Investors considering a purchase of Merck & Co., Inc (NYSE: MRK) shares, but tentative about paying the going market price of $47.51/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 62 cents. Collecting that bid as the premium represents a 2.1% return against the $30 commitment, or a 1.5% annualized rate of ret...
Investors considering a purchase of Merck & Co., Inc (NYSE: MRK) shares, but tentative about paying the going market price of $47.51/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 62 cents. Collecting that bid as the premium represents a 2.1% return against the $30 commitment, or a 1.5% annualized rate of ret...
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