RICK241220P00032500 Option on RCI Hospitality Holdings
| RICK Stock | USD 52.93 0.84 1.61% |
RCI Hospitality's latest option contracts expiring on 2024-12-20 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.47 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 3.0 over 21 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more puts than calls on contracts expiring on 2024-12-20. The total put volume is at 84.0, with calls trading at the volume of 84.0. This yields a 1.65 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2024-12-20 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows RCI 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. RCI Hospitality's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for RCI Hospitality's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on RCI Hospitality
Analyzing RCI Hospitality's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in RCI Hospitality regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when RCI Hospitality's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money RCI Hospitality's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with RCI Hospitality's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Check out Your Equity Center to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in RCI Hospitality Holdings. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in main economic indicators.
RCI Hospitality Holdings In The Money Call Balance
When RCI Hospitality's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against RCI Hospitality Holdings stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying RCI Hospitality'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 RCI Hospitality Holdings 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.
RCI Current Options Market Mood
RCI 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 RCI 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 RCI Hospitality's options investors are not very successful. RCI 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 RCI contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that RCI Hospitality Holdings will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0294% per day over the life of the 2024-12-20 option contract. With RCI Hospitality trading at USD 52.93, that is roughly USD 0.0155. If you think that the market is fully incorporating RCI Hospitality's daily price movement you should consider buying RCI Hospitality Holdings options at the current volatility level of 0.47%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing RCI 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" RCI calls. Remember, the seller must deliver RCI Hospitality Holdings stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
RCI Hospitality Option Chain
When RCI Hospitality's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against RCI Hospitality Holdings 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.
RCI Hospitality's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on RCI. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for RCI. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a RCI 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 | Expiration | Current Spread | Last Price | |||
Call | RICK Option Call 20-12-2024 42 | 1 | 2024-12-20 | 7.5 - 11.5 | 3.6 | In |
Call | RICK Option Call 20-12-2024 45 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 7.3 | In |
Call | RICK Option Call 20-12-2024 47 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 4.08 | In |
Call | RICK Option Call 20-12-2024 50 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 3.7 | In |
Call | RICK Option Call 20-12-2024 52 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 2.26 | |
Call | RICK Option Call 20-12-2024 55 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 1.18 | |
Call | RICK Option Call 20-12-2024 57 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.6 | |
Call | RICK Option Call 20-12-2024 60 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.25 | |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 25 | 1 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.25 | 0.13 | Out |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 30 | 1 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.25 | 0.25 | Out |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 32 | 1 | 2024-12-20 | 0.05 - 0.25 | 0.45 | Out |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 35 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.15 | |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 37 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.18 | |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 40 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.15 | |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 42 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.13 | |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 45 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.2 | |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 47 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.45 | |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 50 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 1.0 | |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 52 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 1.9 | In |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 55 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 4.49 | In |
Put | RICK Option Put 20-12-2024 57 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 5.62 | In |
RCI Hospitality Selling And Marketing Expenses Over Time
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RCI Hospitality Market Cap Over Time
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RCI Total Stockholder Equity
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Check out Your Equity Center to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in RCI Hospitality Holdings. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in main economic indicators. You can also try the Economic Indicators module to top statistical indicators that provide insights into how an economy is performing.
Is Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure 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 RCI Hospitality. If investors know RCI 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 RCI Hospitality 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 (0.90) | Dividend Share 0.23 | Earnings Share 0.52 | Revenue Per Share 31.818 | Quarterly Revenue Growth (0.01) |
The market value of RCI Hospitality Holdings is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of RCI that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of RCI Hospitality's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is RCI Hospitality'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 RCI Hospitality's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect RCI Hospitality'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 RCI Hospitality's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if RCI Hospitality is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, RCI Hospitality'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.