In the James Bond movie From Russia with Love a Soviet defector plans to sell the evil SPECTRE organization a decoder device allowing them to acquire Russian state secrets and the ability to destabilize the world order. But in the end James Bond prevails and the world is saved from catastrophe.
After the collapse of the iron curtain and the breakup of the Soviet Union, the world order truly was destabilized with the Russian economy left in shambles. But the Russian economy is starting to gain some traction as denoted in a recent Wall Street Journal article (online.wsj.com).
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It’s been rough going for Vladimir Putin since his election in 2000 as the President of Russia, but his approval rating is very high (70%) and the people of Russia are starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
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Some Russian companies with optionable stocks are shown below.
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With the Russian economy on the mends, Russian companies are looking bullish. Using PowerOptions stock options search tools we discovered the following covered calls stock options for Russian companies:
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| MBT | 50.38 (-0.77) | MBTDK | 07 APR 55.0 (40) | 1.2 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 11.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MBT | 50.38 (-0.77) | MBTDJ | 07 APR 50.0 (40) | 3.1 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 5.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| VIP | 87.07 (-0.77) | VIQDQ | 07 APR 85.0 (40) | 6 | 6.9 | 4.8 | 4.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| VIP | 87.07 (-0.77) | VIQDR | 07 APR 90.0 (40) | 3.5 | 4 | 4.2 | 7.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MBT and VIP provide wireless telecommunication services in Russia, and the stock prices of both companies have been on an uptrend for several years.
The first VIP and second MBT covered calls positions in the list above are in-the-money with potential returns of 4.8% and 5.8% (40 days) respectively and downside protection in the neighborhood of 6%.
The first MBT and second VIP covered calls positions are out-of-the-money with % if unchanged returns of 2.4% and 4.2%, respectively, and with downside protection of 2.4% and 4%, respectively. The % if assigned potential returns for MBT and VIP are 11.8 and 7.7, respectively, and require the price of the stock to increase to or above the strike price of the call option.
Competitors:
Competitors for MBT include: Vimpel-Communications (VIP), and Tele2 AB (private).
Competitors for VIP include: Golden Telecom Inc. (GLDN), Mobile Telesystems OJSC (MBT), and Rostelecom OAO (ROS).
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