Investors Buy Large 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 Thursday. Stock investors acquired 30,074 put options on the stock. This is an increase of approximately 901% compared to the average volume of 3,004 put options.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Alliancebernstein L.P. increased its position in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 1.9% during the second quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. now owns 624,585 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $28,718,000 after buying an additional 11,352 shares during the period. Wells Fargo & Company MN increased its position in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 30.1% during the second quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 958,802 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $44,086,000 after buying an additional 221,795 shares during the period. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. increased its position in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF by 43.2% during the second quarter. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. now owns 3,843 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $177,000 after buying an additional 1,159 shares during the period. Woodline Partners LP acquired a new position in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF during the second quarter worth approximately $20,947,000. Finally, Y Intercept Hong Kong Ltd acquired a new position in SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF during the second quarter worth approximately $314,000.

SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF Stock Performance

Shares of NYSEARCA FEZ opened at $44.58 on Friday. SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF has a fifty-two week low of $30.13 and a fifty-two week high of $47.40. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.65 billion, a PE ratio of 10.06 and a beta of 1.04. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $45.42 and its 200-day simple moving average is $44.97.

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.