SII MONOLINES: HEAVY PUT BUYING IN MBIA AMID RECENT NEGATIVE COMMENTARY ON PUERTO RICAN DEBT

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-- SOURCE: 10-18-17  StreetInsider.com --  Heavy Put Buying Continues in MBIA (MBI) Amid Recent Negative Commentary on Puerto Rican Debt from President Trump -Susquehanna

Susquehanna options strategist Alison Edwards noted continued bearish options flow in MBIA (NYSE: MBI), as an opening investor bought 17k May 5 Puts for $0.67, while other traders are long roughly 15k Jan 6p, 30k Jan 7p, 28k Feb 9 puts, 25k May 7p, and 10k May 8p over the last few weeks.

-- SOURCE; 10-18-17 TheRiponAdvance.Com  - "Stocks to Keep An Eye On!" --

MBIA Inc. (MBI) ended its last session at $7.1 by Surging 1.28%. The company currently has an average volume of 2.94 Million. MBIA Inc. has its outstanding Shares of 126.56 Million.

Market capitalization is the total market value of all of a company’s outstanding shares. Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying a company’s shares outstanding by the current market price of one share. The investment community uses this figure to determine a company’s size, as opposed to sales or total asset figures. MBIA Inc. (MBI) has the market capitalization of 898.58 Million.

The (Simple Month Average) SMA20 is at -14.58 percent, its SMA50 Value is -24.55% and SMA200 value is reported as -24.56 Percent. The stock is currently showing its Return on Assets (ROA) value of -14.1 Percent. The Return on Equity (ROE) and Return on Investment values are -51 percent and -1.3 percent respectively.

MBIA Inc. (MBI) has an annual dividend of $0, while its annual dividend yield is 0%. A dividend is a distribution of a portion of a company’s earnings decided by its BOD (board of directors) specifically for its shareholders. Dividends are mostly given in terms of cash payments, property or as shares of stock.

If we look at the Volatility of the company, Week Volatility is 5.51%, whereas Month Volatility is at 5.46%. The ATR (Average True Range) value is 0.4.

Year to date (YTD) refers to the period beginning the first day of the current calendar or fiscal year up to the current date. YTD information is useful for analyzing business trends or comparing performance data, and the acronym often modifies concepts such as investment returns, earnings and net pay. Year to Date (YTD) performance of MBIA Inc. (MBI) is -33.64 percent while its Performance (Week) is -0.42 percent and Performance (month) is at -27.92 percent.

Price Target Analysis:

Price targets show what analysts believes a stock will be worth at the end of a certain time period. Price Target plays a critical role when it comes to the analysis of a Stock. Analysts on average have given a price target of $12.69 to MBIA Inc. stock. (According to data compiled by finviz)

Analyst Recommendations:

Analyst Recommendations are opinions given by analysts to their clients about whether a given stock is worth buying or not.

According to the Recommendation Trends of the stock polled by Finviz, the company has a consensus recommendation of 2.3 out of the scale from 1 to 5, where 1 stands for Buy and 5 means Sell.

Earnings Estimate Analysis:

The Average Earnings Estimate for the Current Fiscal quarter is $0.11 per share, according to consensus of 3 analysts. The lower end of the projection is $0.02 per share, while the higher end is $0.2 per share.

Revenue Estimates:

Now when we talk about Revenue Estimate for the current Fiscal Quarter, Average Revenue Estimate of the stock is projected as $51.1 Million where Low Revenue estimate and High Revenue Estimates are $51.1 Million and $51.1 Million respectively by 1 analysts.

--SOURCE:  10-18-17 PostAnalysis.com  "HAVE STOCK GURUS NOW TURNED SOUR ON MBIA INC. (MBI)" --

MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI) popped in on a high volume green day. Volume on 17-Oct-17 came in at 5.34 million contracts. The daily trading volume has averaged 2.9 million shares a day in past 3 months. The first sale was made at $6.84 but later the stock became weaker, and closed with a gain of 2.64%. It was last traded at $7.01 apiece.

MBIA Inc. (MBI): Outperform Candidate With 81.03% Upside Potential

MBIA Inc. is maintained at an average outperform rating by 4 stock analysts, and there are at least 14.18% of shares outstanding that are currently legally short sold. The shares went down by -30.04% in value last month. Year-to-date it plunged -34.49%. Analysts are turning out to be more optimistic than before, with 2 of analysts who cover MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI) advice adding it to buy candidate list. Wall Street experts also assign a $12.69 price target on MBIA Inc., pointing towards a 81.03% rally from current levels. The stock is trading for about -39.83% less than its 52-week high.

MBIA Inc. Reports 4.18% Sales Growth

MBIA Inc. (MBI) remained successful in beating the consensus-estimated -$1.4 as it actually earned -$1.11 per share in its last reported financial results. Revenue, on the other hand, scored 4.18% growth from the previous quarter, coming up with $51.05 million.

MBI Retreats -6.53% In A Week

This company shares (MBI) so far managed to recover 5.97% since collapsing to its 52-week low. Over a month, it has seen its stock price volatility to stay at 6.15% while shortening the period to a week, volatility was 5.48%. The share price has yet to cross its 20 days moving average, floating at a distance of -17.08% and sits -25.96% lower versus its 50 days moving average. When looking at the past five sessions, the stock returned -6.53% losses and is down by -25.66% compared with its 200-day moving average of $9.14. Also, MBIA Inc. (MBI) needs to overturn a -10.47% decrease it experienced over the past twelve months.