iShares MSCI France ETF (EWQ) closed at $42.12 on October 16, 2026, down 0.3% from the previous close, on volume of 552,430 shares (30-day average 368,835).
Data as of October 16, 2026.
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The iShares MSCI France Index Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance before fees and expenses of publicly traded securities in the French market as measured by the MSCI France Index.
iShares MSCI France ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol EWQ.
As of October 19, 2026, EWQ stock price declined to $41.60 with 432,728 million shares trading.
EWQ has a beta of 0.74, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. EWQ has a correlation of 0.29 to the broad based SPY ETF.
EWQ has a market cap of $332.80 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, EWQ traded as high as $48.39 and as low as $33.66.
EWQ has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -4.9% while the SPY ETF gained +17.4%. EWQ has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -7.9% and -1.5%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.5% and -0.2%, respectively.
EWQ support price is $41.69 and resistance is $42.55 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that EWQ shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
