Notable Call Options Activity in St. Jude Medical

Shares of St. Jude Medical

are higher on the session by 4.51%, currently trading at $35.19. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past three months and is currently trading below the 50-day moving average. Options traders are focusing on calls today. The strike seeing the heaviest volume is the January 2012 $35.00 call, which has traded 1,600 times on open interest of 2,605 contracts. Calls are outpacing puts today by 6 to 1. St. Jude Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes cardiovascular medical devices for the global cardiac rhythm management, cardiology and cardiac surgery and atrial fibrillation therapy areas and neurostimulation medical devices for the management of chronic pain.