Posted on 05/17/2016 11:15:55 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
Target Corp. (TGT) recalled about 2,600 Hanukkah menorahs sold from October 2015 through December 2015 for about $20 , because of a fire hazard, according to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission . The clear acrylic menorahs, in a pyramid design and 10.5 inches long, can melt when the candles are burning, posing a fire hazard, the CPSC said. Target has received eight reports of melting, including three reports of fire, but no property damage or injuries. Target shares shed 1.9% in afternoon trade, and have edged up 0.8% year to date.
Target has a fire problem with the Almighty allright...just saying
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And: It's the 2nd half of May! What relevance do menaorahs have now?
They need to recall men from watching little girls in the toilet room.
Next Target recall: Mohammedan scimitars that accidentally could behead infidels.
“Are menorahs supposed to have fire?”
Absolutely!
The Menorah Safety Administration (MSA) required approximately ten months to study the safety concerns and issued a comprehensive report at a cost of $479,000.
Yes and the CEO has doubled down on that policy, got into his pride now and won’t back off Target stock down 1.36 to 73.25 was around 82 when all this started. Don’t know if it is the bathroom policy but would like to think so
Plastic can easily catch fire. Wow, who’da thunk?!?
My first thought.
What Einstein thought they should mix candles with plastic? Better yet, why did Target order them?
Disordered thinking prevails, and common sense is in short supply.
“It’s the 2nd half of May! What relevance do menaorahs have now? “
The litigants are just now getting court dates set.
In other good news, Target stock went from $83.50 on April 19 (when it announced its stupid toilet policy) to $73.33 in trading earlier today (5/17/16)!
$10 drop in less than a month!
Let’s go JC Penney on ‘em!
Buy put to open
04/27/2016 TGT 07152016 P 82.5 5.00 qty @ 2.70 Executed
Now worth: 8.3 x 9.75 (about $9 taking the midpoint)
They report tomorrow, before the bell.
I’m thinking of producing a line of fireproof menorahs.
Can you translate that for me?
Sure. To benefit (eg; profit) from the drop in a stock one could or would do what?
Short the stock. SELL it first, then buy it at a cheaper price at a later time. It is exactly the same as “buy low, sell high” EXCEPT the “sell” comes before the “buy”.
Shorting stock has two certain peculiarities I won’t go into, but they do not work in your favor, and they can dangerous. And when you are underwater on a short it has an entirely different feel than being underwater on a buy, and it takes some degree of trading “maturity” to be able to handle the stomach butterflys that result.
But in the options market, one can buy a derivative known as a “put”, the contrary item to a “call”. Puts are very very counterintuitive for those unfamiliar. But because I BUY them, I am “long” and do not have those two dangers that shorting stock bears. I can lose my whole bet, for sure. If TGT rockets to 100 tomorrow on blowout earnings, the value of those puts would drop to maybe 25 CENTS, or $25, and it would happen before the bell so I wouldn’t be able to get to them in any way to prevent the loss. That would be over a 90% loss, kablam, right now. The options market opens AFTER the stk mkt, there is no “premarket” trading in (listed, which this is) options.
You buy a put when you buy homeowners insurance. You pay $1000 for your policy and should your $100K house burn down, your insurance company will pay you let’s say $75K for the smoldering ruin on your land. (that is one incomplete but not-inaccurate way to look at it) The ins co SELLS you the put.
Now, I anticipated a drop in TGTs price well before this current brouhaha, just as a matter of charting the stock. If you look at a chart, TGT has topped out right at 84 multiple times and can’t seem to go higher. So, my bet was that it would do so again. That the entire retail sector has been bludgeoned has helped, and that this controversy has erupted has, I assume, helped.
So I bought a put giving me the right to sell the stock for 82.5 up through ~~July 20. It cost me $2.70 or $270. and I bot 5 of them for $1300. I sold 2 of them for about 4.8 ($480) each and have 3 of them left. With the decline in price of the stock, those remaining puts have more than tripled, to about $9, or $900 each. Good trade.
They have no problem recalling menorahs, but they can’t recall their ill-conceived bathroom policy.
Bookmarked.
Thanks.
Those $2.70 puts are now worth $14. TGT down another $5 on earnings. That’s getting there!
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