Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: MIDD, GES, UPST

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Middleby Corp (MIDD), where a total of 3,250 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 325,000 underlying shares. That amounts to about 73.4% of MIDD's average daily trading volume over the past month of 442,920 shares..