Farmers Merchants Stock Options
| FMAO Stock | USD 26.12 0.06 0.23% |
Farmers Merchants' latest option contracts expiring on October 17th 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 1.26. The Farmers Merchants option chain provides detailed quote and price information for the current Farmers Merchants Bancorp option contracts. It shows all of Farmers Merchants' listed puts, calls, expiration dates, strike prices, and other pricing information.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Farmers Merchants
Analyzing Farmers Merchants' in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Farmers Merchants regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Farmers Merchants' options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Farmers Merchants' options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Farmers Merchants' stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Please note that buying 'in-the-money' options on Farmers Merchants lessens the impact of time decay, as they carry both intrinsic and time value. So, even if Farmers Merchants' 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 Farmers Merchants 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 Farmers Stock moves the wrong way.
Farmers Merchants Bancorp In The Money Call Balance
When Farmers Merchants' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Farmers Merchants Bancorp stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Farmers Merchants' 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 Farmers Merchants Bancorp 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.
Farmers Current Options Market Mood
Farmers Merchants' 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 Farmers 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 Farmers Merchants' options investors are not very successful. Farmers Merchants' 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 Farmers contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Farmers Merchants Bancorp will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0788% per day over the life of the 2025-10-17 option contract. With Farmers Merchants trading at USD 26.12, that is roughly USD 0.0206. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Farmers Merchants' daily price movement you should consider buying Farmers Merchants Bancorp options at the current volatility level of 1.26%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
Purchasing Farmers Merchants 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" Farmers calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Farmers Merchants Bancorp stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Farmers Merchants Option Chain
When Farmers Merchants' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Farmers Merchants Bancorp 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.
Farmers Merchants' option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Farmers. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Farmers. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Farmers Merchants 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 | FMAO251017C00035000 | 0 | 35.0 | 0.0 - 4.6 | 4.6 | |
Call | FMAO251017C00030000 | 0 | 30.0 | 0.0 - 4.7 | 4.7 | |
Call | FMAO251017C00025000 | 0 | 25.0 | 1.4 - 5.0 | 1.4 | In |
Call | FMAO251017C00022500 | 0 | 22.5 | 3.3 - 6.5 | 3.3 | In |
Call | FMAO251017C00020000 | 0 | 20.0 | 5.6 - 8.6 | 5.6 | In |
Call | FMAO251017C00017500 | 0 | 17.5 | 7.8 - 11.3 | 7.8 | In |
Call | FMAO251017C00015000 | 0 | 15.0 | 10.3 - 13.6 | 10.3 | In |
Call | FMAO251017C00012500 | 0 | 12.5 | 11.5 - 16.0 | 11.5 | In |
Put | FMAO251017P00035000 | 0 | 35.0 | 8.1 - 10.0 | 8.1 | In |
Put | FMAO251017P00030000 | 0 | 30.0 | 3.2 - 5.4 | 3.2 | In |
Put | FMAO251017P00025000 | 0 | 25.0 | 0.0 - 2.45 | 2.45 | |
Put | FMAO251017P00022500 | 0 | 22.5 | 0.0 - 4.8 | 4.8 | |
Put | FMAO251017P00020000 | 0 | 20.0 | 0.0 - 4.8 | 4.8 | |
Put | FMAO251017P00017500 | 0 | 17.5 | 0.0 - 4.8 | 4.8 | |
Put | FMAO251017P00015000 | 0 | 15.0 | 0.0 - 4.6 | 4.6 | |
Put | FMAO251017P00012500 | 0 | 12.5 | 0.0 - 4.6 | 4.6 |
Farmers Merchants Corporate Management
| Alexis Smith | Senior Officer | Profile | |
| David Gerken | Executive Officer | Profile | |
| Michael Schnitkey | Senior Manager | Profile | |
| Benet Rupp | Executive Officer | Profile | |
| Tim Carsey | Senior Officer | Profile |
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Is Regional Banks 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 Farmers Merchants. If investors know Farmers 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 Farmers Merchants 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 0.348 | Dividend Share 0.885 | Earnings Share 2.16 | Revenue Per Share 8.087 | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.184 |
The market value of Farmers Merchants Bancorp is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Farmers that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Farmers Merchants' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Farmers Merchants' 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 Farmers Merchants' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Farmers Merchants' 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 Farmers Merchants' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Farmers Merchants is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Farmers Merchants' 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.