Regional Management Stock Options
| RM Stock | USD 30.97 0.44 1.44% |
Regional Management's latest option contracts expiring on 2024-12-20 are carrying combined implied volatility of 1.64 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 1.08 over 6 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying slightly more puts than calls on contracts expiring on 2024-12-20. The total put volume is at 4.0, with calls trading at the volume of 4.0. This yields a 0.67 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2024-12-20 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows Regional Management'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. Regional Management's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Regional Management's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
Regional Management's option chain provides insight into all available option contracts written on Regional Management's stock. Investors can see outstanding put and call contracts with pricing information and greeks for a given expiration period. In addition, each of Regional Management's 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 Regional option contract.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Regional Management
Analyzing Regional Management's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Regional Management regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Regional Management's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Regional Management's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Regional Management's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
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Please note that buying 'in-the-money' options on Regional Management lessens the impact of time decay, as they carry both intrinsic and time value. So, even if Regional Management's value remains static through the expiration date, the investor can sell to close an 'in-the-money' option to avoid a potential loss. However, in-the-money Regional Management contracts are usually more expensive to enter than their out-of-the-money counterparts. So keep in mind that while the payoffs on an in-the-money trade can be high, the investors could ultimately experience a more consequential loss if Regional Stock moves the wrong way.
Regional Management Corp In The Money Call Balance
When Regional Management's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Regional Management Corp stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Regional Management'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 Regional Management Corp 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.
Regional Current Options Market Mood
Regional Management'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 Regional 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 Regional Management'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. Regional Management'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 Regional contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Regional Management Corp will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.1% per day over the life of the 2024-12-20 option contract. With Regional Management trading at USD 30.97, that is roughly USD 0.0317. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Regional Management's daily price movement you should consider buying Regional Management Corp options at the current volatility level of 1.64%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Regional Management 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" Regional calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Regional Management Corp stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Regional Management Option Chain
When Regional Management's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Regional Management Corp 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.
Regional Management's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Regional. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Regional. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Regional Management 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 | RM Option Call 20-12-2024 25 | 1 | 2024-12-20 | 2.1 - 7.0 | 8.0 | In |
Call | RM Option Call 20-12-2024 35 | 11 | 2024-12-20 | 0.25 - 0.95 | 0.52 | Out |
Put | RM Option Put 20-12-2024 20 | 1 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 4.5 | 0.9 | Out |
Put | RM Option Put 20-12-2024 22 | 1 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 4.3 | 0.05 | Out |
Put | RM Option Put 20-12-2024 30 | 11 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 4.6 | 0.55 | Out |
Put | RM Option Put 20-12-2024 35 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 6.0 - 10.0 | 7.8 | In |
Regional Management Selling And Marketing Expenses Over Time
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Regional Management Market Cap Over Time
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Regional Management Corporate Directors
| Jonathan Brown | Independent Director | Profile | |
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| Maria ContrerasSweet | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Consumer Finance 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 Regional Management. If investors know Regional 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 Regional Management 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 (0.17) | Dividend Share 1.2 | Earnings Share 2.37 | Revenue Per Share 58.139 | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.036 |
The market value of Regional Management Corp is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Regional that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Regional Management's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Regional Management'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 Regional Management's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Regional Management'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 Regional Management's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Regional Management is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Regional Management'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.