Options Brief: Rowan Companies, Inc. (RDC)

Shares of Rowan Companies, Inc.

are higher on the session by 0.61%, trading at $42.96. Overall call volume is now running at 4.18x the daily average, with 76% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 8,002 contracts have traded on the session so far. Rowan Companies, Inc. is a provider of international and domestic contract drilling services. Rowan also owns and operates a manufacturing division that produces equipment for the drilling, mining and timber industries.