Brookdale Senior Stock Options Expiring on 17th of April 2025

BKD Stock  USD 5.68  0.17  3.09%   
Brookdale Senior's latest option contracts expiring on 2025-04-17 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.38 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.55 over 11 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2025-04-17. The total put volume is at 42.0, with calls trading at the volume of 42.0. This yields a 0.28 put-to-call volume ratio.

Open Interest Against 2025-04-17 Option Contracts

The chart above shows Brookdale Senior'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. Brookdale Senior's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Brookdale Senior's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
Brookdale Senior's stock options are financial instruments that give investors the right to buy or sell shares of Brookdale Senior Living common stock at a specified price for a given time period. Generally speaking, an option to purchase or sell Brookdale stock makes it part of the underlying stock when the option's price is tied to the movement of the underlying stock. If Brookdale Senior's stock price goes up or down, the stock options follow.
At present, Brookdale Senior's Capital Stock is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The current year's Stock Based Compensation is expected to grow to about 22.3 M, whereas Common Stock Shares Outstanding is forecasted to decline to about 141.4 M.

Brookdale Senior Living In The Money Call Balance

When Brookdale Senior's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Brookdale Senior Living stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Brookdale Senior'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 Brookdale Senior Living 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.

Brookdale Current Options Market Mood

Brookdale Senior'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 Brookdale 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 Brookdale Senior's options investors are not very successful. Brookdale Senior'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 Brookdale contract

Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Brookdale Senior Living will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0238% per day over the life of the 2025-04-17 option contract. With Brookdale Senior trading at USD 5.68, that is roughly USD 0.001349. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Brookdale Senior's daily price movement you should consider buying Brookdale Senior Living options at the current volatility level of 0.38%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
  

Brookdale Senior Option Chain

When Brookdale Senior's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Brookdale Senior Living 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.
Brookdale Senior's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Brookdale. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Brookdale. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Brookdale Senior 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 IntExpirationCurrent SpreadLast Price
Call
BKD Option Call 17-04-2025 502025-04-170.0 - 0.01.13In
Call
BKD Option Call 17-04-2025 602025-04-170.0 - 0.00.6Out
Call
BKD Option Call 17-04-2025 702025-04-170.0 - 0.00.27Out
Call
BKD Option Call 17-04-2025 802025-04-170.0 - 0.00.14Out
Call
BKD Option Call 17-04-2025 9102025-04-170.0 - 0.250.3Out
Call
BKD Option Call 17-04-2025 1002025-04-170.0 - 0.250.1Out
Call
BKD Option Call 17-04-2025 14102025-04-170.0 - 0.30.1Out
 Put
BKD Option Put 17-04-2025 3112025-04-170.0 - 0.150.16Out
 Put
BKD Option Put 17-04-2025 402025-04-170.0 - 0.00.3Out
 Put
BKD Option Put 17-04-2025 502025-04-170.0 - 0.00.5Out
 Put
BKD Option Put 17-04-2025 602025-04-170.0 - 1.00.71In

Brookdale Total Stockholder Equity

Total Stockholder Equity

383.48 Million

At present, Brookdale Senior's Total Stockholder Equity is projected to decrease significantly based on the last few years of reporting.

Brookdale Senior Corporate Directors

Victoria FreedIndependent DirectorProfile
Rita JohnsonMillsIndependent DirectorProfile
Marcus BromleyIndependent DirectorProfile
Frank BumsteadIndependent DirectorProfile
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Earnings Share
(0.93)
Revenue Per Share
13.041
Quarterly Revenue Growth
0.037
Return On Assets
0.0072
Return On Equity
(0.53)
The market value of Brookdale Senior Living is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Brookdale that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Brookdale Senior's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Brookdale Senior'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 Brookdale Senior's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Brookdale Senior'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 Brookdale Senior's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Brookdale Senior is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Brookdale Senior'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.