China – Hot, Cold or Lukewarm – Covered Calls

In recent articles, we’ve examined several of the world economies. In this article, we will examine the economy of China. China is the world’s fourth largest economy after the United States, Japan and Germany. China’s economy has grown phenomenally at a rate of over 10% over the last four years. China is the most populous nation on earth with 1/5 of the world’s population.

China is one of the oldest civilizations on earth with one of the longest historical records. The last Chinese dynasty ended in 1912 with the birth of the Republic of China. During the period of the Republic of China’s reign, China was in frequent political turmoil and civil war until the Communist Party of China gained control of mainland China in 1949 from the Republic of China. As a result of being displaced, The Republic of China retreated to the island of Taiwan.

While mainland China’s economy has grown substantially over the last few years, the economic prosperity has not had a positive impact for the majority of the Chinese population. Recently, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced China is planning to overhaul the Chinese financial structure in order to support China’s continued growth. Mr. Wen indicated China is planning to forge ahead with market-oriented reforms and stipulated China is intent on improving education and healthcare for its people.

The Shanghai stock market took a dramatic drop at the end of February and subsequently roiled the financial markets of the entire world. Investors planning to invest in Chinese companies should tread carefully, as the high flying Chinese economy could see some bumpy times ahead with changes to mainland China’s financial market structure. While the structure of Chinese financial markets needs to be modified for continued growth, the resulting volatility from the changes could be very high.

Some Chinese companies with optionable stocks are shown below.

The covered calls stock options investment strategy allows investors to manage market volatility, as in the case of China, and tailor investments for various risk/reward profiles. Using PowerOptions stock options search tools, we discovered the following covered calls stock options positions for Chinese companies.

For this search, the parameters were set to only find out-of-the-money covered calls stock options positions. The search returned a large number of covered calls positions with potential % if unchanged returns ranging from 2.3% to 7.1% and % if assigned potential returns ranging from 4.6% to 15.9%. Out-of-the-money positions require the price of the stock to increase to the strike price of the option or greater in order to realize the return.

The downside protection for the positions found ranges from 2.3% to 6.6%. As long as a position’s stock price does not decline more than the downside protection at stock options expiration, the position will be profitable.

Competitors:
Competitors for AOB include: China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation (private), China Shineway Pharmaceutical Group Limited (private), and CK Life Sciences Int’l., (Holdings) Inc (private).
Competitors for ASIA include: Amdocs Ltd. (DOX), Digital China Holdings Limited (private), and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (private).
Competitors for BIDU include: Sina Corp. (SINA), Sohu.com Inc. (SOHU), and TOM Online Inc. (TOMO).
Competitors for CN include: China Mobile Limited (CHL), China Unicom Ltd. (CHU), China Telecommunications Corporation (private), and China Telecom Corp. Ltd. (CHA).
Competitors for CHL include: China Unicom Ltd. (CHU), China Telecommunications

Corporation (private), China Netcom Group Corp. (Hong Kong) Ltd. (CN), and Hutchison Telecom. Intl. Ltd. (HTX).
Competitors for CHU include: China Mobile Communications Corporation (private), China Netcom (Group) Company Limited (private), China Telecommunications Corporation (private), China Telecom Corp. Ltd. (CHA), China Telecom Limited ADR (CHL), China Netcom Group Corp. (Hong Kong) Ltd. (CN), and Hutchison Telecom. Intl. Ltd. (HTX).
Competitors for COGO include: Arrow Electronics Inc. (ARW), Avanex Corp. (AVNX), and Avnet Inc. (AVT).
Competitors for CTRP include: eLong Inc. (LONG), Expedia Inc. (EXPE), and Hotels.com, L.P. (private).
Competitors for FMCN include: Clear Media Limited (private), JCDecaux S.A. (private), and TOM Group Limited (private).
Competitors for HMIN include: Accor (private), Days Inns Worldwide, Inc. (private), and Super 8 Motels, Inc. (private).
Competitors for MR include: Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Bayer HealthCare AG (private), and GE Healthcare (private).
Competitors for EDU include: Princeton Review Inc. (REVU), and Kaplan, Inc. (private).
Competitors for XING include: Nokia Corp. (NOK), and TCL Corporation (private).
Competitors for SNDA include: Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS), TOM Online Inc. (TOMO), Sony Online Entertainment, Inc. (private), GigaMedia Ltd. (GIGM), and The9 Ltd. (NCTY).
Competitors for SINA include: Netease.com Inc. (NTES), Sohu.com Inc. (SOHU), Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), Baidu.com Inc. (BIDU), KongZhong Corp. (KONG), The9 Ltd. (NCTY), and Tom Online Inc. (TOMO).
Competitors for NCTY include: Netease.com Inc. (NTES), Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. (SNDA), and Sina Corp. (SINA).
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