Lands' End Inc (LE)

The most recent short interest data was recently released for the 06/15/2017 settlement date, and Lands' End Inc is one of the most shorted stocks of the Russell 3000, based on 18.98 "days to cover" versus the median component at 4.94. There are a number of ways to look at short data, but one metric that we find particularly useful is the "days to cover" because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares typically traded.

LE, APC, MSL, ATRO and SFLY recently were downgraded by TheStreet's Quant Ratings.

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Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Lands' End Inc , where a total volume of 617 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 61,700 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 73% of LE's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 84,485 shares.

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Investors eyeing a purchase of Lands' End Inc stock, but tentative about paying the going market price of $23.75/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the September put at the $20 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of $1.00.

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The most recent short interest data has been released for the 02/28/2017 settlement date, which shows a 456,889 share decrease in total short interest for Lands' End Inc , to 3,924,087, a decrease of 10.43% since 02/15/2017. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded.