Prudential PLC Stock Options
| PUK Stock | USD 17.15 0.10 0.59% |
Prudential PLC's latest option contracts expiring on 2024-12-20 are carrying combined implied volatility of 1.63 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.32 over 6 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2024-12-20. The total put volume is at 2.0, with calls trading at the volume of 2.0. This yields a 0.33 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2024-12-20 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows Prudential PLC'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. Prudential PLC's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Prudential PLC's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Prudential PLC
Analyzing Prudential PLC's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Prudential PLC regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Prudential PLC's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Prudential PLC's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Prudential PLC's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
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Prudential PLC ADR In The Money Call Balance
When Prudential PLC's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Prudential PLC ADR stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Prudential PLC'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 Prudential PLC ADR 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.
Prudential Current Options Market Mood
Prudential PLC'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 Prudential 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 Prudential PLC'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. Prudential PLC'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 Prudential contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Prudential PLC ADR will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.1% per day over the life of the 2024-12-20 option contract. With Prudential PLC trading at USD 17.15, that is roughly USD 0.0175. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Prudential PLC's daily price movement you should consider buying Prudential PLC ADR options at the current volatility level of 1.63%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Prudential PLC 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" Prudential calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Prudential PLC ADR stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Prudential PLC Option Chain
When Prudential PLC's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Prudential PLC ADR 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.
Prudential PLC's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Prudential. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Prudential. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Prudential PLC 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 | Expiration | Current Spread | Last Price | |||
Call | PUK Option Call 20-12-2024 12 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 2.5 - 6.4 | 3.2 | In |
Call | PUK Option Call 20-12-2024 15 | 9 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 4.6 | 1.3 | In |
Call | PUK Option Call 20-12-2024 17 | 234 | 2024-12-20 | 0.2 - 0.6 | 0.32 | Out |
Call | PUK Option Call 20-12-2024 20 | 2 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 1.0 | 0.05 | Out |
Put | PUK Option Put 20-12-2024 12 | 1 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 1.0 | 0.1 | Out |
Put | PUK Option Put 20-12-2024 15 | 77 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 1.0 | 0.25 | Out |
Prudential Total Stockholder Equity
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Prudential PLC Corporate Directors
| Alice Schroeder | Independent Non-Executive Director | Profile | |
| Jonathan Oliver | Group Communications Director | Profile | |
| Fields WickerMiurin | Non-Executive Independent Director | Profile | |
| Jeremy Anderson | Non-Executive Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Life & Health Insurance 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 Prudential PLC. If investors know Prudential 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 Prudential PLC 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 (0.87) | Dividend Share 0.211 | Earnings Share 0.64 | Revenue Per Share 1.9965 | Quarterly Revenue Growth (0.02) |
The market value of Prudential PLC ADR is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Prudential that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Prudential PLC's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Prudential PLC'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 Prudential PLC's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Prudential PLC'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 Prudential PLC's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Prudential PLC is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Prudential PLC'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.