MSCI's Options Frenzy: What You Need to Know

Deep-pocketed investors have adopted a bullish approach towards MSCI MSCI, 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 MSCI usually suggests something big is about to happen.

We gleaned this information from our observations today when Benzinga's options scanner highlighted 16 extraordinary options activities for MSCI. This level of activity is out of the ordinary.

The general mood among these heavyweight investors is divided, with 50% leaning bullish and 43% bearish. Among these notable options, 12 are puts, totaling $462,147, and 4 are calls, amounting to $128,720.

Predicted Price Range

After evaluating the trading volumes and Open Interest, it's evident that the major market movers are focusing on a price band between $420.0 and $480.0 for MSCI, spanning the last three months.

Volume & Open Interest Development

Looking at the volume and open interest is a powerful move while trading options. This data can help you track the liquidity and interest for MSCI's options for a given strike price. Below, we can observe the evolution of the volume and open interest of calls and puts, respectively, for all of MSCI's whale trades within a strike price range from $420.0 to $480.0 in the last 30 days.

MSCI Option Volume And Open Interest Over Last 30 Days

Significant Options Trades Detected:

About MSCI

MSCI has described its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. In addition, it boasts over $1.4 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI's all other segment was broken out into ESG and climate and private assets segments in 2021. In ESG and climate, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In private assets, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.

Following our analysis of the options activities associated with MSCI, we pivot to a closer look at the company's own performance.

Present Market Standing of MSCI

• Trading volume stands at 1,233,041, with MSCI's price up by 0.41%, positioned at $466.57.
• RSI indicators show the stock to be may be oversold.
• Earnings announcement expected in 89 days.

Professional Analyst Ratings for MSCI

Over the past month, 5 industry analysts have shared their insights on this stock, proposing an average target price of $571.0.

• Consistent in their evaluation, an analyst from UBS keeps a Buy rating on MSCI with a target price of $575.
• Reflecting concerns, an analyst from RBC Capital lowers its rating to Outperform with a new price target of $638.
• An analyst from Deutsche Bank upgraded its action to Buy with a price target of $569.
• An analyst from B of A Securities has decided to maintain their Underperform rating on MSCI, which currently sits at a price target of $425.
• Consistent in their evaluation, an analyst from Oppenheimer keeps a Outperform rating on MSCI with a target price of $648.

Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.

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