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In Thursday’s unusual options activity, the calls continued to outpace the puts, 754 to 434. Although regional banks were the story of the day, there are three stocks whose unusually active options sets up for potential long strangles.

Amer Sports had only one unusually active option in Wednesday’s trading, but it was a big one. The sporting goods company’s Oct. 17 $35 call was the fourth-highest Vol/OI ratio out of 1,394 unusually active options.

Throughout the last three months, 13 analysts have evaluated Amer Sports (NYSE:AS), offering a diverse set of opinions from bullish to bearish.

Amer Sports, the parent company of Enve Composites, has filed for U.S. initial public offering (IPO). Currently a privately held company, this move would see Amer Sports go public for the first time in the U.S., meaning that people can buy a share of the company and become minor owners.

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