Home BancShares Stock Options Expiring on 21st of February
| HOMB Stock | USD 30.06 0.02 0.07% |
Home BancShares' latest option contracts expiring on February 21st 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 1.14 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 1.73 over 18 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more puts than calls on contracts expiring on February 21st 2025.
Open Interest Against February 21st 2025 Option Contracts
2025-02-21
The chart above shows Home BancShares' 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. Home BancShares' open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Home BancShares' option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
Home BancShares' stock options are financial instruments that give investors the right to buy or sell shares of Home BancShares common stock at a specified price for a given time period. Generally speaking, an option to purchase or sell Home stock makes it part of the underlying stock when the option's price is tied to the movement of the underlying stock. If Home BancShares' stock price goes up or down, the stock options follow.
At present, Home BancShares' Total Stockholder Equity is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The current year's Liabilities And Stockholders Equity is expected to grow to about 27.4 B, whereas Common Stock Shares Outstanding is forecasted to decline to about 128.2 M. Home BancShares In The Money Call Balance
When Home BancShares' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Home BancShares stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Home BancShares' 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 Home BancShares 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.
Home Current Options Market Mood
Home BancShares' 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 Home 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 Home BancShares' options investors are not very successful. Home BancShares' 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 Home contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Home BancShares will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0712% per day over the life of the 2025-02-21 option contract. With Home BancShares trading at USD 30.06, that is roughly USD 0.0214. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Home BancShares' daily price movement you should consider buying Home BancShares options at the current volatility level of 1.14%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Home BancShares Option Chain
When Home BancShares' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Home BancShares 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.
Home BancShares' option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Home. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Home. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Home BancShares 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 | HOMB250221C00015000 | 0 | 15.0 | 13.4 - 17.2 | 13.4 | In |
Call | HOMB250221C00017500 | 0 | 17.5 | 11.8 - 14.7 | 11.8 | In |
Call | HOMB250221C00020000 | 0 | 20.0 | 9.4 - 12.2 | 9.4 | In |
Call | HOMB250221C00022500 | 0 | 22.5 | 6.9 - 9.7 | 6.9 | In |
Call | HOMB250221C00025000 | 4 | 25.0 | 4.4 - 7.2 | 4.7 | In |
Call | HOMB250221C00030000 | 28 | 30.0 | 0.75 - 1.0 | 0.78 | Out |
Call | HOMB250221C00035000 | 5 | 35.0 | 0.0 - 2.15 | 0.11 | Out |
Call | HOMB250221C00040000 | 0 | 40.0 | 0.0 - 1.75 | 1.75 | |
Call | HOMB250221C00045000 | 0 | 45.0 | 0.0 - 1.75 | 1.75 | |
Put | HOMB250221P00015000 | 0 | 15.0 | 0.0 - 2.15 | 2.15 | |
Put | HOMB250221P00017500 | 0 | 17.5 | 0.0 - 1.1 | 1.1 | |
Put | HOMB250221P00020000 | 0 | 20.0 | 0.0 - 1.1 | 1.1 | |
Put | HOMB250221P00022500 | 0 | 22.5 | 0.0 - 2.15 | 2.15 | |
Put | HOMB250221P00025000 | 55 | 25.0 | 0.0 - 2.15 | 0.08 | Out |
Put | HOMB250221P00030000 | 9 | 30.0 | 0.7 - 1.05 | 0.8 | Out |
Put | HOMB250221P00035000 | 0 | 35.0 | 3.9 - 6.7 | 3.9 | In |
Put | HOMB250221P00040000 | 0 | 40.0 | 7.8 - 12.0 | 7.8 | In |
Put | HOMB250221P00045000 | 0 | 45.0 | 13.0 - 17.0 | 13.0 | In |
Home BancShares Selling And Marketing Expenses Over Time
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Home Total Stockholder Equity
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Home BancShares Corporate Directors
| Jim Rankin | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Mike Beebe | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Karen Garrett | Independent Director | Profile | |
| James Hinkle | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Regional Banks 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 Home BancShares. If investors know Home 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 Home BancShares 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 0.029 | Earnings Share 2.01 | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth (0.02) | Return On Assets |
The market value of Home BancShares is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Home that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Home BancShares' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Home BancShares' 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 Home BancShares' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Home BancShares' 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 Home BancShares' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Home BancShares is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Home BancShares' 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.