MRC Global Inc (MRC)

A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that MRC Global Inc is the #40 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.

Investors in MRC Global Inc saw new options begin trading today, for the March 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 235 days until expiration the newly trading 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.

The most recent short interest data has been released for the 05/31/2017 settlement date, which shows a 768,264 share increase in total short interest for MRC Global Inc , to 5,141,730, an increase of 17.57% since 05/15/2017. 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.

A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that MRC Global Inc is the #15 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.

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A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that MRC Global Inc is the #42 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.

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The most recent short interest data has been released for the 05/31/2016 settlement date, which shows a 660,015 share increase in total short interest for MRC Global Inc , to 6,910,063, an increase of 10.56% since 05/13/2016. 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.

Investors in MRC Global Inc saw new options become available this week, for the May 20th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the MRC options chain for the new May 20th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest.

Trade-Ideas LLC identified MRC Global (MRC) as a "perilous reversal" (up big yesterday but down big today) candidate

MRC Global (MRC) stock is jumping on Tuesday afternoon following the release of its 2015 fourth quarter earnings after yesterday’s market close.

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Trade-Ideas LLC identified MRC Global (MRC) as a strong on high relative volume candidate

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 01/29/2016 settlement date, which shows a 2,808,965 share decrease in total short interest for MRC Global Inc , to 5,749,648, a decrease of 32.82% since 01/15/2016. 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.

Investors eyeing a purchase of MRC Global Inc shares, but cautious about paying the going market price of $9.70/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 $7.50 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of 60 cents.

In trading on Friday, shares of MRC Global Inc touched a new 52-week low of $10.02/share. That's a $7.60 share price drop, or -43.13% decline from the 52-week high of $17.62 set back on 05/04/2015.