Healthcare Services Stock Options

HCSG Stock

USD 14.13 0.02 0.14%

Healthcare Services' option chain provides insight into all available option contracts written on Healthcare Services' stock. Investors can see outstanding put and call contracts with pricing information and greeks for a given expiration period. In addition, each of Healthcare Services' 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 Healthcare option contract. View S&P 500 options

Purchasing Healthcare Services 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" Healthcare calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Healthcare Services Group stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.

In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Healthcare Services

Analyzing Healthcare Services' in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Healthcare Services regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Healthcare Services' options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Healthcare Services' options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Healthcare Services' stock while costing only a fraction of its price.

Healthcare Services' latest option contracts expiring on 2023-06-16 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.0 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.09 over 20 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2023-06-16. The current put volume is at 0, with calls trading at the volume of 0. This yields a 0.0 put-to-call volume ratio. The Healthcare Services option chain provides detailed quote and price information for the current Healthcare Services Group option contracts. It shows all of Healthcare Services' listed puts, calls, expiration dates, strike prices, and other pricing information.

Open Interest Against 2023-06-16 Option Contracts

Healthcare Services option prices can potentially be used to forecast stock returns because most option chains provide information not only about the current prices but also about the future conditions in Healthcare Services' lending market. For example, when Healthcare Services' puts are not actively trading or completely missing in the marketplace, investors can use it to internalize expected shorting costs. So if an investor is writing a put option on Healthcare Services, he or she must hedge the risk by shorting Healthcare Services stock over its option's life.

The chart above shows Healthcare Services' 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. Healthcare Services' open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Healthcare Services' option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.

Healthcare Services' stock options are financial instruments that give investors the right to buy or sell shares of Healthcare Services common stock at a specified price for a given time period. Generally speaking, an option to purchase or sell Healthcare stock makes it part of the underlying stock when the option's price is tied to the movement of the underlying stock. If Healthcare Services' stock price goes up or down, the stock options follow.

Please note that buying 'in-the-money' options on Healthcare Services lessens the impact of time decay, as they carry both intrinsic and time value. So, even if Healthcare Services' value remains static through the expiration date, the investor can sell to close an 'in-the-money' option to avoid a potential loss. However, in-the-money Healthcare Services contracts are usually more expensive to enter than their out-of-the-money counterparts. So keep in mind that while the payoffs on an in-the-money trade can be high, the investors could ultimately experience a more consequential loss if Healthcare Stock moves the wrong way.

The current Net Income Common Stock is estimated to increase to about 53.2 M

Healthcare Services In The Money Call Balance

When Healthcare Services' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Healthcare Services Group stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Healthcare Services' 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 Healthcare Services Group 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.

Healthcare Current Options Market Mood

Healthcare Services' 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 Healthcare 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 Healthcare Services' calls and puts, are not very successful. It is estimated that an average options trader loses somewhere between 80% to 90% of the time. Healthcare Services' 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. Using current Healthcare Services' option volume and open interest to make an investment decision is considered a contrarian-sentiment measure that can be utilized in many timing strategies in both derivative and spot marketplace.

Rule 16 of the current Healthcare contract

Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Healthcare Services Group will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0% per day over the life of the 2023-06-16 option contract. With Healthcare Services trading at USD14.13, that is roughly USD0.0. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Healthcare Services' daily price movement you should consider buying Healthcare Services Group options at the current volatility level of 0.0%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.

Healthcare Services Valuation Risk

Healthcare Services Option Chain

When Healthcare Services' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Healthcare Services Group 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.

2023-06-16 2023-07-21 2023-09-15 2023-12-15

Healthcare Services' option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Healthcare. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Healthcare. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Healthcare Services 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.

