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Sealy's $235,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 10.875% Senior Secured Notes due

In the report, Altobello noted, “We are updating estimates for Tempur-Pedic (soon to be known as Tempur Sealy) to reflect the recently completed acquisition of Sealy Corp. As expected, the transaction

Index Technicals: The Dow looks set to stall at 14,400, with lower intraday support around the 14,250 level. Major daily support

Today’s tickers: AMTD, TPX & DKS

AMTD - TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. – Large bullish bets in August expiry options on online broker, TD Ameritrade, are trading for a third consecutive week, with shares in the name up 11% since the beginning of March to stand at $20.72 as of midday in New York on Friday. Big prints in Aug. $23 strike calls attracted some attention on February 28th, after roughly 40,000 of those contracts were purchased for a premium of $0.25 apiece. The following week on March 5th, another 40,000 contracts changed hands at the Aug. $23 strike at a premium of $0.35 each. This morning, it looks like another 20,000 of the Aug. $23 strike call options were purchased at a premium of $0.65 apiece. The contracts purchased at the end of February have more than doubled in value and the calls picked up last week have appreciated substantially as of the time of this writing. Continued gains in the price of the underlying ahead of August expiration may generate additional paper profits on these positions. Upside calls purchased on AMTD this morning make money at August expiration as long as shares in the online broker surge 14% to exceed the breakeven price of $23.65.

TPX - Tempur-Pedic International, Inc. – Shares in premium mattress maker, Tempur-Pedic, jumped 9.0% to $46.44 on Friday morning after the Federal Trade Commission cleared the company’s planned acquisition of Sealy Corp. in a transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion. The sharp move in the price of the underlying shares sparked heavy trading traffic in TPX options at the start of the session; overall volume is above 13,000 contracts as of 11:00 a.m. ET, versus the stock’s average daily volume of around 11,750 contracts. One strategist appears to be taking a bearish stance on the stock through April expiration, with shares in TPX having increased 45% year-to-date and more than 120% since June of 2012. It looks like the trader initiated a ratio put spread, buying 300 puts at the April…

Index Technicals: The Dow looks set to stall at 14,400, with lower intraday support around the 14,250 level. Major daily support will be

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The appointment of Mr. Yaggi as COO—a new role

Friday, the market reacted, giving a thumbs-up to Tempur-Pedic (NYSE: TPX) which closed at $40.79, up more than 6 percent; and a thumbs-down to Select Comfort (NASDAQ: SCSS) which ended the day at $23.16, down nearly

Tempur-Pedic jumped nearly 18 percent after the company reported earnings Thursday. For the fourth quarter, Tempur-Pedic reported an earnings per share figure of $0.60, more than the $0.55 estimate. On

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Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is expected

The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at Tempur-Pedic International (NYSE: TPX) is 9.77%. Tempur-Pedic's ROE for the same period is 321.07%.

The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at Ethan Allen Interiors (NYSE: ETH) is 7.24%.

The company beat Wall Street analysts' earnings and revenue expectations, but provided a weak outlook for the fourth-quarter and slashed its full-year guidance. Despite reporting a 51 percent jump in

Walter Energy Shares Rally on Unconfirmed Chatter of Offer from BHP

The Rumor:Shares of Walter Energy (NYSE: WLT) rose almost 6% on Friday following unconfirmed market chatter of a $50 per share

Today’s tickers: FB, TPX & ACN

FB - Facebook, Inc. – Shares in the largest social networking company are bucking the trend today, trading up 6.7% on the day at $21.68 as of 11:50 a.m. in New York. Trading traffic in weekly options on Facebook this morning suggests some traders are positioning for shares in the name to extend gains in the near term. The company yesterday launched a new gift-giving feature that allows users to buy items for friends without exiting the site. Traders anticipating continued gains the share price next week snapped up more than 2,000 calls at the Oct. 05 ’12 $21 strike for an average premium of $0.83 apiece this morning. Intraday moves in the price of the underlying now finds premium required to purchase the $21 strike call has nearly doubled since then to $1.20 apiece as of 12:40 p.m. ET. Buyers stepped in to get long the Oct. 05 ’12 $21.5 and $22 strike weekly calls, as well. It looks like traders picked up more than 1,800 calls at each strike, paying average premiums of $0.50 and $0.31 apiece, on average, respectively. Fresh interest is also building in far out-of-the-money weekly calls with $22.5 and $23 striking prices. Traders paid an average premium of $0.21 apiece to buy roughly 200 of the $22.5 strike calls and plunked down $0.12 in premium to purchase some 240 of the $23 strike call options. Call buyers may see the value of their contracts increase if Facebook’s shares continue to push higher during the next five trading sessions. Intraday price action in FB shares has already moved the needle in favor of early-bird call buyers who now hold bullish options that have doubled in value in some cases since this morning.

