Charles River Stock Options
| CRL Stock | USD 193.55 3.50 1.78% |
Charles River's latest option contracts expiring on 2024-12-20 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.27 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 1.37 over 30 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying more puts than calls on contracts expiring on 2024-12-20. The total put volume is at 112, with calls trading at the volume of 112. This yields a 0.68 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2024-12-20 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows Charles River'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. Charles River's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Charles River's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Charles River
Analyzing Charles River's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Charles River regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Charles River's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Charles River's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Charles River's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
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Charles River Labora In The Money Call Balance
When Charles River's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Charles River Laboratories stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Charles River'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 Charles River Laboratories 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.
Charles Current Options Market Mood
Charles River'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 Charles 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 Charles River'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. Charles River'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 Charles contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Charles River Laboratories will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0169% per day over the life of the 2024-12-20 option contract. With Charles River trading at USD 193.55, that is roughly USD 0.0327. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Charles River's daily price movement you should consider buying Charles River Laboratories options at the current volatility level of 0.27%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Charles River 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" Charles calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Charles River Laboratories stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Charles River Option Chain
When Charles River's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Charles River Laboratories 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.
Charles River's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Charles. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Charles. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Charles River 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. Charles Total Stockholder Equity
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Charles River Corporate Directors
| Robert Bertolini | Independent Director | Profile | |
| George Milne | Lead Independent Director | Profile | |
| George Llado | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Nancy Andrews | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Life Sciences Tools & 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 Charles River. If investors know Charles 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 Charles River 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 (0.21) | Earnings Share 8 | Revenue Per Share 78.97 | Quarterly Revenue Growth (0.02) | Return On Assets 0.0487 |
The market value of Charles River Labora is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Charles that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Charles River's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Charles River'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 Charles River's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Charles River'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 Charles River's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Charles River is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Charles River'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.