iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Sees Unusually Large Options Volume (NASDAQ:EMB)

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (NASDAQ:EMB) saw unusually large options trading on Friday. Investors purchased 23,416 call options on the company. This is an increase of 50% compared to the average daily volume of 15,569 call options.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF

Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of EMB. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. lifted its stake in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 560.4% in the 2nd quarter. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. now owns 317 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $27,000 after acquiring an additional 269 shares during the period. Eagle Bay Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 1,240.0% in the 2nd quarter. Eagle Bay Advisors LLC now owns 335 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $29,000 after purchasing an additional 310 shares in the last quarter. Worth Asset Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF during the 1st quarter worth approximately $29,000. TD Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $31,000. Finally, Bartlett & Co. LLC grew its holdings in iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF by 66.4% during the second quarter. Bartlett & Co. LLC now owns 476 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $41,000 after acquiring an additional 190 shares during the period. 79.06% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Stock Performance

EMB traded up $0.27 on Friday, reaching $84.21. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 6,061,161 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,199,263. iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF has a fifty-two week low of $79.70 and a fifty-two week high of $89.97. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $82.35 and a two-hundred day moving average of $84.35.

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

The business also recently announced a monthly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, November 7th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 2nd were given a $0.362 dividend. This represents a $4.34 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.16%. This is an increase from iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.35. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, November 1st.

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.