GTIV was the largest gainer today up 61.94% to $13.83 ($5.29). The Symbol Summary is included below.
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The news was simple: a buyout offer... which was quickly rebuffed. Here's a news snippet:
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What: Shares of Gentiva Health Services (NASDAQ: GTIV ) , a provider of home health, hospice, and community care, skyrocketed higher by as much as 70% after rival Kindred Healthcare (NYSE: KND ) made an unsolicited bid for the company.
Source: The Motley Fool via Yahoo! Finance Why Gentiva Health Services Inc. Shares Catapulted Higher, written by Sean Williams
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Good for GTIV shareholders, and one person in particular seemed quite lucky today... yeah, that kind of lucky.
Let's start with the Option Statistics (last 30 days).
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We can see that GTIV averages 261 total option contracts (calls and puts combined) traded a day on all strikes across all expiries. That means ~209 calls a day. That average is more like 122 calls traded day over a longer time period (90 days) per Livevol.
Ok... let's turn to the open interest (OI) chart for just one option in particular: the May 10 calls.
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Three phenomena that caught my eye:
1. The OI stepped up from 92 on 5-2-2014 to 1,842 today (12 days).
2. The OI grew in three large chunks (see the yellow circles at the bottom).
3. This is the bad one: The last chunk of 800 were bought two days ago (and three days before expiration).
Here's the Option Tab as of today.
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We can see the open interest as of today is 1,842. That interest grew in chunks of 400-900 on three distinct days. Each of those days showed several hundred percent the total daily average volume in just that single option.
And the price paid for those options... $0.10... yummy...
The Charts Tab (two-years) is below.
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The point here is simply that the move today puts the stock at multi-year highs.
Postmortem
Opening Order: ~1,700 May 10 calls bought for $0.10 for a cost basis of $17,000
Corrected (5-15-2014):
Today: The options expiring tomorrow are worth ~3.80 or $629,000 for a 3700% gain.
Is it possible these bets were pure speculation and totally legitimate on an immediate move up in GTIV? Yes.
Do I think this was legitimate speculation? No.
This is trade analysis, not a recommendation.
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