Investors eyeing a purchase of Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) stock, but tentative about paying the going market price of $44.49/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 $1.84. Collecting that bid as the premium represents a 6.1% return against the $30 commitment, or a 3.8% annualized rate of retu...
Investors eyeing a purchase of Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) stock, but tentative about paying the going market price of $44.49/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 $1.84. Collecting that bid as the premium represents a 6.1% return against the $30 commitment, or a 3.8% annualized rate of retu...
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