Looking At Alphabet's Recent Unusual Options Activity

A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Alphabet.

Looking at options history for Alphabet GOOGL we detected 23 strange trades.

If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 26% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 73% with bearish.

From the overall spotted trades, 5 are puts, for a total amount of $226,349 and 18, calls, for a total amount of $1,089,393.

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What's The Price Target?

Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $90.0 to $100.0 for Alphabet over the last 3 months.

Volume & Open Interest Development

In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for Alphabet options trades today is 14243.07 with a total volume of 52,920.00.

In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for Alphabet's big money trades within a strike price range of $90.0 to $100.0 over the last 30 days.

Alphabet Option Volume And Open Interest Over Last 30 Days

Biggest Options Spotted:

Where Is Alphabet Standing Right Now?

• With a volume of 6,092,680, the price of GOOGL is up 1.31% at $95.09.
• RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock is currently neutral between overbought and oversold.
• Next earnings are expected to be released in 48 days.

What The Experts Say On Alphabet:

• Jefferies downgraded its action to Buy with a price target of $130
• Loop Capital has decided to maintain their Buy rating on Alphabet, which currently sits at a price target of $125.
• Needham downgraded its action to Buy with a price target of $115

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