Kamala Harris Takes On Grocery Stores
In a speech last week, Vice President Kamala Harris proposed cracking down on price gouging (or as she called it, “price gauging”) by grocery store chains to fight food inflation.
A number of media observers suggested that Harris’s proposal was akin to price controls.
Of course, the problem with blaming supermarket chains for food price inflation is that they all operate on razor-think profit margins. The Kroger Company (KR), for example, according to Chartmill data, which is better than 63% of its industry.
Kamala Insurance For Kroger
If you own shares of Kroger, you may be concerned about the prospect of a President Kamala Harris imposing price controls. The TikTok video below uses the Portfolio Armor iPhone app to find two cost effective ways of hedging KR. Since we’re concerned specifically with political risk here, both hedges extend past November’s election.
This means that you would have collected a net credit of $420 when opening this hedge. That’s assuming, to be conservative, that you bought the puts at the ask, and sold the calls at the bid. In practice, you can often buy and sell options within the bid-ask spread, so your net credit in this case would likely have been more than $420.
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