NYSEARCA:EWJiShares MSCI Japan ETF Stock Price, Forecast & News

iShares MSCI Japan ETF's stock was trading at $49.67 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, EWJ shares have increased by 13.8% and is now trading at $56.50. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF announced a semi-annual dividend on Monday, December 16th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, December 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.716 per share on Friday, December 20th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.5%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 16th. View iShares MSCI Japan ETF's dividend history.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF's stock reverse split on 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.

News coverage about EWJ stock has been trending extremely negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. iShares MSCI Japan ETF earned a media sentiment score of -4.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the exchange traded fund a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutiShares MSCI Japan ETF.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other iShares MSCI Japan ETF investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (EWZ), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), General Electric (GE), Altria Group (MO) and Starbucks (SBUX).

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

iShares MSCI Japan ETF's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Morgan Stanley (11.94%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (9.04%), BlackRock Inc. (5.58%), Bessemer Group Inc. (1.35%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.05%) and Deutsche Bank AG (0.84%).

EWJ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., BlackRock Inc., Fisher Asset Management LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN, DRW Securities LLC, Deutsche Bank AG, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., and United Capital Financial Advisers LLC.

EWJ stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Bessemer Group Inc., Alliancebernstein L.P., Money Design Co. Ltd., Mackenzie Financial Corp, Comerica Bank, Rockefeller Capital Management L.P., and Palisades Hudson Asset Management L.P..

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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of EWJ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $56.50.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF has a market capitalization of $9.64 billion.

The official website for iShares MSCI Japan ETF is www.ishares.com.

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.