Behind the scenes of the latest Yum China Holdings options trends – Yum China Holdings (NYSE:YUMC)

Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bullish stance Yum China Holdings YUMC.

And retail traders should know this.

We saw this today as positions appeared in the publicly available options history we track at Benzinga.

We don’t know whether they are institutions or just wealthy people. But when something this big happens at YUMC, it often means someone knows something is about to happen.

Today, Benzinga’s options scanner detected 16 options trades Yum China Holdings.

This is not normal.

The overall sentiment of these big-money investors is split between 68% bullish and 6% bearish.

Of all the options we discovered, there was 1 put for a total of $47,430 and 15 calls for a total of $2,517,328.

Expected price movements

Trading activity shows that significant investors have been heading towards the Yum China Holdings price area ranging from $32.50 to $47.50 over the past three months.

Volume and open interest trends

Studying volume and open interest provides key insight into stock research. This information is crucial in assessing the liquidity and interest rate of Yum China Holdings options at specific strike prices. Below is a snapshot of the volume and number of open call and put volume trends in Yum China Holdings’ top trades, within the strike price range of $32.50 to $47.50, over the past month.

Yum China Holdings 30-Day Option Volume and Interest Snapshot

Largest option trades observed:

Symbol	SEND/CALL	Trade type	Sentiment	To the power. Date	Ask	Offer	Price	Strike price	Total trading price	Open interest	Volume
YUMC	CALL	TRADE	BULLISH	15/11/24	$2.75	$1.80	$2.75	$45.00	825.0 thousand dollars	107	3.0 thousand
YUMC	CALL	TRADE	NEUTRAL	17/04/25	$5.20	$3.1	$4.0	$45.00	800.0 thousand dollars	53	2
YUMC	CALL	SWEEP	BULLISH	18/10/24	$5.1	$3.60	$5.1	$40.00	279.0 thousand dollars	3.2 thousand	620
YUMC	CALL	SWEEP	BULLISH	18/10/24	$5.1	$4.0	$5.1	$40.00	119.3 thousand dollars	3.2 thousand	854
YUMC	CALL	TRADE	BULLISH	17/01/25	$3.9	$2.70	$3.9	$45.00	97.5 thousand dollars	431	254

About Yum China Holdings companies

With nearly 13,000 locations and $10 billion in system-wide sales in 2022, Yum China is the largest restaurant chain in China. Generates revenue through its own restaurants and franchise fees. Key concepts include KFC (9,094 locations) and Pizza Hut (2,903), but the company’s portfolio also includes other brands such as Little Sheep, East Dawning, Taco Bell, Huang Ji Huang, COFFii & Joy and Lavazza (collectively representing approximately 950 premises). Yum China is a licensee of the Yum Brands trademark and pays 3% of total system-wide sales to the company from which it separated in October 2016.

After examining the options trading patterns of Yum China Holdings, our attention now turns directly to the company. This change allows us to delve deeper into the company’s current market position and performance

What is Yum China Holdings’ current position?

• The trading volume is 11,803,635 and the YUMC price increased by 14.32% and stands at USD 43.66.
• RSI indicators indicate that the stock may be overbought.
• Results announcement expected in 33 days.

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