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AT& T - Buy At $37-$37.50Per Seeking Alpha/ 7/3/17 Summary This weekend two major moves by the company suggest that the merger is a done deal. We discuss the management changes and the major debt taken on. A discussion of earnings shows strong expense management and rising expectations for the future. AT&T (NYSE:T) has just made two major moves this weekend that you need to be aware of as it prepares for a merger with Time Warner (TWX). First it is shaking up management. Second, it is finalizing this year's largest corporate bond sale. Both of these moves suggest that this merger is a done deal and the government's blessing at this point is just a formality. With these types of moves, especially the financing move, you can rest assured management knows it is in the clear on this deal. Although I have always said we need to analyze the company and future expectations under the assumption that the deal would not close, having this vote of confidence that the deal will close is bullish in my opinion. Let us discuss these two moves. First, management is being moved around to prepare for the on boarding of Time Warner under the AT&T umbrella. Effective tomorrow (August 1) Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson announced three major executive changes. First, Lori Lee who is Global Marketing officer will take over leadership of AT&T International. This move is important as international sales are an ever growing source of revenues for the company. In addition, Ms. Lee was the lead of the merger planning team. The second move is the appointment of John Stankey to take on the lead of the Time Warner integration team, and in this role he will work with Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes to plan for a transition of Mr. Bewkes to assume lead of AT&T's new media company post-merger. Finally, John Donovan, who was Chief Strategy Officer of AT&T Technology and Operations, will become CEO of the new AT&T Communications segment, which is comprised of AT&T's Business Solutions, Entertainment Group, and Technology group. Second, we learned this weekend that AT&T is now seeking financing presumably to pay for this merger. This is a serious on-boarding of new debt. While the merger is costing in the ballpark of $85 billion, AT&T is looking to raise $22.5 billion through a seven-tier bond offering according to a Financial Times Piece. Evidently investors had piled in orders to the tune of $63 billion to get in on the bond offering. According to the article: "the sale was to include notes with maturities ranging between 5.5 and 41 years, with yields on new 10-year debt set to price 160 basis points above benchmark Treasuries". This is a serious amount of cash being raised for an already debt laden company.
NYSE:TLong
by Anbat
Covered Straddle on TT stock has earnings July 25 after the bell and the current implied volatility is inflated. Can current stock owners profit from selling premium before earnings? What if the investor is willing to acquire more shares if the stock falls to the put strike and willing to sell shares held if the stock price rises to the call strike? Last price of of 36.52 Implied Volatility is 20.9 28 Days to Aug 18 Expiry 1 Standard Deviation range 34.4 - 38.64 which implies an expected range of +/- 5.79% by expiry. The current stock price is right in between the straddle strikes so you'd need to choose depending on if you're bullish or bearish on the stock currently. The 37 straddle credit is $1.57 or 4.3% of last price for break even at 35.43 and 38.57. The 36 straddle credit is $1.63 or 4.46% of last price for break even at 34.37 and 37.63. An advantage to selling the straddle is right now the $37 strike volume is higher and more liquid. A disadvantage to selling the straddle is the narrower breakevens and lower probability that the stock price is between the breakevens by expiry (about 50%). The straddle can however be managed early at 25% of the initial credit for a higher probability of success. The 34-39 strangle (about 12 delta) gives a credit of 25c (a paltry 0.68% of last price) for breakevens of 33.75 and 39.25. This is outside the range of the expected move. The 35-38 strangle (about 22 delta) gives a credit of 53c (1.45% on the a T price of 36.52) for breakevens of 34.75 and 38.53. This is just inside the range of the expected move. The 20 delta strangle credit would yield an annual rate of 12%+ if sold 8 times a year. An advantage to selling the strangle is the wider breakevens and higher probability of success that the stock price is between strikes by expiry and the investor keeps the whole credit. More info on the covered straddle strategy: www.fidelity.com
NYSE:T
by dime
ATTSo I have notice whether the estimates were made,missed, or spot on the stock price seems to move on its own. I did by the stock because of the low price on bad news, i believe over reaction by the big players. Over the last 5 days the stock has had a sell off @ 10:00 am. No doubt the big boys selling off. I have also seen buying in smaller lots. Lastly the 4:30 hour 2.3 million shares were purchased just prior to the real close of the market. moving the price from 36.20 to 37.35. I figured that the stock should not get much lower and, up to this point, lucked out and got a low price. I'm trying to expand my abilities technically evaluating charts. I don't use puts, call i understand them by definition but not well enough to bet on them. I make about 7-10 / trade but must learn more to earn more....no i cant afford a class. So teach me how to read this chart.
NYSE:T
by tyy
AT&T Acquisition Of Time Warner Later 2017In the world of media, bigger remains better. So in the wake of Comcast’s $30 billion takeover of NBCUniversal and Verizon Communications’ serial acquisitions of the Huffington Post and Yahoo, AT&T has bought one of the remaining crown jewels of the entertainment industry. The telecommunications giant agreed on Saturday to buy Time Warner, the home of HBO and CNN, for about $85.4 billion, creating a new colossus capable of both producing content and distributing it to millions with wireless phones, broadband subscriptions and satellite TV connections. *On schedule to happen later this year. Nice buying opportunity at $36.00 with this stock, which should happen before next earning report later July. When you look left that area is a major support area too.
NYSE:TLong
by Anbat
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T is showing clear continuation and very high probability targetVery nice "b" shape in the volume profile of the current decline. Acceptance at lower prices = continuation. If initiative move has already begun, a symmetry move is perfectly lined up with previous VERY high volume VPOC at 34.64. So Short from a break down off the lower edge of Value into 34.64 with a stop behind the current VPOC. Short bet is that initiative move has begun and should not look back at all, or if it does, the VPOC fair price should reject the price advertisement lower. And then Long form 34.64 with volume node structure stop betting on non-acceptance into the next small high vol node. Long bet is that fair price pension funds come back in and push things higher. No real tight place to put a stop except way behind VA Low, but I don't want to see acceptance of price back into the major value area like that. I'll bet from the VPOC at 34.64, but if I understand AMT correctly, either T finds buyers there, or it doesn't. Acceptance back into previous value is no good, and actually indicates even lower prices, perhaps into the 20's. So just a small minus development to reject prices on the stop and that's it. I do NOT want to see any acceptance.
NYSE:TShort
by cpuzz1707