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In recent trading, shares of Axovant Sciences Ltd have crossed above the average analyst 12-month target price of $4.60, changing hands for $4.80/share. When a stock reaches the target an analyst has set, the analyst logically has two ways to react: downgrade on valuation, or, re-adjust their target price to a higher level.
Investors in Axovant Sciences Ltd saw new options become available this week, for the June 15th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the AXON options chain for the new June 15th contracts and identified the following call contract of particular interest.
Investors in Axovant Sciences Ltd saw new options become available this week, for the November 16th expiration. One of the key data points that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 228 days until expiration the newly available contracts represent a possible opportunity for sellers of puts or calls to achieve a higher premium than would be available for the contracts with a closer expiration.
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Axovant Sciences Ltd , where a total volume of 10,433 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.0 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 84.2% of AXON's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.2 million shares.
Investors considering a purchase of Axovant Sciences Ltd stock, but cautious about paying the going market price of $5.06/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the May 2018 put at the $5 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of $1.40.
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Axovant shares were up in premarket trading on Sept. 27 after plummeting on Tuesday on the heels of the announcement that the company's Phase 3 study of intepirdine in patients with Alzheimer's disease did not achieve its co-primary efficacy endpoints.
The company said Tuesday its Phase 3 study of intepirdine in patients with Alzheimer's disease did not achieve its co-primary efficacy endpoints.Meanwhile, shares of Genocea Biosciences Inc. were down, after the Cambridge, Mass.-based company announced a shift to immuno-oncology and a focus on developing neoantigen cancer vaccines.
Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero to 100.
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Axovant Sciences Ltd , where a total volume of 43,808 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 4.4 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 624.2% of AXON's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 701,830 shares.