NYSEARCA:EWJ - iShares MSCI Japan ETF Stock Price, Price Target & More

iShares MSCI Japan ETF trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)ARCA under the ticker symbol "EWJ."

iShares MSCI Japan ETF announced a semiannual dividend on Tuesday, December 19th. Investors of record on Wednesday, December 20th will be given a dividend of $0.3994 per share on Tuesday, December 26th. This represents a yield of 1.34%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 19th. This is a boost from iShares MSCI Japan ETF's previous semiannual dividend of $0.35. View iShares MSCI Japan ETF's Dividend History.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF's stock reverse split on the morning of Monday, November 7th 2016. The 1-4 reverse split was announced on Friday, October 14th 2016. The number of shares owned by shareholders was adjusted after the closing bell on Friday, November 4th 2016. An investor that had 100 shares of iShares MSCI Japan ETF stock prior to the reverse split would have 25 shares after the split.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF saw a decrease in short interest in April. As of April 13th, there was short interest totalling 9,982,546 shares, a decrease of 31.6% from the March 30th total of 14,602,228 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 7,883,051 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.3 days.

Media stories about EWJ stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern. Accern identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. iShares MSCI Japan ETF earned a coverage optimism score of 0.13 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the exchange traded fund an impact score of 46.41 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (12.48%), BlackRock Inc. (5.07%), 1607 Capital Partners LLC (1.03%), The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (0.99%), Windhaven Investment Management Inc. (0.95%) and AGF Investments Inc. (0.92%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for iShares MSCI Japan ETF.

EWJ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Eaton Vance Management, AGF Investments Inc., Comerica Bank, Franklin Resources Inc., W. E. Donoghue & Co. LLC, Allianz Asset Management GmbH and Afam Capital Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for iShares MSCI Japan ETF.

EWJ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Flow Traders U.S. LLC, Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Co, Employees Retirement System of Texas, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company , VCU Investment Management Co, 1607 Capital Partners LLC and Relative Value Partners Group LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for iShares MSCI Japan ETF.

Shares of EWJ can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of EWJ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $61.08.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF has a market capitalization of $22.19 billion.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF's mailing address is Suite 1405, 525 Washington Boulevard, JERSEY CITY, 94105, United States. The exchange traded fund can be reached via phone at +1-617-9377270.