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Deep-pocketed investors have adopted a bearish approach towards Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), 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 MU usually suggests something big is about to happen.
We gleaned this information from our observations today when Benzinga's options scanner highlighted 31 extraordinary options activities for Micron Technology. This level of activity is out of the ordinary.
The general mood among these heavyweight investors is divided, with 32% leaning bullish and 54% bearish. Among these notable options, 12 are puts, totaling $1,617,440, and 19 are calls, amounting to $1,033,413.
Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $50.0 to $135.0 for Micron Technology over the last 3 months.
In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for Micron Technology options trades today is 2287.48 with a total volume of 6,031.00.
In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for Micron Technology's big money trades within a strike price range of $50.0 to $135.0 over 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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MU | PUT | TRADE | NEUTRAL | 03/21/25 | $2.73 | $2.62 | $2.68 | $60.00 | $428.8K | 51 | 1.6K |
MU | PUT | SWEEP | BULLISH | 09/06/24 | $4.45 | $4.3 | $4.37 | $91.00 | $313.8K | 1.6K | 22 |
MU | PUT | SWEEP | NEUTRAL | 09/13/24 | $3.95 | $3.85 | $3.9 | $89.00 | $280.3K | 243 | 819 |
MU | CALL | SWEEP | BULLISH | 12/20/24 | $38.0 | $37.4 | $37.78 | $50.00 | $188.8K | 30 | 50 |
MU | PUT | TRADE | BULLISH | 09/27/24 | $7.45 | $7.3 | $7.35 | $90.00 | $183.7K | 2.0K | 254 |
Micron is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world, specializing in memory and storage chips. Its primary revenue stream comes from dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, and it also has minority exposure to not-and or NAND, flash chips. Micron serves a global customer base, selling chips into data centers, mobile phones, consumer electronics, and industrial and automotive applications. The firm is vertically integrated.
Following our analysis of the options activities associated with Micron Technology, we pivot to a closer look at the company's own performance.
In the last month, 2 experts released ratings on this stock with an average target price of $157.5.
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