WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund (NASDAQ:DXJS) Short Interest Update

WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund (NASDAQ:DXJS) saw a significant increase in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 62,700 shares, an increase of 44.5% from the February 13th total of 43,400 shares. Approximately 3.0% of the shares of the stock are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 15,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.1 days.

WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund Stock Performance

DXJS opened at $35.35 on Tuesday. The business’s fifty day moving average is $34.18 and its two-hundred day moving average is $34.11. The company has a market cap of $74.24 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 11.41 and a beta of 0.49. WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund has a one year low of $27.18 and a one year high of $35.64.

WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Monday, December 30th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 26th were given a dividend of $1.0247 per share. This is an increase from WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund’s previous dividend of $0.02. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, December 26th.

Institutional Trading of WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund

Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. National Bank of Canada FI purchased a new stake in shares of WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund in the third quarter valued at $26,000. Jones Financial Companies Lllp lifted its position in shares of WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund by 50.6% in the fourth quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 935 shares of the company’s stock valued at $32,000 after acquiring an additional 314 shares in the last quarter. SBI Securities Co. Ltd. purchased a new stake in shares of WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund in the fourth quarter valued at $59,000. WBI Investments LLC lifted its position in shares of WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund by 6.3% in the fourth quarter. WBI Investments LLC now owns 8,416 shares of the company’s stock valued at $291,000 after acquiring an additional 498 shares in the last quarter. Finally, 3EDGE Asset Management LP purchased a new stake in shares of WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund in the fourth quarter valued at $467,000.

About WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund

The WisdomTree Japan Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund (DXJS) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in small-cap stocks. The fund tracks a dividend-weighted index of Japanese small-cap stocks. The fund is hedged for currency fluctuations between the USD and JPY. DXJS was launched on Jun 28, 2013 and is managed by WisdomTree.