Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: SWKS, PEP, RMD

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Skyworks Solutions Inc (SWKS), where a total volume of 7,762 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 776,200 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 44.1% of SWKS's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.8 million shares..