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EWY

iShares MSCI South Korea ETF · ARCX · ETF · 131 sessions on record
$182.78▼ −4.32 · −2.3%from $187.10 the session before · Sep 30, 2026 close · end of day
Open
$185.24
High
$185.67
Low
$181.76
Day's range
$3.92.1% of the previous close
VWAP
$182.86close −0.04% from it
Volume, shares
16.4M1.29× the 20-session average
Traded, $
$3.00B
Trades
192K85 shares per trade
Previous close
$187.10−4.32 to the close
Market cap
—
Day range26% of the way up
$181.76$185.67
52-week range64% of the way up
$114.92 Mar 31$220.89 Jun 18

−17% from the high · +59% from the low

The desk read · Sep 30expiry Oct 16 · 16 days
balanced
options read
calls 47% · puts 53% of OI
1.14
puts per call, by OI
Oct 16 expiry 1.45
$180.00
max pain
−1.5% from the close
$220.00
most call OI
16.9K contracts · +20% from the close
▲ +1.5%
option OI on the day
+16.5K contracts · 1.12M open

Balanced into a 16-day expiry: 1.14 puts per call by open interest, option OI +1.5% on the day, the most call OI sits at $220.00, the most put OI at $150.00, max pain $180.00.

Options

Sep 30 open interest · 14 expiries listed

EWY options carry 1.12M contracts of open interest across 14 expiries, 22% of it in the Oct 16 contract, with 1.14 puts per call.

Open interest by expirythe next 8 of 14 expiries · share of all open interest
Option open interest by expiry, the next 8 expiries
ExpiryCall OI · on the dayPut OI · on the dayPuts per callShare of OI %Strikes
Oct 22 days30.4K+2.29K58.4K+5471.927.989
Oct 99 days24.7K+2.54K10K+3520.413.180
Oct 1616 days101K+198146K+1.36K1.4522100
Oct 2323 days8.09K08.38K+1771.041.571
Oct 3030 days8.69K+1.31K9.85K+3201.131.766
Nov 637 days1.92K+411.06K+4450.550.2763
Nov 2051 days34.3K+20674.9K+5.08K2.189.865
Dec 1879 days107K+6863.9K+3120.591572

67% of open interest sits beyond the Oct 16 contract · 100 strikes listed for it · 1.12M contracts open in all

Monthly contractOct 16 expiry · 16 days

The Oct 16 contract holds 101K calls and 146K puts, the most call OI at $220.00 and the most put OI at $150.00; max pain $180.00, −1.5% from the close.

Call OI, contracts
101K+198 on the day
Put OI, contracts
146K+1.36K on the day
Puts per call, by OI
1.45all expiries 1.14
Max pain
$180.00−1.5% from the close
Strikes listed
100for this expiry
Open interest by strike, contractstop three strikes each side
Calls
Strike
Puts
16.9K
$220.00
12.7K
$190.00
8.53K
$165.00
$150.00
21K
$135.00
19.9K
$130.00
12.8K
Open interest added on the day, contractsthree largest additions each side
Calls
Strike
Puts
+50
$191.00
+486
$188.00
+56
$186.00
$179.00
+232
$176.00
+716
$175.00
+325
Close $ · S&P 500 rebased to the first close126 sessions to Sep 30 · axis fixed at 4 × ATR-14 around the last close
131 sessions on file · from Mar 25
EWY close over the last 126 sessions, with S&P 500 rebased to the first close122.87171.03219.20axis spans 78%S&P 500EWYApr 1Jul 2Sep 30126 sessions from Apr 1 to Sep 30; the price axis spans 78 percent.

Shareholding

quarter to Jun 2026 · SEC Form 13F

No open-market insider buying or selling in the last 90 days.

