Assured Guaranty Stock Options Expiring on 16th of May 2025
| AGO Stock | USD 89.10 0.74 0.84% |
Assured Guaranty's latest option contracts expiring on 2025-05-16 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.26 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.42 over 10 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2025-05-16. The total put volume is at 54.0, with calls trading at the volume of 54.0. This yields a 1.74 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2025-05-16 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows Assured Guaranty's distribution of open interest by maturity on contracts that have not yet been settled. The area between the two highest points is the projection of the price at expiration. Assured Guaranty's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Assured Guaranty's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Assured Guaranty. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in price. Please note that buying 'in-the-money' options on Assured Guaranty lessens the impact of time decay, as they carry both intrinsic and time value. So, even if Assured Guaranty's value remains static through the expiration date, the investor can sell to close an 'in-the-money' option to avoid a potential loss. However, in-the-money Assured Guaranty contracts are usually more expensive to enter than their out-of-the-money counterparts. So keep in mind that while the payoffs on an in-the-money trade can be high, the investors could ultimately experience a more consequential loss if Assured Stock moves the wrong way.
Assured Guaranty In The Money Call Balance
When Assured Guaranty's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Assured Guaranty stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Assured Guaranty's options that are 'In the Money' or 'Out of the Money', the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
While 'out-of-the-money' option contracts written on Assured Guaranty are typically viewed as the more aggressive, there are potential upsides to purchasing these types of options contracts. For one, the cost to buy an 'Out of the Money' option is lower than the cost to buy an 'In the Money' option. This cost-benefit is due to the fact that at the time of the purchase, 'Out of the Money' contracts have no intrinsic value. So, while the potential for a 100% loss is more significant, the cost and risk to enter the trade are lower.
Assured Current Options Market Mood
Assured Guaranty's open interest and total value indicators provide investors with the necessary information to digest the overall options buildup for its expiring contracts. In addition, it helps Assured Stock's traders understand whether a recent fall or rise in the market is unreasonable and if the time has come to take contrarian positions. These ratios are calculated based on options trading volumes and current open interest.
Put-to-Call Open Interest
Put-to-Call Volume
Unfortunately, most Assured Guaranty's options investors are not very successful. Assured Guaranty's option open interest and volume spread between outstanding puts and calls are regarded by many investors as reliable indicators of the overall future market direction.
Rule 16 of the current Assured contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Assured Guaranty will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0163% per day over the life of the 2025-05-16 option contract. With Assured Guaranty trading at USD 89.1, that is roughly USD 0.0145. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Assured Guaranty's daily price movement you should consider buying Assured Guaranty options at the current volatility level of 0.26%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Assured Guaranty Option Chain
When Assured Guaranty's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Assured Guaranty stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying options that are ITM or OTM, the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
Assured Guaranty's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Assured. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Assured. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Assured Guaranty against a given expiration period. The table below combines all the option information in the form of a chain but before you use it, remember that it entails significant risk and it is not for everyone. | Open Int | Expiration | Current Spread | Last Price | |||
Call | AGO Option Call 16-05-2025 75 | 1 | 2025-05-16 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 8.6 | In |
Call | AGO Option Call 16-05-2025 80 | 3 | 2025-05-16 | 5.7 - 6.8 | 8.5 | In |
Call | AGO Option Call 16-05-2025 85 | 9 | 2025-05-16 | 7.3 - 11.1 | 12.15 | In |
Call | AGO Option Call 16-05-2025 90 | 209 | 2025-05-16 | 6.2 - 6.9 | 7.0 | Out |
Call | AGO Option Call 16-05-2025 95 | 64 | 2025-05-16 | 3.6 - 4.6 | 5.6 | Out |
Call | AGO Option Call 16-05-2025 100 | 6 | 2025-05-16 | 2.0 - 3.2 | 4.1 | Out |
Put | AGO Option Put 16-05-2025 70 | 2 | 2025-05-16 | 0.75 - 1.5 | 1.0 | Out |
Put | AGO Option Put 16-05-2025 80 | 0 | 2025-05-16 | 2.0 - 3.2 | 1.91 | |
Put | AGO Option Put 16-05-2025 85 | 97 | 2025-05-16 | 3.5 - 5.7 | 3.4 | Out |
Put | AGO Option Put 16-05-2025 90 | 23 | 2025-05-16 | 6.2 - 6.9 | 4.3 | In |
Assured Total Stockholder Equity
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Assured Guaranty Corporate Directors
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| Thomas Jones | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Bonnie Howard | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Simon Leathes | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Property & Casualty Insurance space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Assured Guaranty. If investors know Assured will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Assured Guaranty listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth 0.219 | Dividend Share 1.21 | Earnings Share 12.75 | Revenue Per Share 15.821 | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.01 |
The market value of Assured Guaranty is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Assured that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Assured Guaranty's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Assured Guaranty's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Assured Guaranty's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Assured Guaranty's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Assured Guaranty's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Assured Guaranty is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Assured Guaranty's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.