Investors Purchase High Volume of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Put Options (NASDAQ:EMB)

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (NASDAQ:EMB) saw some unusual options trading activity on Tuesday. Traders purchased 37,325 put options on the company. This represents an increase of approximately 174% compared to the typical volume of 13,640 put options.

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Trading Up 0.1 %

Shares of EMB opened at $88.90 on Wednesday. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $88.54 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $87.14. iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF has a 52-week low of $79.70 and a 52-week high of $90.08.

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, May 7th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 2nd were issued a dividend of $0.3606 per share. This represents a $4.33 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.87%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, May 1st.

Institutional Trading of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Brevan Howard Capital Management LP boosted its stake in iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 167.4% in the fourth quarter. Brevan Howard Capital Management LP now owns 1,244,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $110,791,000 after acquiring an additional 3,089,000 shares during the last quarter. Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. increased its holdings in iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 184.7% in the fourth quarter. Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. now owns 2,550,683 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $227,164,000 after purchasing an additional 1,654,771 shares during the last quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets lifted its stake in iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 312.0% in the fourth quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets now owns 1,433,655 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $127,681,000 after buying an additional 1,085,683 shares during the period. Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec boosted its holdings in iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 32.4% during the third quarter. Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec now owns 4,161,152 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $343,461,000 after buying an additional 1,017,565 shares during the last quarter. Finally, SG Americas Securities LLC acquired a new position in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF during the 4th quarter worth about $79,150,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 91.08% of the company’s stock.

About iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF, formerly iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Fund (the Fund), is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the JPMorgan EMBI Global Core Index (the Index). The Index is a diverse United States dollar-denominated emerging markets debt benchmark, which tracks the total return of actively traded external debt instruments in emerging market countries.