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General Motors (GM - option chain) stock is trading lower today after company CFO Chris Liddell announced his resignation effective April 1. GM posted four straight profitable quarters under Liddell and successfully pulled off a major IPO after repairing massive accounting issues. GM said Treasurer Dan Ammann will replace Liddell. If you think this stock won't be rising too far in the coming months, then it could be a good time to look at a bearish hedged play on GM.This morning, GM opened at $31.47. So far today the stock has hit a high of $31.78 and a low of $30.95. As of 12:05, GM is trading at $31.51, down $0.74 (-2.3%). The chart for GM looks neutral and S&P gives GM a neutral 3 STARS (out of 5) hold ranking.
For a bearish hedged play on this stock, I would consider an April bear-call credit spread above the $35 range. A bear-call credit spread is an options position that combines the purchase and sale of call options to hedge risk in case the stock doesn't do what you think but still leverage nice returns. For this particular trade, we will make a 7.1% return in five weeks as long as GM is below $35 at April expiration. General Motors would have to rise by more than 10% before we would start to lose money. Learn more about this type of trade here.
GM hasn't been above $35 at all in the past two weeks and has shown resistance around $32 recently.
Brent Archer is an options analyst and writer at Investors Observer.
DISCLOSURE: Mr. Archer owns and/or controls diversified portfolios of long and short stock and option positions that may include holdings in companies he writes about. At publication time, Brent neither owns nor controls positions in GM.
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