Unusual Options Activity Tue 5/14/24

The following options are exhibiting notable trading, potentially indicating changing sentiment toward the underlying stocks, and/or potentially representing positioning for increased volatility.

Bullish Call Activity:

• PLUG Weekly May24 4 calls are seeing interest with the underlying stock up 24% (volume: 2900, open int: 840, implied vol: ~168%, prev day implied vol: 89%). Co is expected to report earnings early August.
• LCID May 3.5 calls are seeing interest with the underlying stock up 11% (volume: 31.3K, open int: 19.0K, implied vol: ~123%, prev day implied vol: 79%). 1500 contracts traded in a single transaction. Co is expected to report earnings late July.
• CCL May 15 calls (volume: 2070, open int: 28.1K, implied vol: ~38%, prev day implied vol: 35%). Co is expected to report earnings mid-June.

Bearish Put Activity:

• GME May 20 puts are seeing interest with the underlying stock up 33% (volume: 13.3K, open int: 10.6K, implied vol: ~342%, prev day implied vol: 135%). Stock seeing strong gains amid meme interest. Co is expected to report earnings early June.
• NU May 10.5 puts (volume: 6070, open int: 980, implied vol: ~42%, prev day implied vol: 36%). Co is expected to report earnings early August.

Sentiment: The CBOE Put/Call ratio is currently: 0.89, VIX: (13.60, +0.00, +0.0%).
This week is options expiration -- Friday, May 17th is the last day to trade May equity options.

Unusual Options Activity Fri 11/3/23

The following options are exhibiting notable trading, potentially indicating changing sentiment toward the underlying stocks, and/or potentially representing positioning for increased volatility.

Bullish Call Activity:

• U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS) Nov 16.5 calls (volume: 31.3K, open int: 10, implied vol: ~28%, prev day implied vol: 26%).
• CCL Dec 13 calls are seeing interest with the underlying stock up 6% (volume: 7680, open int: 260, implied vol: ~47%, prev day implied vol: 46%). 3130 contracts traded in a single transaction. Co is expected to report earnings mid-December.
• ASO Nov 48 calls are seeing interest with the underlying stock up 4% (volume: 3810, open int: 0, implied vol: ~41%, prev day implied vol: 40%). 3810 contracts traded in a single transaction. FBI released NICS data. Co is expected to report earnings early December.
  

Bearish Put Activity:

• SKIN Nov 4 puts are seeing interest with the underlying stock up 8% (volume: 7700, open int: 10, implied vol: ~117%, prev day implied vol: 97%). 7500 contracts traded in a single transaction. Co is expected to report earnings early November.
• PLUG Nov 6.5 puts are seeing interest with the underlying stock up 5% (volume: 4820, open int: 70, implied vol: ~122%, prev day implied vol: 111%). Co is confirmed to report earnings Thursday, November 9 after the close.
  

Sentiment: The CBOE Put/Call ratio is currently: 1.00, VIX: (15.18, -0.48, -3.7%).
November 17 is options expiration -- the last day to trade November equity options.

Unusual Options Activity Tue 10/10/23

The following options are exhibiting notable trading, potentially indicating changing sentiment toward the underlying stocks, and/or potentially representing positioning for increased volatility.

Bullish Call Activity:

• PLUG Oct 7 calls are seeing interest with the underlying stock up 11% (volume: 11.8K, open int: 7370, implied vol: ~99%, prev day implied vol: 93%). 1000 contracts traded in a single transaction. Co is expected to report earnings early November.
• HLF Nov 17.5 calls (volume: 5560, open int: 0, implied vol: ~76%, prev day implied vol: 70%). 4100 contracts traded in a single transaction. Co is confirmed to report earnings November 1 before the open.
• STNE Nov 12 calls are seeing interest with the underlying stock up 5% (volume: 3010, open int: 10, implied vol: ~52%, prev day implied vol: 48%). 3K traded in a single transaction. Co is expected to report earnings mid-November.
• JBLU Oct 5 calls are seeing interest with the underlying stock up 4% (volume: 2260, open int: 500, implied vol: ~12%, prev day implied vol: 10%). Co is expected to report earnings late October.
  

Bearish Put Activity:

• SAVE Jan24 15 puts (volume: 1860, open int: 40, implied vol: ~120%, prev day implied vol: 99%). Co is expected to report earnings late October.
• JOBY Apr24 6 puts (volume: 2050, open int: 0, implied vol: ~68%, prev day implied vol: 65%). Kerrisdale Capital is short JOBY; "In its path to almost certain failure, it's going to incinerate billions of investor capital or just go bust." Co is expected to report earnings early November.
  

Sentiment: The CBOE Put/Call ratio is currently: 1.08, VIX: (16.71, -0.99, -5.6%).
October 20 is options expiration -- the last day to trade October equity options.

=Plug Power (PLUG) reported earnings on Thur 10 March 2016 (b/o)

Plug Power reports EPS in-line, beats on revs :

• Reports Q4 (Dec) loss of $0.05 per share, in-line with the Capital IQ Consensus of ($0.05); revenues rose 80.3% year/year to $38.4 mln vs the $36.17 mln Capital IQ Consensus.
• Co's Commentary: "...Plug Power continues to see increased customer adoption of its hydrogen and fuel cell technology, globally. We are well positioned to meet our targets outlined for 2016."

Plug Power (PLUG) reported earnings Mon 9 Nov 2015 (before open)

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** charts after earnings **

Plug Power misses by $0.01, beats on revs :

• Reports Q3 (Sep) loss of $0.06 per share, $0.01 worse than the Capital IQ Consensus of ($0.05); revenues rose 57.8% year/year to $31.4 mln vs the $30.7 mln Capital IQ Consensus.
• Notes that in the fourth quarter, co is on track for a third straight quarter of record revenues.