Investors Buy Large Volume of SPDR S&P Retail ETF Call Options (NYSEARCA:XRT)

SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSEARCA:XRT) saw unusually large options trading on Wednesday. Stock investors acquired 25,724 call options on the stock. This is an increase of 46% compared to the average volume of 17,560 call options.

Institutional Trading of SPDR S&P Retail ETF

A number of large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Phoenix Financial Ltd. raised its position in SPDR S&P Retail ETF by 65.7% during the 4th quarter. Phoenix Financial Ltd. now owns 1,929,130 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $153,539,000 after purchasing an additional 765,000 shares in the last quarter. Susquehanna Advisors Group Inc. bought a new stake in shares of SPDR S&P Retail ETF in the 4th quarter valued at about $59,692,000. Wells Fargo & Company MN raised its holdings in shares of SPDR S&P Retail ETF by 164.4% in the 4th quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 162,878 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $12,963,000 after purchasing an additional 415,616 shares in the last quarter. GTS Securities LLC lifted its position in shares of SPDR S&P Retail ETF by 1,670.3% in the 4th quarter. GTS Securities LLC now owns 283,352 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $22,552,000 after purchasing an additional 301,397 shares during the period. Finally, Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. bought a new position in shares of SPDR S&P Retail ETF during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $15,450,000.

SPDR S&P Retail ETF Price Performance

Shares of SPDR S&P Retail ETF stock traded up $1.81 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $71.70. The stock had a trading volume of 4,632,280 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,880,416. SPDR S&P Retail ETF has a 12 month low of $66.07 and a 12 month high of $84.84. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $74.66 and its 200-day simple moving average is $77.43. The stock has a market cap of $340.58 million, a PE ratio of 13.74 and a beta of 1.34.

SPDR S&P Retail ETF Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 26th. Shareholders of record on Monday, March 24th were given a $0.1806 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, March 24th.

SPDR S&P Retail ETF Company Profile

SPDR S&P Retail ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible the performance of the S&P Retail Select Industry Index (the Index). The Index is an equal weighted market cap index. The Index represents the retail sub-industry portion of the S&P Total Market Index. The Fund invests in industries, such as apparel retail, automotive retail, food retail, department stores, Internet retail, general merchandise stores, drug retail, and hypermarkets and super centers.