NYSEARCA:EWU - iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF Stock Price, News, & Analysis

iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)ARCA under the ticker symbol "EWU."

iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF declared a semiannual dividend on Tuesday, December 18th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, December 19th will be paid a dividend of $0.6373 per share on Monday, December 24th. This represents a dividend yield of 4.37%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 18th. View iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF's Dividend History.

Headlines about EWU stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF earned a news sentiment score of -1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 15th, there was short interest totalling 2,820,596 shares, an increase of 62.8% from the January 31st total of 1,732,799 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,835,646 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.5 days. View iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF's Current Options Chain.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF investors own include Micron Technology (MU), Constellation Brands (STZ), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO), Pfizer (PFE), Alibaba Group (BABA), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Monro (MNRO), Duke Energy (DUK) and iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM).

iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Morningstar Investment Services LLC (3.53%), BlackRock Inc. (3.03%), United Services Automobile Association (2.32%), LPL Financial LLC (1.77%), Mackenzie Financial Corp (1.37%) and Alps Advisors Inc. (1.05%).

EWU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pinnacle Advisory Group Inc., Stifel Financial Corp, 6 Meridian, Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd., UBP Investment Advisors SA, Ledyard National Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank and Zacks Investment Management.

EWU stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., United Services Automobile Association, Mackenzie Financial Corp, LPL Financial LLC, Madison Investment Holdings Inc., Morningstar Investment Services LLC, Accuvest Global Advisors and Barings LLC.

Shares of EWU 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 EWU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $32.91.

iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF has a market capitalization of $2.24 billion.