11.56 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.03 and a beta of 0.77. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $75.45 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $73.09. iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF has a 52 week low of $60.59 and a 52 week high of $77.58.

iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, June 18th. Investors of record on Monday, June 15th were given a $0.8524 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Monday, June 15th.

iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF Profile

The iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (ACWX) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI AC World ex USA index. The fund tracks the performance of a market-cap-weighted index of international stocks. It captures 85% of the publicly available market, thus excluding small-caps. ACWX was launched on Mar 26, 2008 and is managed by BlackRock.