Notable Put Options Activity in Synovus Financial
February 29, 2012 3:46 PM
Shares of Synovus Financial (NYSE: SNV) are higher on the session by 1.94%, currently trading at $2.10. 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 puts today. The strike seeing the heaviest action is the April 2012 $2.00 put, which has traded 2,400 times on open interest of 2,306 contracts.
Put volume is outpacing call volume by 7 to 1.
Synovus Financial Corp. is a financial services company and a registered bank holding company. The company provides integrated financial services, including commercial and retail banking, financial management, insurance and mortgage services to its customers through 30 locally branded banking divisions of its wholly owned subsidiary bank, Synovus Bank, and other offices in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee.
