CNA Financial Stock Options Expiring on 16th of May 2025
| CNA Stock | USD 48.65 0.35 0.72% |
CNA Financial's latest option contracts expiring on 2025-05-16 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.37 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.11 over 6 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2025-05-16. The total put volume is at 1.0, with calls trading at the volume of 1.0. This yields a 0.08 put-to-call volume ratio.
CNA Financial's stock options are financial instruments that give investors the right to buy or sell shares of CNA Financial common stock at a specified price for a given time period. Generally speaking, an option to purchase or sell CNA stock makes it part of the underlying stock when the option's price is tied to the movement of the underlying stock. If CNA Financial's stock price goes up or down, the stock options follow.
At present, CNA Financial's Other Stockholder Equity is projected to decrease significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The current year's Stock Based Compensation is expected to grow to about 39.9 M, whereas Total Stockholder Equity is forecasted to decline to about 8.8 B. CNA Financial In The Money Call Balance
When CNA Financial's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against CNA Financial stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying CNA Financial'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 CNA Financial 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.
CNA Current Options Market Mood
CNA Financial'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 CNA 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 CNA Financial'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. CNA Financial'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 CNA contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that CNA Financial will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0231% per day over the life of the 2025-05-16 option contract. With CNA Financial trading at USD 48.65, that is roughly USD 0.0113. If you think that the market is fully incorporating CNA Financial's daily price movement you should consider buying CNA Financial options at the current volatility level of 0.37%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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CNA Financial Option Chain
When CNA Financial's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against CNA Financial 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.
CNA Financial's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on CNA. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for CNA. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a CNA Financial 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 | CNA Option Call 16-05-2025 40 | 8 | 2025-05-16 | 8.2 - 13.0 | 10.62 | In |
Call | CNA Option Call 16-05-2025 45 | 1 | 2025-05-16 | 4.1 - 8.5 | 6.31 | In |
Call | CNA Option Call 16-05-2025 50 | 0 | 2025-05-16 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 2.35 | |
Call | CNA Option Call 16-05-2025 55 | 0 | 2025-05-16 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 1.0 | |
Call | CNA Option Call 16-05-2025 75 | 0 | 2025-05-16 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.15 | |
Put | CNA Option Put 16-05-2025 30 | 1 | 2025-05-16 | 0.0 - 3.1 | 0.2 | Out |
CNA Total Stockholder Equity
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CNA Financial Corporate Directors
| Andrew Tisch | Director | Profile | |
| Marvin Zonis | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Michael Bless | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Benjamin Tisch | 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 CNA Financial. If investors know CNA 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 CNA Financial 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 0.095 | Dividend Share 1.74 | Earnings Share 4.79 | Revenue Per Share 51.885 | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.085 |
The market value of CNA Financial is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of CNA that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of CNA Financial's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is CNA Financial'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 CNA Financial's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect CNA Financial'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 CNA Financial's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if CNA Financial is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, CNA Financial'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.