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Deep-pocketed investors have adopted a bearish approach towards Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW), and it's something market players shouldn't ignore. Our tracking of public options records at Benzinga unveiled this significant move today. The identity of these investors remains unknown, but such a substantial move in SNOW usually suggests something big is about to happen.
We gleaned this information from our observations today when Benzinga's options scanner highlighted 30 extraordinary options activities for Snowflake. This level of activity is out of the ordinary.
The general mood among these heavyweight investors is divided, with 40% leaning bullish and 43% bearish. Among these notable options, 16 are puts, totaling $734,930, and 14 are calls, amounting to $606,623.
Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $85.0 to $170.0 for Snowflake over the last 3 months.
In today's trading context, the average open interest for options of Snowflake stands at 1099.0, with a total volume reaching 5,025.00. The accompanying chart delineates the progression of both call and put option volume and open interest for high-value trades in Snowflake, situated within the strike price corridor from $85.0 to $170.0, throughout 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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SNOW | CALL | SWEEP | NEUTRAL | 01/17/25 | $14.2 | $14.0 | $14.2 | $115.00 | $142.0K | 320 | 100 |
SNOW | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 01/17/25 | $12.8 | $12.75 | $12.8 | $115.00 | $103.6K | 2.4K | 175 |
SNOW | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 08/30/24 | $4.9 | $4.85 | $4.9 | $116.00 | $79.3K | 1.7K | 206 |
SNOW | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 01/16/26 | $10.9 | $10.85 | $10.85 | $85.00 | $74.8K | 118 | 69 |
SNOW | CALL | SWEEP | NEUTRAL | 12/18/26 | $20.25 | $19.95 | $20.23 | $170.00 | $60.7K | 109 | 50 |
Founded in 2012, Snowflake is a data lake, warehousing, and sharing company that came public in 2020. To date, the company has over 3,000 customers, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500 as its customers. Snowflake's data lake stores unstructured and semistructured data that can then be used in analytics to create insights stored in its data warehouse. Snowflake's data sharing capability allows enterprises to easily buy and ingest data almost instantaneously compared with a traditionally months-long process. Overall, the company is known for the fact that all of its data solutions that can be hosted on various public clouds.
After a thorough review of the options trading surrounding Snowflake, we move to examine the company in more detail. This includes an assessment of its current market status and performance.
Over the past month, 5 industry analysts have shared their insights on this stock, proposing an average target price of $160.0.
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