SPDR S&P Retail ETF Sees Unusually Large Options Volume (NYSEARCA:XRT)

SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSEARCA:XRT) was the target of unusually large options trading activity on Thursday. Stock traders purchased 31,678 put options on the company. This is an increase of approximately 108% compared to the average daily volume of 15,207 put options.

SPDR S&P Retail ETF Stock Down 2.2 %

SPDR S&P Retail ETF stock opened at $66.62 on Friday. SPDR S&P Retail ETF has a 52-week low of $66.07 and a 52-week high of $84.84. The firm has a market capitalization of $316.45 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.60 and a beta of 1.38. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $77.40 and a 200-day simple moving average of $77.97.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On SPDR S&P Retail ETF

Large investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Phoenix Financial Ltd. boosted its position in shares of SPDR S&P Retail ETF by 65.7% during the 4th quarter. Phoenix Financial Ltd. now owns 1,929,130 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $153,539,000 after acquiring an additional 765,000 shares during the last quarter. Susquehanna Advisors Group Inc. acquired a new position in shares of SPDR S&P Retail ETF during the 4th quarter valued at about $59,692,000. Wells Fargo & Company MN boosted its position in shares of SPDR S&P Retail ETF by 164.4% during the 4th quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 162,878 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $12,963,000 after acquiring an additional 415,616 shares during the last quarter. GTS Securities LLC boosted its position in shares of SPDR S&P Retail ETF by 1,670.3% during the 4th quarter. GTS Securities LLC now owns 283,352 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $22,552,000 after acquiring an additional 301,397 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. acquired a new position in SPDR S&P Retail ETF in the fourth quarter valued at about $15,450,000.

SPDR S&P Retail ETF Company Profile

SPDR S&P Retail ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible the performance of the S&P Retail Select Industry Index (the Index). The Index is an equal weighted market cap index. The Index represents the retail sub-industry portion of the S&P Total Market Index. The Fund invests in industries, such as apparel retail, automotive retail, food retail, department stores, Internet retail, general merchandise stores, drug retail, and hypermarkets and super centers.