Ascent Wealth Partners LLC Acquires 36,991 Shares of iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF $IQLT

Ascent Wealth Partners LLC boosted its holdings in iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF (NYSEARCA:IQLT) by 8.8% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 457,635 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 36,991 shares during the quarter. iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF comprises approximately 2.5% of Ascent Wealth Partners LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 7th biggest holding. Ascent Wealth Partners LLC owned about 0.17% of iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF worth $21,156,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Carnegie Investment Counsel grew its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF by 9.6% in the 4th quarter. Carnegie Investment Counsel now owns 834,200 shares of the company’s stock worth $37,914,000 after acquiring an additional 72,725 shares during the period. BIP Wealth LLC purchased a new position in iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $1,301,000. Savvy Advisors Inc. raised its holdings in iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF by 41.1% during the fourth quarter. Savvy Advisors Inc. now owns 86,493 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,931,000 after purchasing an additional 25,174 shares during the last quarter. Landaas & Co. WI ADV raised its holdings in iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF by 85.4% during the fourth quarter. Landaas & Co. WI ADV now owns 39,102 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,777,000 after purchasing an additional 18,013 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management boosted its position in iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF by 84.8% during the fourth quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management now owns 6,444,572 shares of the company’s stock worth $292,906,000 after purchasing an additional 2,956,717 shares in the last quarter.

iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF Stock Performance

iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF stock opened at $49.47 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $13.63 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.86 and a beta of 0.83. iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF has a fifty-two week low of $41.20 and a fifty-two week high of $50.08. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $49.22 and its two-hundred day moving average is $48.15.

iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF Profile

The iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF (IQLT) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the World ex USA Sector Neutral Quality index. The fund tracks an index of large- and mid-cap stocks in developed countries, outside of the US. The index is selected and weighted for exposure to fundamental quality metrics. IQLT was launched on Jan 13, 2015 and is managed by BlackRock.