NL Industries Stock Options

NL Stock  USD 8.21  0.10  1.23%   
NL Industries' latest option contracts expiring on 2024-12-20 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.09 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.0 over 4 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2024-12-20. The NL Industries option chain provides detailed quote and price information for the current NL Industries option contracts. It shows all of NL Industries' listed puts, calls, expiration dates, strike prices, and other pricing information.
NL Industries' option chain provides insight into all available option contracts written on NL Industries' stock. Investors can see outstanding put and call contracts with pricing information and greeks for a given expiration period. In addition, each of NL Industries' 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 NL Industries option contract.

In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on NL Industries

Analyzing NL Industries' in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in NL Industries regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when NL Industries' options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money NL Industries' options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with NL Industries' stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in NL Industries. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in bureau of economic analysis.
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NL Industries In The Money Call Balance

When NL Industries' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against NL Industries stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying NL Industries' 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 NL Industries 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.

NL Industries Current Options Market Mood

NL Industries' 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 NL Industries 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 Volume

Unfortunately, most NL Industries' options investors are not very successful. NL Industries' 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 NL Industries contract

Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that NL Industries will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.005863% per day over the life of the 2024-12-20 option contract. With NL Industries trading at USD 8.21, that is roughly USD 4.81E-4. If you think that the market is fully incorporating NL Industries' daily price movement you should consider buying NL Industries options at the current volatility level of 0.0938%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
  
Purchasing NL Industries 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" NL Industries calls. Remember, the seller must deliver NL Industries stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.

NL Industries Option Chain

When NL Industries' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against NL Industries 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.
NL Industries' option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on NL Industries. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for NL Industries. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a NL Industries 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
NL Option Call 20-12-2024 502024-12-200.0 - 0.03.14In
Call
NL Option Call 20-12-2024 702024-12-200.0 - 0.00.8In
Call
NL Option Call 20-12-2024 1002024-12-200.0 - 0.00.05Out
 Put
NL Option Put 20-12-2024 702024-12-200.0 - 0.00.3Out

NL Industries Total Stockholder Equity

Total Stockholder Equity

388.3 Million

At this time, NL Industries' Total Stockholder Equity is quite stable compared to the past year.

NL Industries Corporate Directors

John HarperIndependent DirectorProfile
Cecil MooreIndependent DirectorProfile
Meredith MendesIndependent DirectorProfile
Thomas StaffordIndependent DirectorProfile
Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in NL Industries. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in bureau of economic analysis.
For more information on how to buy NL Industries Stock please use our How to buy in NL Industries Stock guide.
You can also try the Efficient Frontier module to plot and analyze your portfolio and positions against risk-return landscape of the market..
Is Commercial Services & Supplies 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 NL Industries. If investors know NL Industries 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 NL Industries 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
1.382
Dividend Share
0.31
Earnings Share
1.19
Revenue Per Share
3.085
Quarterly Revenue Growth
(0.17)
The market value of NL Industries is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of NL Industries that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of NL Industries' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is NL Industries' 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 NL Industries' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect NL Industries' 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 NL Industries' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if NL Industries is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, NL Industries' 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.