Ashford Hospitality Stock Options
| AHT Stock | USD 7.59 0.14 1.88% |
Ashford Hospitality's latest option contracts expiring on January 17th 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.92 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.52 over 16 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying more calls than puts on contracts expiring on January 17th 2025.
Open Interest Against January 17th 2025 Option Contracts
Ashford Hospitality option prices can potentially be used to forecast stock returns because most option chains provide information not only about the current prices but also about the future conditions in Ashford Hospitality's lending market. For example, when Ashford Hospitality's puts are not actively trading or completely missing in the marketplace, investors can use it to internalize expected shorting costs. So if an investor is writing a put option on Ashford Hospitality, he or she must hedge the risk by shorting Ashford Hospitality stock over its option's life.
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The chart above shows Ashford Hospitality'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. Ashford Hospitality's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Ashford Hospitality's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Ashford Hospitality
Analyzing Ashford Hospitality's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Ashford Hospitality regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Ashford Hospitality's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Ashford Hospitality's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Ashford Hospitality's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Ashford Current Options Market Mood
Ashford Hospitality'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 Ashford 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 Ashford Hospitality's options investors are not very successful. Ashford Hospitality'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 Ashford contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Ashford Hospitality Trust will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0575% per day over the life of the 2025-01-17 option contract. With Ashford Hospitality trading at USD 7.59, that is roughly USD 0.004364. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Ashford Hospitality's daily price movement you should consider buying Ashford Hospitality Trust options at the current volatility level of 0.92%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Ashford Hospitality 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" Ashford calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Ashford Hospitality Trust stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Ashford Hospitality Option Chain
When Ashford Hospitality's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Ashford Hospitality Trust 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.
Ashford Hospitality's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Ashford. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Ashford. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Ashford Hospitality 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 | AHT250117C00002500 | 67 | 2.5 | 0.6 - 0.95 | 0.6 | Out |
Call | AHT250117C00005000 | 1197 | 5.0 | 0.2 - 0.35 | 0.3 | Out |
Call | AHT250117C00007500 | 341 | 7.5 | 0.0 - 0.25 | 0.2 | Out |
Call | AHT250117C00010000 | 832 | 10.0 | 0.05 - 0.15 | 0.05 | Out |
Call | AHT250117C00012500 | 336 | 12.5 | 0.0 - 0.1 | 0.1 | Out |
Call | AHT250117C00015000 | 25 | 15.0 | 0.0 - 0.1 | 0.1 | Out |
Call | AHT250117C00017500 | 387 | 17.5 | 0.0 - 0.1 | 0.1 | Out |
Call | AHT250117C00020000 | 28 | 20.0 | 0.0 - 1.35 | 1.35 | Out |
Put | AHT250117P00002500 | 219 | 2.5 | 0.6 - 0.95 | 0.6 | Out |
Put | AHT250117P00005000 | 1467 | 5.0 | 2.55 - 3.0 | 2.55 | Out |
Put | AHT250117P00007500 | 0 | 7.5 | 4.6 - 6.6 | 4.6 | |
Put | AHT250117P00010000 | 0 | 10.0 | 7.1 - 8.1 | 7.1 | |
Put | AHT250117P00012500 | 0 | 12.5 | 9.6 - 11.6 | 9.6 | |
Put | AHT250117P00015000 | 0 | 15.0 | 12.1 - 14.4 | 12.1 | |
Put | AHT250117P00017500 | 0 | 17.5 | 13.0 - 16.4 | 13.0 | |
Put | AHT250117P00020000 | 0 | 20.0 | 16.7 - 18.5 | 16.7 |
Ashford Hospitality Selling And Marketing Expenses Over Time
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Ashford Hospitality Corporate Directors
| Kamal Jafarnia | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Sheri Pantermuehl | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Benjamin Ansell | Lead Independent Director | Profile | |
| Amish Gupta | Lead Independent Director | Profile |
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