Commit To Buy Freescale Semiconductor At $27, Earn 6.1% Using Options

Investors eyeing a purchase of Freescale Semiconductor Ltd (FSL) stock, but tentative about paying the going market price of $35.45/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the January 2017 put at the $27 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of $1.65..