Notable Thursday Option Activity: UNH, PAYC, PM
September 19, 2019 at 15:22 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in UnitedHealth Group Inc (UNH), where a total volume of 16,831 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.7 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 43.4% of UNH's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 3.9 million shares..