Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance Costco Wholesale COSTS.
And retailers should know.
We noticed this today when the big position in the history of publicly available options that we are tracking here at Benzinga came up.
Whether this is an institution or just a wealthy person, we don’t know. But when something this big happens at COST, it often means someone knows something is going to happen.
So how do we know what this whale just did?
Today, Benzinga’s options scanner discovered 34 unusual options deals for Costco Wholesale.
That’s not normal.
The overall sentiment of these big money traders is split between 41% bullish and 58% bearish.
Of all the special options we uncovered, 20 are puts totaling $1,040,686 and 14 are calls totaling $752,439.
What is the course objective?
Considering the volume and open interest in these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range of $300.0 to $660.0 for Costco Wholesale over the past 3 months.
Volume and open interest development
Looking at volume and open interest is an insightful way to do due diligence on a stock.
This data can help you track liquidity and interest in Costco Wholesale options at a given strike price.
Below we can observe the evolution of volume and open interest of calls/puts for all Costco Wholesale whale activity within a strike price range of $300.0 to $660.0 over the last 30 days.
Costco Wholesale option volume and open interest over the last 30 days
Biggest options discovered:
symbol
PUT/CALL
commercial type
feeling
Ext. date
exercise price
total commercial price
open interest
volume
COSTS
PLACE
ACT
BULLISH
10/21/22
$545.00
$186,800
157
139
COSTS
CALL
ACT
BEARY
09/16/22
$540.00
$124,400
1.4K
149
COSTS
CALL
ACT
BULLISH
01/20/23
$660.00
$115,000
899
210
COSTS
PLACE
ACT
BEARY
10/21/22
$615.00
$80,600
75
21
COSTS
PLACE
ACT
BULLISH
10/21/22
$615.00
$80,500
75
32
Where does Costco Wholesale stand right now?
- With a volume of 1,115,849, the price of COST is up 1.32% to $544.32.
- RSI indicators are suggesting that the underlying stock may be overbought.
- The next earnings are expected to be released in 38 days.
What the experts say about Costco Wholesale:
- Goldman Sachs has decided to keep its Buy rating on Costco Wholesale, which currently has a price target of $573.
- Raymond James has chosen to maintain its Outperform rating on Costco Wholesale, which currently has a price target of $600.
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