Krispy Kreme (KKD) - Earnings Out in 3 Hours, But Did You Know This?

KKD is trading $24.62, down 3.0 with IV30™ up 10.4%. The Symbol Summary is included below.


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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (Krispy Kreme) is a retailer and wholesaler of doughnuts complementary beverages and treats and packaged sweets.

This is a quick earnings note on KKD which is releasing earnings today AMC (in ~3 hours).  There are two phenomena regarding KKD that I just would not have guessed and when I saw them felt they were worth sharing.

Let's start with the Charts Tab (two-years) below. The top portion is the stock price, the bottom is the vol (IV30™ - red vs HV20™ - blue vs HV180™ - pink).

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First, on the stock side, we can see a remarkable price appreciation from ~$7 two-years ago to now just under $25.  Whoa... Who would of thought a doughnut company would return more than 250% in two-years?...

But there's something much more interesting going on with KKD, and it's the implied volatility.  Let's turn to the two-year IV30™ in isolation, below.

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We can see the implied spiking from ~37% in mid October to now over 65%.  But, that's mostly earnings related... What really surprised me is the level of the elevation in the IV30™.  The current level is not only an annual high, but is just on the brink of a multi-year high.  Why is that weird, well how about this:

VIX is down
The market is up
It's Holiday time
KKD price is up

Yeah... Elevated vol into earnings, no problem.  Multi-year highs in volatility into this earnings... Hmm...

Finally, let's turn to the Options Tab.

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Across the top we can see tat Dec vol is priced to 73.26% and Jan to 54.73%.  That vol diff is simply the earnings release.  Now the question is, will the earnings release really rock the stock as much as the option market reflects?  I guess we'll see in three hours.

This is trade analysis, not a recommendation.

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