A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that BJ's Restaurants Inc is the #82 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity. To make that list, a stock must have repurchased at least 5% of its outstanding shares over the trailing twelve month period.
In recent trading, shares of BJ's Restaurants Inc have crossed above the average analyst 12-month target price of $42.90, changing hands for $43.70/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 eyeing a purchase of BJ's Restaurants Inc shares, but tentative about paying the going market price of $44.30/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the October put at the $35 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of $1.30.
Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in BJ's Restaurants Inc , where a total of 2,021 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 202,100 underlying shares. That amounts to about 54% of BJRI's average daily trading volume over the past month of 373,945 shares.
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In recent trading, shares of BJ's Restaurants Inc have crossed above the average analyst 12-month target price of $36.60, changing hands for $36.90/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.
In recent trading, shares of BJ's Restaurants Inc have crossed above the average analyst 12-month target price of $33.60, changing hands for $34.65/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 BJ's Restaurants Inc saw new options begin trading this week, for the July 2018 expiration. One of the key inputs that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 241 days until expiration the newly trading contracts represent a potential opportunity for sellers of puts or calls to achieve a higher premium than would be available for the contracts with a closer expiration.
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Investors in BJ's Restaurants Inc saw new options begin trading this week, for the December 15th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the BJRI options chain for the new December 15th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest.
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.