United Natural Stock Options
| UNFI Stock | USD 28.59 1.00 3.62% |
United Natural's latest option contracts expiring on January 17th 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.76. The United Natural option chain provides detailed quote and price information for the current United Natural Foods option contracts. It shows all of United Natural's listed puts, calls, expiration dates, strike prices, and other pricing information.
United Natural Maximum Pain Price Across 2025-01-17 Option Contracts
United Natural'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 United Natural
Analyzing United Natural's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in United Natural regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when United Natural's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money United Natural's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with United Natural's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
United Natural Foods In The Money Call Balance
When United Natural's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against United Natural Foods stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying United Natural'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 United Natural Foods 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.
United Current Options Market Mood
United Natural'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 United 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
Unfortunately, most United Natural's options investors are not very successful. United Natural'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 United contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that United Natural Foods will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0475% per day over the life of the 2025-01-17 option contract. With United Natural trading at USD 28.59, that is roughly USD 0.0136. If you think that the market is fully incorporating United Natural's daily price movement you should consider buying United Natural Foods options at the current volatility level of 0.76%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing United Natural 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" United calls. Remember, the seller must deliver United Natural Foods stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
United Natural Option Chain
When United Natural's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against United Natural Foods 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.
United Natural's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on United. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for United. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a United Natural 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 | UNFI250117C00013000 | 0 | 13.0 | 6.6 - 10.1 | 6.6 | In |
Call | UNFI250117C00014000 | 0 | 14.0 | 5.6 - 9.4 | 5.6 | In |
Call | UNFI250117C00015000 | 0 | 15.0 | 5.0 - 8.1 | 5.0 | In |
Call | UNFI250117C00016000 | 0 | 16.0 | 3.8 - 7.7 | 3.8 | In |
Call | UNFI250117C00017000 | 0 | 17.0 | 3.3 - 6.9 | 3.3 | In |
Call | UNFI250117C00018000 | 0 | 18.0 | 2.15 - 6.1 | 2.15 | In |
Call | UNFI250117C00019000 | 0 | 19.0 | 2.15 - 4.7 | 2.15 | In |
Call | UNFI250117C00020000 | 0 | 20.0 | 2.55 - 4.0 | 2.55 | In |
Call | UNFI250117C00021000 | 0 | 21.0 | 2.05 - 2.3 | 2.05 | In |
Call | UNFI250117C00022000 | 0 | 22.0 | 0.6 - 2.5 | 0.6 | |
Put | UNFI250117P00013000 | 0 | 13.0 | 0.0 - 1.25 | 1.25 | |
Put | UNFI250117P00014000 | 0 | 14.0 | 0.0 - 1.25 | 1.25 | |
Put | UNFI250117P00015000 | 0 | 15.0 | 0.0 - 0.35 | 0.35 | |
Put | UNFI250117P00016000 | 0 | 16.0 | 0.0 - 0.35 | 0.35 | |
Put | UNFI250117P00017000 | 0 | 17.0 | 0.3 - 0.5 | 0.3 | |
Put | UNFI250117P00018000 | 0 | 18.0 | 0.4 - 0.65 | 0.4 | |
Put | UNFI250117P00019000 | 0 | 19.0 | 0.7 - 0.95 | 0.7 | |
Put | UNFI250117P00020000 | 0 | 20.0 | 1.05 - 1.3 | 1.05 | |
Put | UNFI250117P00021000 | 0 | 21.0 | 1.45 - 1.7 | 1.45 | |
Put | UNFI250117P00022000 | 0 | 22.0 | 1.95 - 2.2 | 1.95 | In |
United Natural Selling And Marketing Expenses Over Time
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United Natural Corporate Directors
| Eric Artz | Independent Director | Profile | |
| James Muehlbauer | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Daphne Dufresne | Independent Director | Profile | |
| James Heffernan | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail 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 United Natural. If investors know United 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 United Natural 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 (0.89) | Earnings Share (1.57) | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.099 | Return On Assets |
The market value of United Natural Foods is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of United that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of United Natural's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is United Natural'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 United Natural's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect United Natural'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 United Natural's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if United Natural is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, United Natural'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.