AEIS Straddle Strategy
AEIS (Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.), in the Industrials sector, (Electrical Equipment & Parts industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (AEIS) is a global leader in the design, production, sale, and support of sophisticated power conversion, measurement, and control systems. The company specializes in plasma power technologies, providing a range of solutions such as direct current (DC), pulsed DC, low-frequency alternating current (LF AC), high-voltage, and radio frequency (RF) power supplies, alongside RF matching networks, RF instrumentation products, and remote plasma sources engineered for reactive gas applications. AEIS also supplies power control modules and thermal instrumentation, which are crucial for processes including rapid thermal processing, chemical vapor deposition, epitaxy, crystal growing, chemical processing, and in the manufacturing of metal, carbon fiber, and glass, as well as various other industrial power requirements. Its portfolio encompasses high-voltage DC-DC products, essential for semiconductor wafer processing and metrology, electrostatic substrate clamping, scientific instrumentation, mass spectrometry, and X-ray systems utilized in industrial and analytical fields. Additionally, low-voltage DC-DC board-mounted solutions are provided, serving applications in healthcare, telecommunications, test and measurement, instrumentation, industrial equipment, and distributed power systems for servers and storage. The company further develops gas sensing and monitoring products for the energy sector, air quality surveillance, and automotive emission testing.
AEIS (Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.) trades in the Industrials sector, specifically Electrical Equipment & Parts, with a market capitalization of approximately $13.24B, a trailing P/E of 68.89, a beta of 1.30 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 128.4-397.44, average daily share volume of 897K, a public-listing history dating back to 1995, approximately 10K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how AEIS stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 1.30 places AEIS roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 68.89 is on the rich side, which tends to correlate with higher earnings-window IV expansion as the market debates whether forward growth supports the multiple. AEIS pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a straddle on AEIS?
A long straddle buys an ATM call and an ATM put at the same strike, profiting from a large move in either direction; max loss equals the combined debit when the underlying pins to the strike at expiration.
Current AEIS snapshot
As of June 30, 2026, spot at $373.67, ATM IV 68.20%, IV rank 52.74%, expected move 19.55%. The straddle on AEIS below is built from the same end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 17-day expiry.
Why this straddle structure on AEIS specifically: AEIS IV at 68.20% is mid-range versus its 1-year history, so strategy selection should anchor more to the directional thesis than to the IV regime, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 19.55% (roughly $73.06 on the underlying). The 17-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated AEIS expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on AEIS should anchor to the underlying notional of $373.67 per share and to the trader's directional view on AEIS stock.
AEIS straddle setup
The AEIS straddle below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With AEIS near $373.67, the first option leg uses a $370.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed AEIS chain at a 17-day expiry; the cross-strike IV skew is reflected directly in the per-leg values rather than approximated. Quantity sizing assumes one contract per option leg (or 100 AEIS shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $370.00 | $24.35 |
| Buy 1 | Put | $370.00 | $19.70 |
AEIS straddle risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$4,405.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$4,225.27
- Breakeven(s)
- $325.95, $414.05
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- Unbounded
Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the strike minus the combined call plus put debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached when the underlying pins to the strike). Two breakevens at strike plus debit and strike minus debit.
AEIS straddle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the straddle on AEIS. Each row is one sampled price point from the computed payoff curve; the full curve uses 200 price points internally before being summarized into 10 rows here.
| Underlying Price | % From Spot | P&L at Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| $0.01 | -100.0% | +$32,594.00 |
| $82.63 | -77.9% | +$24,332.06 |
| $165.25 | -55.8% | +$16,070.12 |
| $247.87 | -33.7% | +$7,808.18 |
| $330.49 | -11.6% | -$453.76 |
| $413.11 | +10.6% | -$94.30 |
| $495.73 | +32.7% | +$8,167.64 |
| $578.35 | +54.8% | +$16,429.58 |
| $660.97 | +76.9% | +$24,691.52 |
| $743.58 | +99.0% | +$32,953.46 |
When traders use straddle on AEIS
Straddles on AEIS are pure-volatility plays that profit from large moves in either direction; traders typically buy AEIS straddles ahead of earnings, FDA decisions, or other catalysts where the realized move is expected to exceed the implied move priced into the chain.
AEIS thesis for this straddle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for AEIS extends from approximately $300.61 on the downside to $446.73 on the upside. A AEIS long straddle is a pure-volatility play: it profits when the underlying moves far enough from the strike in either direction to overcome the combined call plus put debit, regardless of direction. Current AEIS IV rank near 52.74% is mid-range against its 1-year distribution, so the IV signal is neutral; the straddle thesis on AEIS should anchor more to the directional view and the expected-move geometry. As a Industrials name, AEIS options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to AEIS-specific events.
AEIS straddle positions are structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium); the modeled P&L assumes European-style exercise at expiration and ignores early assignment, transaction costs, dividends paid before expiry on the stock leg (when present), and the bid-ask spread on the listed chain. AEIS positions also carry Industrials sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move AEIS alongside the broader basket even when AEIS-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current AEIS chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a straddle on AEIS?
- A straddle on AEIS is the straddle strategy applied to AEIS (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium): A long straddle buys an ATM call and an ATM put at the same strike, profiting from a large move in either direction; max loss equals the combined debit when the underlying pins to the strike at expiration. With AEIS stock trading near $373.67, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed AEIS chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are AEIS straddle max profit and max loss calculated?
- Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the strike minus the combined call plus put debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached when the underlying pins to the strike). Two breakevens at strike plus debit and strike minus debit. For the AEIS straddle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 68.20%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$4,225.27 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a AEIS straddle?
- The breakeven for the AEIS straddle priced on this page is roughly $325.95 and $414.05 at expiration, derived from end-of-day chain premiums. Breakeven is the underlying price at which the strategy's P&L crosses zero ignoring transaction costs and assignment risk. The current AEIS market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 19.55%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a straddle on AEIS?
- Straddles on AEIS are pure-volatility plays that profit from large moves in either direction; traders typically buy AEIS straddles ahead of earnings, FDA decisions, or other catalysts where the realized move is expected to exceed the implied move priced into the chain.
- How does current AEIS implied volatility affect this straddle?
- AEIS ATM IV is at 68.20% with IV rank near 52.74%, which is mid-range against its 1-year history. Strategy selection depends more on directional thesis and expected move than on a strong IV signal.