Booz Allen Stock Options
| BAH Stock | USD 131.93 3.81 2.97% |
Booz Allen's latest option contracts expiring on January 17th 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.32. The total put volume is at 70.0, with calls trading at the volume of 5.0. This yields a 14.0 put-to-call volume ratio. The Booz Allen option chain provides detailed quote and price information for the current Booz Allen Hamilton option contracts. It shows all of Booz Allen's listed puts, calls, expiration dates, strike prices, and other pricing information.
Booz Allen Maximum Pain Price Across 2025-01-17 Option Contracts
Booz Allen's 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, 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 Booz Allen
Analyzing Booz Allen's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Booz Allen regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Booz Allen's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Booz Allen's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Booz Allen's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Booz Allen Hamilton In The Money Call Balance
When Booz Allen's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Booz Allen Hamilton stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Booz Allen'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 Booz Allen Hamilton 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.
Booz Current Options Market Mood
Booz Allen'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 Booz 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
It is estimated that an average options trader loses somewhere between 80% to 90% of the time. Using current Booz Allen's option volume and open interest to make an investment decision is considered a contrarian-sentiment measure that can be utilized in many timing strategies in both derivative and spot marketplace.
Rule 16 of the current Booz contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Booz Allen Hamilton will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.02% per day over the life of the 2025-01-17 option contract. With Booz Allen trading at USD 131.93, that is roughly USD 0.0264. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Booz Allen's daily price movement you should consider buying Booz Allen Hamilton options at the current volatility level of 0.32%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Booz Allen 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" Booz calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Booz Allen Hamilton stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Booz Allen Option Chain
When Booz Allen's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Booz Allen Hamilton 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.
Booz Allen's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Booz. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Booz. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Booz Allen 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 | BAH250117C00125000 | 0 | 125.0 | 29.0 - 33.0 | 29.0 | In |
Call | BAH250117C00130000 | 0 | 130.0 | 24.5 - 28.5 | 24.5 | In |
Call | BAH250117C00135000 | 0 | 135.0 | 20.2 - 23.6 | 20.2 | In |
Call | BAH250117C00140000 | 0 | 140.0 | 15.5 - 19.7 | 15.5 | In |
Call | BAH250117C00145000 | 0 | 145.0 | 12.8 - 15.7 | 12.8 | In |
Call | BAH250117C00150000 | 0 | 150.0 | 9.3 - 12.2 | 9.3 | In |
Call | BAH250117C00155000 | 0 | 155.0 | 6.0 - 9.4 | 6.0 | |
Call | BAH250117C00160000 | 0 | 160.0 | 3.8 - 6.1 | 6.0 | |
Call | BAH250117C00165000 | 0 | 165.0 | 1.4 - 4.4 | 1.4 | |
Call | BAH250117C00170000 | 0 | 170.0 | 0.15 - 3.1 | 0.15 | |
Put | BAH250117P00125000 | 0 | 125.0 | 0.0 - 2.7 | 2.7 | |
Put | BAH250117P00130000 | 0 | 130.0 | 0.6 - 2.2 | 0.6 | |
Put | BAH250117P00135000 | 0 | 135.0 | 1.25 - 3.9 | 1.25 | |
Put | BAH250117P00140000 | 0 | 140.0 | 1.85 - 4.6 | 1.55 | |
Put | BAH250117P00145000 | 0 | 145.0 | 2.45 - 5.0 | 3.3 | |
Put | BAH250117P00150000 | 0 | 150.0 | 3.7 - 6.3 | 3.7 | |
Put | BAH250117P00155000 | 0 | 155.0 | 5.2 - 9.4 | 5.2 | |
Put | BAH250117P00160000 | 0 | 160.0 | 8.5 - 12.0 | 8.5 | In |
Put | BAH250117P00165000 | 0 | 165.0 | 11.4 - 15.4 | 11.4 | In |
Put | BAH250117P00170000 | 0 | 170.0 | 15.2 - 19.4 | 15.2 | In |
Booz Allen Market Cap Over Time
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Booz Allen Corporate Directors
| Joan Amble | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Philip Odeen | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Ian Fujiyama | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Arthur Johnson | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is IT Consulting & Other Services 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 Booz Allen. If investors know Booz 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 Booz Allen 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 1.331 | Dividend Share 2 | Earnings Share 6.35 | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.18 |
The market value of Booz Allen Hamilton is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Booz that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Booz Allen's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Booz Allen'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 Booz Allen's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Booz Allen'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 Booz Allen's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Booz Allen is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Booz Allen'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.