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Shopify Bulls Pour Millions of Dollars in Call Options After Revenue Beat

Luzi Ann Santos joined discussion · Nov 13 00:41

$Shopify (SHOP.US)$ bulls are pouring millions of dollars in call options after the Canadian e-commerce company reported third quarter financial results that beat estimates and signalled a brighter outlook ahead.

The biggest of those bullish trades involved an active buyer paying a premium of $6.73 million for call options that give the holders the right to buy 306,900 Shopify shares at $92 each in three days. The price of that contract climbed 235% to $19.10 as the stock headed for its highest close since early 2021.

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(To see Shopify's options chain, click here. For the options ranking, click here.)

Shopify shares rose as much as 27% to $114.51 before paring gains to $112.47 at 11:32 a.m. in New York. The rally pushed many of its call options in-the-money, boosting their investment appeal. So far, more than 325,000 options changed hands across 15 expiration dates stretching through Jan. 15, 2027, exchange data tracked by moomoo showed.

That made Shopify the fourth most active stock option, behind $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$, $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ and $Meta Platforms (META.US)$. (To see Nvidia's options chain, click here. For Tesla's options chain, click here. Meta's options chain are found here.)

Demand for the Shopify call options rose after the company reported that its revenue climbed 26% to $2.16 billion in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, exceeding Bloomberg Consensus that called for $2.12 billion. That's the ninth straight quarterly revenue beat for the Ottawa-based company.

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Shopify expects revenue in the fourth quarter to grow at a mid-to-high 20s percentage rate, according to its press release Tuesday morning. Gross profit is seen expanding at a similar pace as the third quarter, it said. Gross profit grew about 24% to $1.118 billion in the three months to Sept. 30.

More than 28,000 call options that give the holders the right to buy the stock at $120 in three days changed hands as of 11:11 a.m. in New York, almost seven times the open interest, exchange data tracked by moomoo showed. Those calls attracted the heaviest trading volume after the stock price climbed more than $21 to $111.27.

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"We have grown free cash flow margin sequentially each quarter this year, consistent with what we delivered last year," Shopify Chief Financial Officer Jeff Hoffmeister. "These results demonstrate the durability of our business, our multiple avenues for growth and continued discipline of balancing both future growth investment and operational leverage."

The company's outlook signals the company could "finish the year strong," surpassing Wall Street expectations for revenue growth and operating margin, after its third quarter results confirmed Shopify's ecommerce leadership, Bloomberg News quoted TD Cowen analysts as saying.

Share your thoughts on Shopify, Nvidia, Tesla and Meta Platforms in the comments section. Can Shopify sustain the stock rally? And if you have a price forecast on the stock, please vote below.

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White_Shadow : depends on how good of a holiday season they have

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Luzi Ann Santos OP : Thanks to everyone who read this story and cast their votes. I erroneously published this only in the Canadian channel, so I had to redo it. If those who voted could recast their vote in the new version, that would be really helpful so we could get the full picture. I'd also love reading your comments so keep them coming. Here's the new version with the updated numbers. Shopify Joins Nvidia, Tesla in Top Options List as Bulls Pour Millions Into Calls

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