Options Brief: Health Management Associates (HMA)

Shares of Health Management Associates HMA are higher on the session by 5.97%, trading at $9.68. Overall call volume is now running at 12.19x the daily average, with 13% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,170 contracts have traded on the session so far. Health Management Associates, Inc., along with its subsidiaries, operates general acute care hospitals in non-urban communities. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 55 hospitals with a total of 8,418 beds in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and West Virginia.