Commonwealth Equity Services LLC Reduces Stock Position in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF $GDXJ

Commonwealth Equity Services LLC lowered its stake in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDXJ) by 4.0% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 150,829 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 6,234 shares during the quarter. Commonwealth Equity Services LLC owned approximately 0.18% of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF worth $14,937,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

A number of other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the business. BNP Paribas Financial Markets lifted its stake in VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 1,289.6% during the second quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets now owns 866,186 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $58,546,000 after purchasing an additional 803,854 shares during the last quarter. Twin Tree Management LP increased its stake in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 264.1% in the 2nd quarter. Twin Tree Management LP now owns 322,475 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $21,796,000 after acquiring an additional 518,941 shares in the last quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas grew its stake in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF by 104.2% in the 2nd quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas now owns 784,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $52,991,000 after buying an additional 400,000 shares during the last quarter. Eschler Asset Management LLP bought a new position in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF during the second quarter valued at $10,138,000. Finally, Qube Research & Technologies Ltd bought a new position in shares of VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF in the second quarter worth approximately $7,914,000.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Trading Up 0.8%

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF stock opened at $121.95 on Friday. VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF has a 12 month low of $43.95 and a 12 month high of $122.88. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $107.55 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $90.93. The firm has a market cap of $10.04 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.09 and a beta of 0.74.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF Profile

Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners Index (the Index). The Index provides exposure to a global universe of publicly traded small- and medium-capitalization companies that generate at least 50% of their revenues from gold and/or silver mining, hold real property that has the potential to produce at least 50% of the Company’s revenue from gold or silver mining when developed, or primarily invest in gold or silver.