NEW YORK (AVAFIN) -- Block trades offer useful, insightful data used by both large and small investors to
determine if their stock trade will be profitable. By the end of today's trading
session, financial institutions exchanged 79 block trades. A total of
950,313 shares were bought and 682,207 shares were sold
forming a bought/sold ratio of 1.39 for Alpha Natural Resources.
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A deeper look into options trading also reveals that traders hedged their positions with options
where 7,353 put and 31,203 call contracts exchanged hands leading to a 0.24
put/call ratio.
Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. is a supplier and exporter of metallurgical coal for use in the steel-making process and a major supplier of thermal coal to electric utilities and manufacturing industries across the country.
Shares of Alpha Natural Resources edged up $0.02 (+0.21%) to $9.50. The price of the stock ranged
between a low of $9.32 and $9.81 respectively. The trading volume of 21M is above
the 90 day average volume of 15M shares. ANR is trading above the 50
day moving average. The stock's 52 week low is $5.28 and 52 week high is $20.70. Within the last quarter, the shares have gained 30.40% of their value.