		Delta	Gamma	Open Int	Expiration	Current Spread	Last Price
Call	2023-06-16 CALL at $2.5	0.9709	0.003	0	2023-06-16	11.1 - 13.2	0.0	In
Call	2023-06-16 CALL at $5.0	0.9428	0.0086	0	2023-06-16	8.6 - 10.7	0.0	In
Call	2023-06-16 CALL at $7.5	0.9181	0.0186	0	2023-06-16	6.1 - 8.0	0.0	In
Call	2023-06-16 CALL at $10.0	0.8587	0.0398	3	2023-06-16	3.6 - 5.7	3.8	In
Call	2023-06-16 CALL at $12.5	0.7483	0.1004	29	2023-06-16	1.2 - 3.2	1.4	In
Call	2023-06-16 CALL at $15.0	0.222	0.2938	597	2023-06-16	0.05 - 0.2	0.2	Out
Put	2023-06-16 PUT at $15.0	-0.7365	0.2709	18	2023-06-16	0.6 - 1.45	0.95	In
Put	2023-06-16 PUT at $17.5	-0.9094	0.0772	0	2023-06-16	2.95 - 3.9	0.0	In
Put	2023-06-16 PUT at $25.0	-0.938	0.0261	0	2023-06-16	10.5 - 11.4	0.0	In

Healthcare Services Net Income Common Stock Over Time

The amount of net income (loss) for the period due to common shareholders. Typically differs from Net Income to the parent entity due to the deduction of Preferred Dividends.

Net Income Common Stock

Timeline

Healthcare Services Historical Liabilities

While analyzing the current debt level is an essential aspect of forecasting the current year budgeting needs of Healthcare Services, understanding its historical liability is critical in projecting Healthcare Services' future earnings, especially during periods of low and high inflation and deflation. Many analysts look at the trend in assets and liabilities and evaluate how Healthcare Services uses its financing power over time.

Healthcare Services Investors Sentiment

The influence of Healthcare Services' investor sentiment on the probability of its price appreciation or decline could be a good factor in your decision-making process regarding taking a position in Healthcare. The overall investor sentiment generally increases the direction of a stock movement in a one-year investment horizon. However, the impact of investor sentiment on the entire stock market does not have solid backing from leading economists and market statisticians.

Investor biases related to Healthcare Services' public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Healthcare. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Healthcare can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Healthcare Services Group. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.

Healthcare Services' market sentiment shows the aggregated news analyzed to detect positive and negative mentions from the text and comments. The data is normalized to provide daily scores for Healthcare Services' and other traded tickers. The bigger the bubble, the more accurate is the estimated score. Higher bars for a given day show more participation in the average Healthcare Services' news discussions. The higher the estimated score, the more favorable is the investor's outlook on Healthcare Services.

Some investors attempt to determine whether the market's mood is bullish or bearish by monitoring changes in market sentiment. Unlike more traditional methods such as technical analysis, investor sentiment usually refers to the aggregate attitude towards Healthcare Services in the overall investment community. So, suppose investors can accurately measure the market's sentiment. In that case, they can use it for their benefit. For example, some tools to gauge market sentiment could be utilized using contrarian indexes, Healthcare Services' short interest history, or implied volatility extrapolated from Healthcare Services options trading.

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Is Healthcare Services' industry 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 Healthcare Services. If investors know Healthcare 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 Healthcare Services 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

0.133

Dividend Share

0.429

Earnings Share

0.5

Revenue Per Share

22.595

Quarterly Revenue Growth

(0.022)

The market value of Healthcare Services is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Healthcare that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Healthcare Services' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Healthcare Services' 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 Healthcare Services' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Healthcare Services' 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 Healthcare Services' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Healthcare Services is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Healthcare Services' 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.

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Healthcare Services Stock Options

In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Healthcare Services

Open Interest Against 2023-06-16 Option Contracts

Healthcare Services In The Money Call Balance

Healthcare Current Options Market Mood

Put-to-Call Open Interest

Put-to-Call Volume

Rule 16 of the current Healthcare contract

Healthcare Services Option Chain

Healthcare Services Net Income Common Stock Over Time

Healthcare Services Historical Liabilities

Healthcare Services Investors Sentiment

Becoming a Better Investor with Macroaxis

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