Option update: Sybase(SY) volatility Up on Activist investor & industry consolidation

Posted Oct 12th 2007 11:15AM by Paul Foster
Filed under: Oracle Corp (ORCL), Options

Sybase(NYSE;SY), a global enterprise software company with June 2007 total quarterly revenue of $1 billion, is recently up 42 cents to $24.88. SY has a market cap of $17.6 billion. SY is expected to announce EPS on 10/25. According to Dow Jones, Sandell Asset Management, an owner of 6% of SY, wants SY to repurchase shares or look at selling the company. SAP AG (NYSE:SAP), recently announced a $6.8 billion takeover of Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJ) and Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) proposed taking over BEA Systems (NASDA:-BEAS), a supplier of service oriented architecture (SOA) and middle-ware software. SY November option implied volatility of 29 is above its 26-week average of 26 according to Track Data, suggesting slightly larger risk.

Openwave Systems(NASDAQ:OPWV), a provider of software solutions for the communications and media industry, is recently down 7 cents to $4.93. OPWV will announce EPS on 10/25. Barron's reported on 5/27/07 SY might be interested in OPWV. OPWV over all option implied volatility of 65 is near its 26-week average according to Track Data, suggesting non-directional risk.

Daily options Update is provided by Stock Specialist Paul Foster of theflyonthewall.com.

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