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

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (NYSEARCA:FEZ) was the target of some unusual options trading on Tuesday. Traders purchased 25,070 call options on the stock. This is an increase of 456% compared to the typical volume of 4,506 call options.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF

Institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV raised its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 10.7% in the second quarter. Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV now owns 4,324 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $216,000 after buying an additional 417 shares during the period. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. purchased a new stake in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF in the second quarter worth $472,000. Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC lifted its holdings in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 27.7% during the 2nd quarter. Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC now owns 56,456 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $2,823,000 after buying an additional 12,243 shares in the last quarter. Bank of Montreal Can raised its stake in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 1,811.7% during the second quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 914,183 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $46,879,000 after acquiring an additional 866,363 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Marshall Wace LLP lifted its holdings in shares of SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 680.5% in the 2nd quarter. Marshall Wace LLP now owns 159,649 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $7,987,000 after buying an additional 187,149 shares during the period.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Stock Up 1.9 %

FEZ traded up $0.97 during trading on Tuesday, reaching $51.40. The company had a trading volume of 504,168 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,519,565. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $48.78 and a 200-day simple moving average of $50.25. The stock has a market cap of $3.64 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.75 and a beta of 0.97. SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF has a 52 week low of $46.23 and a 52 week high of $54.16.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Company Profile

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.