Operose Advisors LLC Sells 17,920 Shares of iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF $IJR

Operose Advisors LLC lowered its stake in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:IJR) by 16.3% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 91,929 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 17,920 shares during the quarter. iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF comprises 2.6% of Operose Advisors LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 6th biggest position. Operose Advisors LLC’s holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF were worth $11,048,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in IJR. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. lifted its holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 0.6% in the 4th quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 42,562,587 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $5,115,172,000 after purchasing an additional 235,129 shares in the last quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp lifted its holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 549.5% in the 3rd quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 14,885,601 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,763,740,000 after purchasing an additional 12,593,909 shares in the last quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. lifted its holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 1.0% in the 4th quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 7,957,626 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $956,347,000 after purchasing an additional 79,334 shares in the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Investment Management Company LLC lifted its holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 35.0% in the 4th quarter. Northwestern Mutual Investment Management Company LLC now owns 6,236,257 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $749,473,000 after purchasing an additional 1,617,116 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Ameriprise Financial Inc. lifted its holdings in iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF by 2.1% in the 2nd quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 5,507,552 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $601,837,000 after purchasing an additional 112,747 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 66.92% of the company’s stock.

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF Stock Performance

Shares of IJR stock opened at $139.72 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $131.99 and its two-hundred day moving average is $127.30. The firm has a market capitalization of $104.32 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.52 and a beta of 1.03. iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF has a fifty-two week low of $103.75 and a fifty-two week high of $140.53.

About iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF, formerly iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Index Fund, seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Standard & Poor’s SmallCap 600 Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of publicly traded securities in the small-capitalization sector of the United States equity market. The Index serves as the underlying index for the S&P 600/Citigroup Growth and Value Index series. The component stocks are weighted according to the total float-adjusted market value of their outstanding shares.