Caledonia Mining Stock Options
| CMCL Stock | USD 9.35 0.02 0.21% |
Caledonia Mining's latest option contracts expiring on March 21st 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 1.14 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.89 over 20 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying slightly more calls than puts on contracts expiring on March 21st 2025.
Open Interest Against March 21st 2025 Option Contracts
2025-03-21
The chart above shows Caledonia Mining'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. Caledonia Mining's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Caledonia Mining's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Caledonia Mining
Analyzing Caledonia Mining's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Caledonia Mining regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Caledonia Mining's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Caledonia Mining's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Caledonia Mining's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Caledonia Mining In The Money Call Balance
When Caledonia Mining's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Caledonia Mining stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Caledonia Mining'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 Caledonia Mining 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.
Caledonia Current Options Market Mood
Caledonia Mining'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 Caledonia 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
Most options investors, including buyers and sellers of Caledonia Mining's calls and puts, are not very successful. It is estimated that an average options trader loses somewhere between 80% to 90% of the time. Caledonia Mining'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 Caledonia contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Caledonia Mining will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0712% per day over the life of the 2025-03-21 option contract. With Caledonia Mining trading at USD 9.35, that is roughly USD 0.006662. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Caledonia Mining's daily price movement you should consider buying Caledonia Mining options at the current volatility level of 1.14%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Caledonia Mining 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" Caledonia calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Caledonia Mining stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Caledonia Mining Option Chain
When Caledonia Mining's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Caledonia Mining 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.
Caledonia Mining's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Caledonia. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Caledonia. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Caledonia Mining 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 | Strike Price | Current Spread | Last Price | |||
Call | CMCL250321C00002500 | 0 | 2.5 | 6.3 - 7.7 | 6.3 | In |
Call | CMCL250321C00005000 | 0 | 5.0 | 3.9 - 5.2 | 10.46 | In |
Call | CMCL250321C00007500 | 3 | 7.5 | 1.7 - 2.3 | 2.0 | In |
Call | CMCL250321C00010000 | 29 | 10.0 | 0.15 - 0.9 | 0.6 | Out |
Call | CMCL250321C00012500 | 36 | 12.5 | 0.0 - 0.3 | 0.1 | Out |
Call | CMCL250321C00015000 | 35 | 15.0 | 0.0 - 0.3 | 0.3 | Out |
Call | CMCL250321C00017500 | 19 | 17.5 | 0.0 - 0.2 | 0.06 | Out |
Call | CMCL250321C00020000 | 51 | 20.0 | 0.0 - 0.2 | 0.6 | Out |
Call | CMCL250321C00022500 | 1 | 22.5 | 0.0 - 0.75 | 0.55 | Out |
Call | CMCL250321C00025000 | 1 | 25.0 | 0.0 - 0.75 | 0.35 | Out |
Put | CMCL250321P00002500 | 0 | 2.5 | 0.0 - 0.75 | 0.75 | |
Put | CMCL250321P00005000 | 0 | 5.0 | 0.0 - 0.75 | 0.75 | |
Put | CMCL250321P00007500 | 2 | 7.5 | 0.0 - 0.35 | 0.4 | Out |
Put | CMCL250321P00010000 | 43 | 10.0 | 0.5 - 1.4 | 1.0 | In |
Put | CMCL250321P00012500 | 95 | 12.5 | 2.85 - 3.5 | 2.81 | In |
Put | CMCL250321P00015000 | 13 | 15.0 | 5.4 - 5.9 | 4.79 | In |
Put | CMCL250321P00017500 | 1 | 17.5 | 7.9 - 9.2 | 3.3 | In |
Put | CMCL250321P00020000 | 2 | 20.0 | 10.4 - 11.0 | 9.05 | In |
Put | CMCL250321P00022500 | 0 | 22.5 | 12.8 - 13.6 | 12.8 | In |
Put | CMCL250321P00025000 | 0 | 25.0 | 15.3 - 16.0 | 15.3 | In |
Caledonia Mining Market Cap Over Time
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Caledonia Mining Corporate Management
| Adam Chester | General Compliance | Profile | |
| Leonet Steyn | Chief Officer | Profile | |
| S Smith | Exec | Profile | |
| Dana BSc | COO Director | Profile | |
| P Human | Exec | Profile | |
| Chester Goodburn | Chief Officer | Profile |
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Is Metals & Mining 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 Caledonia Mining. If investors know Caledonia 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 Caledonia Mining 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 (0.50) | Dividend Share 0.56 | Earnings Share 0.48 | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.14 |
The market value of Caledonia Mining is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Caledonia that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Caledonia Mining's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Caledonia Mining'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 Caledonia Mining's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Caledonia Mining'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 Caledonia Mining's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Caledonia Mining is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Caledonia Mining'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.