AFYA - Afya Limited
Afya Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a medical education group in Brazil. It offers educational products and services, including medical schools, medical residency preparatory courses, graduate courses, and other programs to lifelong medical learners enrolled across its distribution network, as well as to third-party medical schools. The company also provides digital health services, such as subscription-based mobile app and website portal that focuses on assisting health professionals and students with clinical decision-making through tools, such as medical calculators, charts, and updated content, as well as prescriptions, clinical scores, medical procedures and laboratory exams, and others.
As of May 15, 2026: spot at $13.88, ATM IV 118.5%, net GEX $112.
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Education & Training Services
- Market Cap
- $1.27B
- P/E Ratio
- 8.36
- Beta
- 0.39
- 52-Week Range
- 13-19.5
- Dividend Yield
- $0.66
- CEO
- Virgilio Deloy Capobianco Gibbon
- Employees
- 5,260
- IPO Date
- Jul 19, 2019
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
What AFYA Looks Like to Options Traders Today
IV rank of 42.5% sits near the 1-year median, where strategy choice depends on directional conviction and the event calendar rather than vol regime alone; positive net gamma exposure ($112) means dealers hedge against trend, damping realized volatility and biasing price toward heavy-OI strikes; the 25-delta skew (0.016) is roughly flat across the wings.
What This Page Covers
The AFYA overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure. Corporate data is on fundamentals, earnings, analyst ratings, and insider trading.
Frequently asked AFYA overview questions
- What is AFYA?
- AFYA is the ticker symbol for Afya Limited, a listed security. Afya Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a medical education group in Brazil. It offers educational products and services, including medical schools, medical residency preparatory courses, graduate courses, and other programs to lifelong medical learners enrolled across its distribution network, as well as to third-party medical schools. Listed on NASDAQ. AFYA is the equity ticker shown on this page; equity options traders use the security for directional, volatility, and income strategies via the listed options chain.
- What does the AFYA options snapshot look like today?
- As of May 15, 2026, the AFYA options snapshot shows spot at $13.88, ATM IV 118.5%, IV rank 42.5%, net GEX $112, expected move 7.41%. The full options chain, Greeks by strike and expiration, per-strike open-interest distribution, dealer gamma and delta exposure, and the volatility skew surface are linked from this overview page. Each per-metric route refreshes once per trading session and reflects the most recent close-of-business listed-options state.
- What are AFYA's key statistics?
- Afya Limited (AFYA) carries a market capitalization of $1.27B, trailing P/E ratio of 8.36, beta of 0.39 relative to the broader market, 52-week range of 13-19.5. Full income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and TTM ratio history is on the per-ticker fundamentals page; daily price history and 52-week levels are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the options market prices implied volatility around earnings windows and capital events.
- What sector or industry does AFYA belong to?
- Afya Limited operates in the Consumer Defensive sector, in the Education & Training Services industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare AFYA's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the AFYA data on this page?
- The options snapshot above is dated May 15, 2026 and refreshes once per session, with all per-strike Greeks and exposure aggregates recomputed at the daily close. Company-profile fields (sector, industry, market cap, P/E, IPO date) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. Financials and earnings refresh as 10-K and 10-Q filings are parsed (typically within several business days of the actual report). FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence (daily for short volume, bi-monthly for short interest, weekly for the OTC volume file, twice-monthly for SEC FTD).