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Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bearish stance on Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST).
And retail traders should know.
We noticed this today when the trades showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.
Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don't know. But when something this big happens with COST, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen.
So how do we know what these investors just did?
Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 23 uncommon options trades for Costco Wholesale.
This isn't normal.
The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 26% bullish and 39%, bearish.
Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 5 are puts, for a total amount of $228,375, and 18 are calls, for a total amount of $862,106.
Based on the trading activity, it appears that the significant investors are aiming for a price territory stretching from $635.0 to $1000.0 for Costco Wholesale over the recent three months.
Looking at the volume and open interest is an insightful way to conduct due diligence on a stock.
This data can help you track the liquidity and interest for Costco Wholesale's options for a given strike price.
Below, we can observe the evolution of the volume and open interest of calls and puts, respectively, for all of Costco Wholesale's whale activity within a strike price range from $635.0 to $1000.0 in the last 30 days.
| Symbol | PUT/CALL | Trade Type | Sentiment | Exp. Date | Ask | Bid | Price | Strike Price | Total Trade Price | Open Interest | Volume |
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| COST | CALL | TRADE | BEARISH | 12/20/24 | $130.4 | $128.6 | $128.6 | $775.00 | $128.6K | 72 | 2 |
| COST | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 06/21/24 | $4.85 | $4.25 | $4.61 | $870.00 | $92.0K | 449 | 118 |
| COST | CALL | SWEEP | BULLISH | 12/20/24 | $18.35 | $17.9 | $18.4 | $1000.00 | $82.7K | 248 | 0 |
| COST | CALL | TRADE | NEUTRAL | 01/17/25 | $261.8 | $253.8 | $258.53 | $635.00 | $77.5K | 571 | 0 |
| COST | CALL | SWEEP | BEARISH | 12/20/24 | $52.1 | $51.45 | $51.45 | $900.00 | $72.0K | 214 | 2 |
Costco operates a membership-based, no-frills retail model, predicated on offering a select product assortment in bulk quantities at bargain prices. The firm avoids maintaining costly product displays by keeping inventory on pallets and limits distribution expenses by storing its inventory at point of sale in the warehouse. Given Costco's frugal cost structure, the firm is able to price its merchandise below competing retailers, driving high sales volume per warehouse and allowing the retailer to generate strong profits on thin margins. Costco operates over 600 warehouses in the United States and enjoys over 60% market share in the domestic warehouse club industry. Internationally, Costco operates another 270 warehouses, primarily in markets such as Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the UK.
In the last month, 5 experts released ratings on this stock with an average target price of $881.0.
Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.
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