Investors eyeing a purchase of MetLife Inc (NYSE: MET) shares, but tentative about paying the going market price of $45.07/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the January 2015 put at the $30 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of $2.02. Collecting that bid as the premium represents a 6.7% return against the $30 commitment, or a 4.1% annualized rate of return (at Stock...
Investors eyeing a purchase of MetLife Inc (NYSE: MET) shares, but tentative about paying the going market price of $45.07/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the January 2015 put at the $30 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of $2.02. Collecting that bid as the premium represents a 6.7% return against the $30 commitment, or a 4.1% annualized rate of return (at Stock...
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