PDD Investors Load Up on Put Options That Could Hedge Against Bigger Stock Slump
Temu parent $PDD Holdings (PDD.US)$ is seeing increasing demand for put options that could protect the shareholders from further declines as its American depositary receipts (ADRs) slumped 30%.
"Revenue growth will inevitably face pressure due to intensified competition and external challenges,” VP of Finance Jun Liu, said in the company's earnings release Monday. “Profitability will also likely be impacted as we continue to invest resolutely.”
That compounded worries for the Shanghai-based e-commerce giant that acknowledged that revenue growth slowed in the second quarter from the previous three months. On Monday, the company reported revenue of 97 billion yuan ($13.36 billion) for the three months that ended June 30. That missed the average estimate of about 100 billion yuan expected by analysts.
More than 525,600 options changed hands in the first half of the trading day, landing PDD in top 3 most traded stock options, just behind market favorite $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ and $Tesla (TSLA.US)$, which have been alternating in first place. (To see the options ranking, click here.)
The most popular PDD contracts were put options giving the holders the right to sell its ADRs at $90 each. Volume reached 52,500 across 17 expiration dates stretching through Jan. 16, 2026. Almost 80% of those put options are expiring in four days. (To see PDD's options chain, click here.)
The price of the $90 puts expiring by Friday climbed 1,140% to $1.25 per ADR, as the stock tumbled near that strike price. Each option covers 100 shares.
Even speculators and institutional investors are piling into put options. Among the unusual activities posted involved a buyer paying a premium of $1.77 million for 9,410 put options that give the holder the right to sell PDD 941,000 ADRs at $99 each by the end of this week. That trade was posted at 9:41:49 a.m. in New York Monday, data tracked by moomoo showed.
(To see unusual options activity, click here.)
As the stock slide, funds are pulling money from the stock. Outflows outpaced inflows by $314.17 million, trimming this month's net inflows to $341.7 million, according to data tracked by moomoo. But the tide could soon be turning, if technical indicators proved to be right. Ten of the 15 gauges seen on the moomoo app are flashing positive signals that the shares could now be oversold, and the trend may turn bullish.
Do you expect PDD to keep sliding, or will the ADRs rebound? Share your thoughts below and if you have a price forecast, please vote below.
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