Notable Call Options Activity in Kansas City Southern

Shares of Kansas City Southern

are lower on the session by 0.24%, currently trading at $65.55. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past three months and is currently trading above the 50-day moving average. Options traders are focusing on calls today. The strike seeing the heaviest volume is the January 2012 $65.00 call, which has traded 1,000 times on open interest of 239 contracts. Calls are outpacing puts today by 100 to 1. Kansas City Southern is a holding company with domestic and international rail operations in North America that are focused on the north/south freight corridor connecting commercial and industrial markets in the central United States with many industrial cities in Mexico.