NL Industries Stock Options Expiring on 21st of February 2025
| NL Stock | USD 8.21 0.10 1.23% |
NL Industries' latest option contracts expiring on 2025-02-21 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.85 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 1.53 over 10 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more puts than calls on contracts expiring on 2025-02-21. The total put volume is at 20.0, with calls trading at the volume of 20.0. This yields a 2.5 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2025-02-21 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows NL Industries' 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. NL Industries' open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for NL Industries' option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
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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 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 0.0531% per day over the life of the 2025-02-21 option contract. With NL Industries trading at USD 8.21, that is roughly USD 0.004362. 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 0.85%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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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 Int | Expiration | Current Spread | Last Price | |||
Call | NL Option Call 21-02-2025 2 | 0 | 2025-02-21 | 4.8 - 7.1 | 5.0 | In |
Call | NL Option Call 21-02-2025 4 | 0 | 2025-02-21 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 3.0 | In |
Call | NL Option Call 21-02-2025 5 | 2 | 2025-02-21 | 1.05 - 3.2 | 1.45 | In |
Call | NL Option Call 21-02-2025 7 | 0 | 2025-02-21 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 1.05 | In |
Call | NL Option Call 21-02-2025 7 | 44 | 2025-02-21 | 0.45 - 0.9 | 0.5 | In |
Call | NL Option Call 21-02-2025 9 | 15 | 2025-02-21 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.2 | Out |
Call | NL Option Call 21-02-2025 10 | 3 | 2025-02-21 | 0.0 - 1.2 | 0.1 | Out |
Put | NL Option Put 21-02-2025 4 | 0 | 2025-02-21 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.1 | |
Put | NL Option Put 21-02-2025 5 | 98 | 2025-02-21 | 0.05 - 1.25 | 0.57 | Out |
Put | NL Option Put 21-02-2025 7 | 0 | 2025-02-21 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.4 |
NL Industries Total Stockholder Equity
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NL Industries Corporate Directors
| John Harper | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Cecil Moore | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Meredith Mendes | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Thomas Stafford | Independent Director | Profile |
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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.