Held by 13F managers
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Shares held
183M+13% on Mar 2026 among managers filing both
Managers holding
568442 a quarter earlier
Largest holder
—BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/
Largest 10 holderspercent of shares outstanding · change in shares against the previous quarter
Largest 13F holders of EWY
ManagerSharesOf outstandingValueChange on quarter
BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/27M—$5.44B+5.1M
BNP PARIBAS FINANCIAL MARKETS16.1M—$3.26B+5.04M
UBS Group AG11.6M—$2.35B+293K
MORGAN STANLEY11.4M—$2.30B+4.71M
State of Tennessee, Department of Treasury10.5M—$2.12B−1.88M
Rafferty Asset Management, LLC10.2M—$2.06B+1.07M
BlackRock, Inc.7.98M—$1.61B+3.88M
CITIGROUP INC6.35M—$1.28B+3.67M
BARCLAYS PLC6.33M—$1.28B+3.31M
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO5.64M—$1.11B—

Corporate actions

exchange records

No corporate action on record for EWY yet.

Price history

131 sessions on record · to Sep 30 · end of day

EWY is +4.0% over 20 sessions against the S&P 500's +0.1%, 17% below its 52-week high, realised volatility 48% annualised.

Returns against S&P 500longest window first · S&P 500 over the same sessions
Returns of the stock and S&P 500 over six windows, longest first
WindowFrom $EWY %S&P 500 %Difference pp
120 sessionssince Apr 9$139.29▲ +31%▲ +12%+19
60 sessionssince Jul 7$181.29▲ +0.82%▲ +2.0%−1.2
20 sessionssince Sep 1$175.80▲ +4.0%▲ +0.11%+3.9
5 sessionssince Sep 23$185.66▼ −1.5%▼ −0.67%−0.88
1 sessionsince Sep 29$187.10▼ −2.3%▼ −0.21%−2.1
Averages of the closeclose against each average
5-session average
$184.63close −1.0% from it
20-session average
$184.15close −0.74% from it
50-session average
$175.98close +3.9% from it
Range and volumetrue range over 14 sessions · high to low over 20 · volume against the 20-session average
Average true range, 14
$6.43.5% of the close
Average day's range, 20
$4.02.2% of the close
Volume against 20 sessions
1.29×16.4M vs 12.8M average
Volatility and co-movement with S&P 500annualised from daily returns
Realised volatility, 20
48%≈ ±3.0% a session · moved more than that on 7 of 20
Realised volatility, 60
59%≈ ±3.7% a session · moved more than that on 17 of 60
Beta to S&P 500, 60
2.97moved with S&P 500 on 39 of 60 sessions
Up and down sessionscloses above and below the previous close
Last 20 sessions
12 up · 8 downof 20
Last 60 sessions
33 up · 27 downof 60
Best session, 250
▲ +12%Jul 30
Worst session, 250
▼ −14%Jun 5

1 headlines on EWY

latest Sep 29, 2026 · links go to the publisher

Short-sale volume

25 sessions · to Sep 30, 2026

Short sales were 74% of reported volume on Sep 30, 2026, against 49% over the last 25 sessions.

Last 10 sessionsshare of the day's reported volume
EWY daily short-sale volume
SessionShort volumeReported volumeShort share
Sep 30, 20263.96M5.32M74.5%
Sep 29, 2026930K1.85M50.4%
Sep 28, 2026935K2.23M41.9%
Sep 25, 20261.22M2.81M43.3%
Sep 24, 20261.6M2.62M61.1%
Sep 23, 20262.39M3.5M68.3%
Sep 22, 20261.85M3.39M54.6%
Sep 21, 20261.59M3.87M41.1%
Sep 18, 20261.38M2.5M55.1%
Sep 17, 20261.4M2.32M60.2%

Filings

SEC EDGAR · newest first
EWY SEC filings
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About iShares MSCI South Korea ETF

SEC and exchange records
Company
iShares MSCI South Korea ETF
Exchange
ARCX
SEC CIK
1100663
Sessions on record
131
Price source
End of day · delayed
Computed
2 Oct, 01:46 am IST

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