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Trading Update for Estee Lauder Cos. (EL)
Posted on 03/05/2010

Estee Lauder Cos. options saw high put activity today. A total of 2,478 put and 213 call contracts were traded raising a high Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 11.63. There were 11.63 puts traded for each call contract.

A significant increase in the trading volume of a stock's option often is a precursor of movement by the underlying stock. In such instances, Put/Call Ratio can be used as an investor sentiment indicator, where a high ratio implies that the overall investor sentiment is bearish and a low Put/Call ratio implies that the overall sentiment is bullish.

Estee Lauder Cos. (EL) closed at $61.08 in the last trading session and opened today at $61.43. EL is trading at $61.71, up $0.63 (+1.03%) in today's trading session. The daily low is $60.37 and the high is $61.95. The trading volume of 1,168,733 is below the average volume of 1,997,110 shares. EL is trading above the 50 day moving average and higher than the 200 day moving average. The stock's 52 week low is $19.81 and 52 week high is $62.23. The stock has a P/E ratio of 29.82 and a dividend yield of 0.90%.

Sasha Gelf
Options Analytics Group
sasha.gelf@marketintellisearch.com