Investors Purchase High Volume of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Put Options (NYSEARCA:FEZ)

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (NYSEARCA:FEZ) was the target of unusually large options trading on Monday. Traders acquired 69,244 put options on the stock. This represents an increase of 523% compared to the average daily volume of 11,121 put options.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. FMR LLC grew its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 9.2% in the third quarter. FMR LLC now owns 6,222 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $331,000 after purchasing an additional 523 shares in the last quarter. Benjamin Edwards Inc. bought a new stake in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF in the 3rd quarter worth about $511,000. HighTower Advisors LLC increased its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 13.9% in the 3rd quarter. HighTower Advisors LLC now owns 27,448 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $1,460,000 after buying an additional 3,345 shares during the last quarter. Quantinno Capital Management LP lifted its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 5.0% in the 3rd quarter. Quantinno Capital Management LP now owns 33,776 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,798,000 after acquiring an additional 1,619 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Stifel Financial Corp lifted its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 6.7% in the 3rd quarter. Stifel Financial Corp now owns 45,062 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $2,399,000 after acquiring an additional 2,830 shares during the last quarter.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Stock Performance

Shares of NYSEARCA:FEZ opened at $48.22 on Wednesday. The firm has a market cap of $3.98 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.85 and a beta of 1.01. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $54.36 and a 200 day moving average price of $51.56. SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF has a fifty-two week low of $47.11 and a fifty-two week high of $57.68.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Cuts Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 26th. Shareholders of record on Monday, March 24th were issued a dividend of $0.1458 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, March 24th.

About SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible the price and yield of the EURO STOXX 50 Index (the Index). The Index is designed to represent the performance of some of the companies across components of the 20 EURO STOXX Supersector Indexes. The EURO STOXX Supersector Indexes are subsets of the EURO STOXX Index.