Vanda Pharmaceuticals Stock Options
| VNDA Stock | USD 5.04 0.11 2.14% |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals' latest option contracts expiring on 2024-12-20 are carrying combined implied volatility of 2.13 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.08 over 19 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2024-12-20. The total put volume is at 104, with calls trading at the volume of 104. This yields a 0.39 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2024-12-20 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows Vanda Pharmaceuticals' 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. Vanda Pharmaceuticals' open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Vanda Pharmaceuticals' option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals' option chain provides insight into all available option contracts written on Vanda Pharmaceuticals' stock. Investors can see outstanding put and call contracts with pricing information and greeks for a given expiration period. In addition, each of Vanda Pharmaceuticals' stock options below provides a detailed picture of the payoff. Comparing vital and dynamic information of various option contracts across diverse expiration periods will help you make an educated decision on your market timing strategies around investing in a given Vanda option contract.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Vanda Pharmaceuticals
Analyzing Vanda Pharmaceuticals' in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Vanda Pharmaceuticals regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Vanda Pharmaceuticals' options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Vanda Pharmaceuticals' options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Vanda Pharmaceuticals' stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals' stock options are financial instruments that give investors the right to buy or sell shares of Vanda Pharmaceuticals common stock at a specified price for a given time period. Generally speaking, an option to purchase or sell Vanda stock makes it part of the underlying stock when the option's price is tied to the movement of the underlying stock. If Vanda Pharmaceuticals' stock price goes up or down, the stock options follow.
At present, Vanda Pharmaceuticals' 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 680.9 M, whereas Common Stock Total Equity is forecasted to decline to about 39.5 K. Vanda Pharmaceuticals In The Money Call Balance
When Vanda Pharmaceuticals' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Vanda Pharmaceuticals stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Vanda Pharmaceuticals' 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 Vanda Pharmaceuticals 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.
Vanda Current Options Market Mood
Vanda Pharmaceuticals' 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 Vanda 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 Vanda Pharmaceuticals' options investors are not very successful. Vanda Pharmaceuticals' 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 Vanda contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Vanda Pharmaceuticals will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.13% per day over the life of the 2024-12-20 option contract. With Vanda Pharmaceuticals trading at USD 5.04, that is roughly USD 0.006709. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Vanda Pharmaceuticals' daily price movement you should consider buying Vanda Pharmaceuticals options at the current volatility level of 2.13%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Vanda Pharmaceuticals 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" Vanda calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Vanda Pharmaceuticals stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Option Chain
When Vanda Pharmaceuticals' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Vanda Pharmaceuticals 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.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals' option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Vanda. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Vanda. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Vanda Pharmaceuticals 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 | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 1 | 8 | 2024-12-20 | 2.3 - 7.0 | 4.3 | In |
Call | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 2 | 2 | 2024-12-20 | 1.25 - 6.0 | 4.26 | In |
Call | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 3 | 579 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 2.13 | In |
Call | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 4 | 51 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 1.45 | In |
Call | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 5 | 1659 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.33 | In |
Call | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 6 | 2076 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.05 | Out |
Call | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 7 | 988 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.05 | Out |
Call | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 8 | 40 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.5 | 0.1 | Out |
Call | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 9 | 118 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.5 | 0.1 | Out |
Call | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 10 | 6 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.5 | 0.03 | Out |
Call | VNDA Option Call 20-12-2024 11 | 75 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.75 | 0.08 | Out |
Put | VNDA Option Put 20-12-2024 2 | 16 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.5 | 0.05 | Out |
Put | VNDA Option Put 20-12-2024 3 | 7 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.3 | 0.1 | Out |
Put | VNDA Option Put 20-12-2024 4 | 78 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.05 | Out |
Put | VNDA Option Put 20-12-2024 5 | 278 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.25 | Out |
Put | VNDA Option Put 20-12-2024 6 | 57 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 1.03 | In |
Put | VNDA Option Put 20-12-2024 8 | 3 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 2.5 | 1.98 | In |
Put | VNDA Option Put 20-12-2024 9 | 1 | 2024-12-20 | 2.85 - 4.0 | 4.0 | In |
Put | VNDA Option Put 20-12-2024 11 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 6.2 - 8.4 | 6.8 | In |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Market Cap Over Time
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Vanda Pharmaceuticals Corporate Management
| Scott Howell | Chief Officer | Profile | |
| Mihael MD | President, Founder | Profile | |
| Kevin Moran | CFO VP | Profile | |
| Elizabeth Every | Head Affairs | Profile | |
| Joakim Wijkstrom | Chief Marketing Officer | Profile |
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Is Biotechnology 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 Vanda Pharmaceuticals. If investors know Vanda 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 Vanda Pharmaceuticals 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 (0.96) | Earnings Share (0.19) | Revenue Per Share 3.293 | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.228 | Return On Assets (0.04) |
The market value of Vanda Pharmaceuticals is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Vanda that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Vanda Pharmaceuticals' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Vanda Pharmaceuticals' 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 Vanda Pharmaceuticals' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Vanda Pharmaceuticals' 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 Vanda Pharmaceuticals' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Vanda Pharmaceuticals is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Vanda Pharmaceuticals' 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.