First Trust IPOX Europe Equity Opportunities ETF (NASDAQ:FPXE) Short Interest Update

First Trust IPOX Europe Equity Opportunities ETF (NASDAQ:FPXE) was the target of a large increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 3,300 shares, an increase of 135.7% from the December 31st total of 1,400 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 500 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.6 days.

First Trust IPOX Europe Equity Opportunities ETF Stock Performance

NASDAQ:FPXE traded up $0.13 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $27.71. 467 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 963. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $26.37 and its 200 day simple moving average is $26.12. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.16 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.76 and a beta of 1.00. First Trust IPOX Europe Equity Opportunities ETF has a fifty-two week low of $22.50 and a fifty-two week high of $28.04.

First Trust IPOX Europe Equity Opportunities ETF Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, December 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 13th were given a $0.126 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, December 13th.

About First Trust IPOX Europe Equity Opportunities ETF

The First Trust IPOX Europe Equity Opportunities ETF (FPXE) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the IPOX 100 Europe index, a market-cap-weighted index of the 100 largest European IPOs over the first 1,000 trading days for each stock. FPXE was launched on Oct 4, 2018 and is managed by First Trust.