Bulls Pile Into Kulicke & Soffa
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Kulicke & Soffa Industries has some great-looking numbers, and upside option activity gained pace yesterday afternoon.
OptionMonster's tracking systems detected the purchase of 2,100 January 11 calls in two blocks at the same second for $0.30. The volume was above the open interest of 1,797 contracts at the start of the session, so this is fresh buying.
Calls lock in the price where investors can buy shares and can generate some nice leverage if the stock rallies. But these options will expire worthless if it doesn't move.
Kulicke shares rose 2.01 percent to $9.64 yesterday. The company, which makes equipment used to assemble semiconductor devices, has a great-looking balance sheet and cash flows, with valuation levels in the single digits.
Overall calls outnumbered puts by about 3,200 to 400, a reflection of the session's bullish sentiment. Total volume was 4 times greater than average.
—By CNBC Contributor Pete Najarian
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Pete Najarian is a professional investor, CNBC contributor, regular co-host of CNBC's "Fast Money" and co-founder of OptionMonster.com. Najarian has no positions in KLIC.
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