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CarMax Puts?

 Here is the number. Call in to listen to their just released quarterly report. You won't have to talk to anyone. It is 800-839-1247. In about five days this link will disappear. Please listen to it. I listened to all of it once and to the first half of it two times. What I learned is that their retail car sales on the quarter compared to the same quarter a year were up 6%. They purchased 336.000 vehicles from the public, up 7% and 48.000 from dealers up 38%. Their average retail sale price was $26,100, down $400.00 per vehicle from last year. They doubled their share buy back program. AI technologies are now helping them operate more efficiently. Everything seems positive. But wait, we are talking about  the used car business and what could happen if consumer confidence suddenly starts to wain? Look at it's three year chart. It now sees to be hitting a rough patch.  Now a one month chart.  All of this talk about tariffs and what level of tariffs will be imposed on n...

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I see this companies electric vehicles on the road and I have to admit they offer a fantastic ten year warranty. Are they reckless in making such a offer when they have no track history? Might not high servicing costs come back to bite them further down the road?
Look at how the stock jumped this week on this good news. While high production increases are only one part of a companies story they are encouraging to their shareholders.
Visit there website and learn about their dealership network. The waiting game begins to hear about their next earning's report. Now look at these three charts.
Back on Sept. 6th I wrote a blog on "Nio", a chinese electric car company. Here is it's chart that I showed in that blog.
It shows Nio jumping 25% in one week. Now let's look at it's three month chart.
Recently I did some blogs on trading options in the five dollar range. The scary part is we have seen how other stocks in this space are down. Look at these four. None are up. All have a story but none of them are rewarding shareholders.
Lucid just made the announcement they are issuing new shares to help raise money. Other news.
Do your own homework on this one.

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