For subscribers to the Get Rich Monthly Income Plan, the monthly covered call trades all provided positive income from the selling of call option. One of the better trades was FedEx (FDR) as the setup is shown below. The covered call trade used a strike price of 120 as the stock closed well above this price on 10/18. The trade provided a one month gain of 3.9% for covered call traders.
Covered Call on FedEx (FDX)
STRATEGY: Look at the Oct 120 covered call. For each 100 shares of FDX stock you buy, sell one Oct 120 covered call option for a $114.53 (116.83 – 1.30) debit or better. That’s potentially a 3.87% assigned return.
TREND: The technicals for FDX are bullish with a strong upward trend. The stock has support at $107 and is above resistance. The company reported earnings today, Wednesday, September 18. S&P rates this stock 4 STARS (out of five) – buy.
BLANKET PUT: As a protective option to the covered call, you can buy the Jan 2013 110 Put for $3.20 to limit your stock downside to $110.00 per share. This put is not required for the covered call trade but serves as additional protection for those seeking to limit downside. You should sell the put when you exit the covered call position.
RESEARCH NOTES: S&P maintains buy opinion on shares of Federal Express (FDX). We keep our FY 14 and FY 15 EPS estimates at $7.04 and $8.66. We raise our 12-month target price by $10 to $127, 18X our FY 14 estimate and towards the middle of its 10-year historical range of 9X-34X reported EPS. Q1 EPS of $1.53, vs. $1.45, is $0.02 below our estimate but $0.03 better than the Capital IQ consensus. FDX reaffirms FY 14 guidance of EPS growth of 7%-13%. We expect FDX to benefit from an improving global economy and its ongoing restructuring plan, and anticipate continued investor rotation into logistics stocks on good economic news.