ICL Israel Stock Options
| ICL Stock | USD 5.07 0.05 1.00% |
ICL Israel's latest option contracts expiring on 2024-12-20 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.82 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.57 over 5 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying 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 0.02 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2024-12-20 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows ICL Israel'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. ICL Israel's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for ICL Israel's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on ICL Israel
Analyzing ICL Israel's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in ICL Israel regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when ICL Israel's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money ICL Israel's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with ICL Israel's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in ICL Israel Chemicals. 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.
ICL Israel Chemicals In The Money Call Balance
When ICL Israel's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against ICL Israel Chemicals stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying ICL Israel'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 ICL Israel Chemicals 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.
ICL Current Options Market Mood
ICL Israel'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 ICL 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 ICL Israel's options investors are not very successful. ICL Israel'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 ICL contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that ICL Israel Chemicals will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0513% per day over the life of the 2024-12-20 option contract. With ICL Israel trading at USD 5.07, that is roughly USD 0.002598. If you think that the market is fully incorporating ICL Israel's daily price movement you should consider buying ICL Israel Chemicals options at the current volatility level of 0.82%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing ICL Israel 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" ICL calls. Remember, the seller must deliver ICL Israel Chemicals stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
ICL Israel Option Chain
When ICL Israel's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against ICL Israel Chemicals 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.
ICL Israel's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on ICL. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for ICL. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a ICL Israel 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 | ICL Option Call 20-12-2024 2 | 21 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 2.32 | In |
Call | ICL Option Call 20-12-2024 5 | 330 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.2 | In |
Call | ICL Option Call 20-12-2024 7 | 91 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.1 | 0.05 | Out |
Put | ICL Option Put 20-12-2024 2 | 10 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.05 | 0.05 | Out |
Put | ICL Option Put 20-12-2024 5 | 242 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.1 | Out |
ICL Israel Selling And Marketing Expenses Over Time
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ICL Israel Market Cap Over Time
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ICL Total Stockholder Equity
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ICL Israel Corporate Directors
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| Reem Aminoach | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Ruth Ralbag | External Independent Director | Profile | |
| Lior Reitblatt | Independent Director | Profile |
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in ICL Israel Chemicals. 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 Portfolio Backtesting module to avoid under-diversification and over-optimization by backtesting your portfolios.
Is Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals 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 ICL Israel. If investors know ICL 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 ICL Israel 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 (0.18) | Dividend Share 0.2 | Earnings Share 0.31 | Revenue Per Share 5.373 | Quarterly Revenue Growth (0.06) |
The market value of ICL Israel Chemicals is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of ICL that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of ICL Israel's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is ICL Israel'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 ICL Israel's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect ICL Israel'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 ICL Israel's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if ICL Israel is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, ICL Israel'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.