TPX - Tempur-Pedic International, Inc.– News that memory-foam mattress maker, Tempur-Pedic International, Inc., agreed to purchase Sealy Corp. sent shares in TPX up sharply on Thursday and spurred some upside call buying…

Today’s tickers: TPX, YHOO & MDT

TPX - Tempur-Pedic International, Inc. – Shares in memory-foam mattress maker, Tempur-Pedic International, Inc., jumped 23% to $32.99 on Thursday after the company said it will pay $2.20 a share or $229 million for private equity-owned Sealy Corp. in a deal that combines the two largest publicly-traded mattress companies. TPX options are more active than usual today on the news, with volume currently approaching 6,000 contracts by 11:45 a.m. ET versus the stock’s average daily options volume of around 1,500 contracts. One options trader who initiated a three-legged bullish play on Tempur-Pedic on Tuesday saw the value of the position rise substantially with the pop in the price of the underlying today. The strategist appears to have sold 500 puts at the Nov. $24 strike in order to partially offset the cost of buying a 500-lot Nov. $30/$35 call spread. The net cost of establishing the bullish stance on TPX on Tuesday amounted to $0.45 per contract, leaving the trader with an upside breakeven price of $30.45 and the opportunity to rake in as much as $4.55 per contract in profits provided shares top $35.00 by November expiration. The sharp move in TPX shares Thursday finds premium required to establish the same three-way spread has since increased 360% to $2.10 per contract based on bid/ask prices available as of 12:05 p.m. ET. Trading traffic in TPX options today suggests the strategist is still holding onto the position. Finally, fresh positioning in front-month call options this morning indicates other strategists are taking a bullish stance on the shares. Upwards of 400 calls changed hands at the Oct. $32 strike versus open interest of 172 contracts. It looks like most of the calls were purchased for an average premium of $2.09 apiece this morning, providing buyers an upside breakeven price of $34.09.

YHOO - Yahoo!, Inc.– A large bull call spread initiated on Internet media company, Yahoo!, Inc., this morning suggests…

Today’s tickers: TPX, AAPL & PPG

TPX - Tempur-Pedic International, Inc. – Investors in mattress maker, Tempur-Pedic International, may be able to sleep a bit easier ahead of the second-quarter earnings report next week after Select Comfort Corp., the maker of Sleep Number adjustable beds, posted better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and raised their full year profit forecast on Wednesday. Shares in TPX are up 5% at $26.81 today in sympathy with Select Comfort, which rallied nearly 30% to an intraday high of $28.13 a share this morning. Options activity on Tempur-Pedic suggests traders are positioning for the price of the stock to extend gains in the near term. Fresh interest in the August expiry calls started to build just before 10:30 a.m. ET this morning, with the Aug. $28 strike call trading 675 times versus open interest of 89 contracts. It looks like most of the calls were purchased for an average premium of $1.51 apiece, positioning for an upside move of at least 10% by expiration. Upside call buying spread to the Aug. $29 strike where around 440 calls were purchased at an average premium of $1.30 each. Far out-of-the-money $31 and $32 strike calls changed hands more than 500 times apiece in the first half of the session. Shares in TPX are down 50% year-to-date.

AAPL - Apple, Inc. – The iPhone maker’s shares are sitting near their highs of the day, currently up 1.2% at $613.51 as of 12:30 p.m. ET. The newly available weekly options are humming with activity ahead of the company’s third-quarter earnings report next Tuesday, helping drive the day’s volume to 350,000 contracts, roughly 57% of the stock’s average daily options volume, in the first half of the trading session. Call options are more active than puts this afternoon, with the call-to-put ratio hovering around 1.65. Options with one full trading day left to expiration are the most heavily trafficked, specifically the July 20 ’12 $110 call where upwards…