Wellspring Financial Advisors LLC Acquires 59,586 Shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF $IEFA

Wellspring Financial Advisors LLC increased its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) by 3.6% in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 1,711,037 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 59,586 shares during the period. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF accounts for approximately 2.1% of Wellspring Financial Advisors LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 13th biggest holding. Wellspring Financial Advisors LLC’s holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF were worth $153,069,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of IEFA. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 179.9% in the fourth quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 18,177,164 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,626,129,000 after purchasing an additional 40,918,156 shares in the last quarter. Bank of Montreal Can boosted its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 109.0% in the third quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 13,626,889 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,189,764,000 after purchasing an additional 7,107,210 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 2.2% in the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 224,863,248 shares of the company’s stock worth $19,632,810,000 after purchasing an additional 4,837,732 shares in the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC boosted its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 4.6% in the fourth quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 40,788,933 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,648,978,000 after purchasing an additional 1,799,732 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Axxcess Wealth Management LLC boosted its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 1,401.6% in the fourth quarter. Axxcess Wealth Management LLC now owns 1,889,064 shares of the company’s stock worth $168,996,000 after purchasing an additional 1,763,263 shares in the last quarter.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Price Performance

IEFA stock opened at $94.87 on Thursday. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a 52-week low of $79.82 and a 52-week high of $98.83. The company has a 50-day moving average of $95.76 and a two-hundred day moving average of $93.31. The stock has a market capitalization of $162.23 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.18 and a beta of 0.84.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Profile

The iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI EAFE IMI index, a market-cap-weighted index of developed-market stocks in Europe, Australasia and the Far East, and excludes North America IEFA was launched on Oct 18, 2012 and is managed by BlackRock.