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Trading Update for Peet's Coffee & Tea (PEET)
Posted on 03/03/2010
 PEET options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 76 put and 1,243 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.06. There were 16.36 calls traded for each put contract.
Put/Call ratio can be regarded as a predictor of investment sentiment,
indicating what experienced investors are doing in preparation for a move of an underlying equity.
A high Put/Call ratio suggests that the investor sentiment is bearish and that investors are
expecting the underlying stock price to decrease. Conversely, a low Put/Call ratio implies
that the investor sentiment is bullish and that investors are expecting the underlying
stock price to increase. Thus, unusual volume provides reliable clues that the stock is
expected to make a move.
Peet's Coffee & Tea (PEET) closed at $38.07 in the last trading session and opened today at $38.09. PEET is
trading at $38.05, down $0.02 (-0.05%) in today's trading session. The daily
low is $37.51 and the high is $38.68. The trading volume of 342,340 is above the
average volume of 176,520 shares. PEET is trading above the 50 day moving
average and higher than the 200 day moving average.
The technical momentum Relative Strengh Index indicator shows overbought conditions.
Peet's Coffee & Tea has earnings per share of $1.44.
The stock's 52 week low is $19.29 and 52 week high is $42.20.
Sasha Gelf
Options Analytics Group
sasha.gelf@marketintellisearch.com
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