AMN241220P00075000 Option on AMN Healthcare Services
| AMN Stock | USD 27.15 0.45 1.63% |
AMN Healthcare's latest option contracts expiring on 2024-12-20 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.35 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.94 over 38 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying slightly more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2024-12-20. The total put volume is at 91.0, with calls trading at the volume of 91.0. This yields a 0.96 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2024-12-20 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows AMN Healthcare'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. AMN Healthcare's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for AMN Healthcare's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
AMN Healthcare's option chain provides insight into all available option contracts written on AMN Healthcare's stock. Investors can see outstanding put and call contracts with pricing information and greeks for a given expiration period. In addition, each of AMN Healthcare's stock options below provides a detailed picture of the payoff. Comparing vital and dynamic information of various option contracts across diverse expiration periods will help you make an educated decision on your market timing strategies around investing in a given AMN option contract.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on AMN Healthcare
Analyzing AMN Healthcare's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in AMN Healthcare regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when AMN Healthcare's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money AMN Healthcare's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with AMN Healthcare's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
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Please note that buying 'in-the-money' options on AMN Healthcare lessens the impact of time decay, as they carry both intrinsic and time value. So, even if AMN Healthcare'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 AMN Healthcare 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 AMN Stock moves the wrong way.
AMN Healthcare Services In The Money Call Balance
When AMN Healthcare's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against AMN Healthcare Services stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying AMN Healthcare'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 AMN Healthcare Services 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.
AMN Current Options Market Mood
AMN Healthcare'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 AMN 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 AMN Healthcare's options investors are not very successful. AMN Healthcare'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 AMN contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that AMN Healthcare Services will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0219% per day over the life of the 2024-12-20 option contract. With AMN Healthcare trading at USD 27.15, that is roughly USD 0.005939. If you think that the market is fully incorporating AMN Healthcare's daily price movement you should consider buying AMN Healthcare Services options at the current volatility level of 0.35%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing AMN Healthcare options can give investors a meaningful hedge against losses and, therefore, could be used conservatively to decrease the volatility of your portfolio. However, many options could also amount to little more than gambling, significantly enhancing your overall portfolio risk. One simple example of these aggressive strategies is the sale of "uncovered" AMN calls. Remember, the seller must deliver AMN Healthcare Services stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
AMN Healthcare Option Chain
When AMN Healthcare's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against AMN Healthcare Services 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.
AMN Healthcare's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on AMN. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for AMN. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a AMN Healthcare 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 | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 17 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 8.3 | In |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 22 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 4.6 | In |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 25 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 2.65 | In |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 30 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.45 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 35 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.15 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 40 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.05 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 45 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.1 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 50 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.1 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 55 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.05 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 60 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.05 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 65 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.1 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 70 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.12 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 75 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.14 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 80 | 70 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.2 | 0.1 | Out |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 85 | 39 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 1.85 | Out |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 90 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.1 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 95 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.04 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 100 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.05 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 105 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.5 - 0.0 | 0.07 | |
Call | AMN Option Call 20-12-2024 110 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.05 | |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 17 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.05 | |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 20 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.32 | |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 22 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.25 | |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 25 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.5 | |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 30 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 5.1 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 35 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 7.5 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 40 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 15.2 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 45 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 21.0 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 50 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 21.12 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 55 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 26.1 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 60 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 31.31 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 65 | 78 | 2024-12-20 | 10.6 - 15.3 | 6.8 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 70 | 9 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 18.5 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 75 | 7 | 2024-12-20 | 27.0 - 31.9 | 19.0 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 80 | 8 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 28.2 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 85 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 13.6 - 17.7 | 16.6 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 90 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 24.6 - 28.8 | 33.0 | In |
Put | AMN Option Put 20-12-2024 95 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 35.6 - 40.5 | 21.36 | In |
AMN Healthcare Market Cap Over Time
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AMN Healthcare Corporate Directors
| Mark Foletta | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Michael Johns | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Martha Marsh | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Daphne Jones | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Health Care Providers & Services 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 AMN Healthcare. If investors know AMN 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 AMN Healthcare 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 (0.87) | Earnings Share 1.43 | Revenue Per Share 80.434 | Quarterly Revenue Growth (0.19) | Return On Assets 0.0315 |
The market value of AMN Healthcare Services is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of AMN that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of AMN Healthcare's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is AMN Healthcare'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 AMN Healthcare's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect AMN Healthcare'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 AMN Healthcare's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if AMN Healthcare is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, AMN Healthcare'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.