Notable Thursday Option Activity: ABBV, HSY, AVB
July 19, 2018 at 13:43 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in AbbVie Inc (ABBV), where a total volume of 78,614 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 7.9 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 143.7% of ABBV's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 5.5 million shares..