Virgin Galactic Stock Options
| SPCE Stock | USD 4.74 0.24 5.33% |
Virgin Galactic's latest option contracts expiring on April 17th 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 1.3 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.31 over 29 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more calls than puts on contracts expiring on April 17th 2025. The total put volume is at 3.0, with calls trading at the volume of 90.0. This yields a 0.03 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against April 17th 2025 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows Virgin Galactic'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. Virgin Galactic's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Virgin Galactic's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
Virgin Galactic Maximum Pain Price Across 2025-04-17 Option Contracts
Max pain usually refers to a trading concept that asserts that market manipulation can cause the market price of particular securities such as Virgin Galactic close to expiration to expire worthless. So, Max pain occurs when market makers reach a net positive position across all options at a strike price where option holders stand to lose the most money. By contrast, Virgin Galactic's option sellers may reap the most after selling more options than buying, causing them to expire worthless.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Virgin Galactic
Analyzing Virgin Galactic's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Virgin Galactic regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Virgin Galactic's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Virgin Galactic's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Virgin Galactic's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Virgin Galactic's stock options are financial instruments that give investors the right to buy or sell shares of Virgin Galactic Holdings common stock at a specified price for a given time period. Generally speaking, an option to purchase or sell Virgin stock makes it part of the underlying stock when the option's price is tied to the movement of the underlying stock. If Virgin Galactic's stock price goes up or down, the stock options follow.
At present, Virgin Galactic's Other Stockholder Equity is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. Virgin Galactic Holdings In The Money Call Balance
When Virgin Galactic's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Virgin Galactic Holdings stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Virgin Galactic'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 Virgin Galactic Holdings 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.
Virgin Current Options Market Mood
Virgin Galactic'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 Virgin 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 Virgin Galactic's options investors are not very successful. Virgin Galactic'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 Virgin contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Virgin Galactic Holdings will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0813% per day over the life of the 2025-04-17 option contract. With Virgin Galactic trading at USD 4.74, that is roughly USD 0.003851. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Virgin Galactic's daily price movement you should consider buying Virgin Galactic Holdings options at the current volatility level of 1.3%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Virgin Galactic 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" Virgin calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Virgin Galactic Holdings stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Virgin Galactic Option Chain
When Virgin Galactic's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Virgin Galactic Holdings 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.
Virgin Galactic's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Virgin. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Virgin. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Virgin Galactic 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 | SPCE250417C00002000 | 2 | 2.0 | 2.62 - 2.87 | 3.65 | In |
Call | SPCE250417C00003000 | 14 | 3.0 | 1.65 - 1.98 | 1.82 | In |
Call | SPCE250417C00004000 | 513 | 4.0 | 0.98 - 1.27 | 1.04 | In |
Call | SPCE250417C00005000 | 414 | 5.0 | 0.71 - 0.82 | 0.85 | Out |
Call | SPCE250417C00006000 | 168 | 6.0 | 0.44 - 0.53 | 0.52 | Out |
Call | SPCE250417C00007000 | 206 | 7.0 | 0.3 - 0.37 | 0.33 | Out |
Call | SPCE250417C00008000 | 485 | 8.0 | 0.13 - 0.26 | 0.21 | Out |
Call | SPCE250417C00009000 | 201 | 9.0 | 0.06 - 0.19 | 0.32 | Out |
Call | SPCE250417C00010000 | 555 | 10.0 | 0.08 - 0.14 | 0.12 | Out |
Call | SPCE250417C00011000 | 35 | 11.0 | 0.07 - 0.11 | 0.07 | Out |
Call | SPCE250417C00012000 | 168 | 12.0 | 0.04 - 0.09 | 0.09 | Out |
Call | SPCE250417C00013000 | 33 | 13.0 | 0.02 - 0.09 | 0.09 | Out |
Call | SPCE250417C00014000 | 752 | 14.0 | 0.01 - 0.22 | 0.05 | Out |
Call | SPCE250417C00015000 | 240 | 15.0 | 0.02 - 0.11 | 0.02 | Out |
Put | SPCE250417P00001000 | 10 | 1.0 | 0.0 - 0.12 | 0.04 | Out |
Put | SPCE250417P00002000 | 72 | 2.0 | 0.0 - 0.16 | 0.05 | Out |
Put | SPCE250417P00003000 | 258 | 3.0 | 0.17 - 0.22 | 0.19 | Out |
Put | SPCE250417P00004000 | 227 | 4.0 | 0.36 - 0.57 | 0.53 | Out |
Put | SPCE250417P00005000 | 228 | 5.0 | 0.93 - 1.13 | 1.21 | In |
Put | SPCE250417P00006000 | 49 | 6.0 | 1.74 - 1.84 | 1.94 | In |
Put | SPCE250417P00007000 | 120 | 7.0 | 2.52 - 2.67 | 2.62 | In |
Put | SPCE250417P00008000 | 15 | 8.0 | 3.45 - 3.55 | 3.08 | In |
Put | SPCE250417P00009000 | 106 | 9.0 | 4.35 - 4.5 | 3.95 | In |
Put | SPCE250417P00010000 | 34 | 10.0 | 4.7 - 6.05 | 4.92 | In |
Put | SPCE250417P00011000 | 13 | 11.0 | 5.7 - 6.75 | 5.0 | In |
Put | SPCE250417P00012000 | 39 | 12.0 | 6.65 - 7.5 | 5.75 | In |
Put | SPCE250417P00013000 | 0 | 13.0 | 7.7 - 8.7 | 7.7 | In |
Put | SPCE250417P00014000 | 0 | 14.0 | 9.15 - 9.95 | 9.15 | In |
Put | SPCE250417P00015000 | 1 | 15.0 | 9.7 - 10.9 | 8.7 | In |
Virgin Total Stockholder Equity
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Virgin Galactic Corporate Management
| Seth Zaslow | Vice President - Investor Relations | Profile | |
| Aleanna Crane | Vice Communications | Profile | |
| David Mackay | Chief Pilot | Profile | |
| Swami Iyer | President - Aerospace Systems | Profile |
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Is Aerospace & Defense 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 Virgin Galactic. If investors know Virgin 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 Virgin Galactic listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Earnings Share (16.26) | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth (0.77) | Return On Assets | Return On Equity |
The market value of Virgin Galactic Holdings is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Virgin that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Virgin Galactic's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Virgin Galactic'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 Virgin Galactic's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Virgin Galactic'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 Virgin Galactic's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Virgin Galactic is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Virgin Galactic'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.