NIKE Inc. (NKE)

Update 12/22/2017: NKE’s earnings eat the Street estimate by 2.3%, coming in at $0.46 per share against the consensus forecast of $0.4372. Shares fell $4.71 in extended hours trading and then recovered by $2.67, falling into a narrow sideways movement. I exited for a loss.

Shares fell by 2.8% over my holding period of less than a day, or a -1,034% annual rate. The options position produced a -10.8% loss for a -3,931% annual rate.

Going into the trade the Zacks earnings surprise predictor shows a 1.21% score in the context of a neutral rank (3), accurately anticipating the actual report.

The trend metrics, however, were less successful. The average directional indicator (ADX) at 43.63 suggested a strong trend, and the directional indicators, with +DI at 29.27 and -DI at 13.55, showed it as an uptrend, missing the decline that actually ensued.

I shall complete this report with the daily movement vs. the expected movements after the number are available.

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NKE publishes earnings on Thursday after the closing bell.

I shall use options that trade for the last time eight days hence, on Dec. 29.

Implied volatility stands at 31%, which is 3.3 times the VIX, a measure of the volatility of the S&P 500 index.

NKE’s IV stands in the 96th percentile of its annual range and at the peak of its most recent broad movement.

The price used for analysis was $64.57.  Given the expectation of a positive earnings surprise and the upward trend, I shall build the trade as a bull vertical spread.

Premium:	$0.58	Expire OTM
NKE-bull put spread	Strike	Odds	Delta
Puts
Long	63.00	76.4%	21
Break-even	61.58	72.8%	25
Short	61.00	61.8%	35

The premium is 58% of the width of the position’s wings. The risk/reward ratio is 2.4:1.

The zone of profit in the proposed trade covers a $3.67 move below the short strike and an infinite distance above it.. The biggest immediate move after each of the past four earnings announcements was $5.83, and the average was $3.12. After eliminating the maximum and minimum post-earnings movements, the central tendency is $3.06.

The expected move covering 85% of occurrences is $3.23, within downside cushion above the strike price.

The bid/ask spread is 12.9%.

Decision for My Account

I have entered a position on NKE as described above. The stock at the time of entry was priced at $64.67.

By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Dec. 21, 2017

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