AFYA Cash-Secured Put Strategy
AFYA (Afya Limited), in the Consumer Defensive sector, (Education & Training Services industry), listed on NASDAQ.
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. It offers health sciences courses, which comprise medicine, dentistry, nursing, radiology, psychology, pharmacy, physical education, physiotherapy, nutrition, and biomedicine; and degree programs and courses in other subjects and disciplines, including undergraduate and post graduate courses in business administration, accounting, law, civil engineering, industrial engineering, and pedagogy. In addition, the company provides medical postgraduate specialization programs; printed and digital content; and an online medical education platform and practical medical training services. As of December 31, 2021, it operated a network of 46 undergraduate and graduate medical school campuses consisted of 30 undergrad operating units and five approved units; and a network of 2,731 medical school seats that consisted of 2,481 operating seats and 278 approved seats.
AFYA (Afya Limited) trades in the Consumer Defensive sector, specifically Education & Training Services, with a market capitalization of approximately $1.27B, a trailing P/E of 8.36, a beta of 0.39 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 13-19.5, average daily share volume of 98K, a public-listing history dating back to 2019, approximately 5K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how AFYA stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.39 indicates AFYA has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. The trailing P/E of 8.36 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price. AFYA pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a cash-secured put on AFYA?
A cash-secured put sells an out-of-the-money put while holding cash equal to the strike-times-100 obligation, keeping the premium when the underlying stays above the strike.
Current AFYA snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $13.88, ATM IV 118.50%, IV rank 42.53%, expected move 7.41%. The cash-secured put on AFYA 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 34-day expiry.
Why this cash-secured put structure on AFYA specifically: AFYA IV at 118.50% is mid-range versus its 1-year history, so the credit collected on a AFYA cash-secured put sits in line with its long-run distribution, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 7.41% (roughly $1.03 on the underlying). The 34-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated AFYA expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on AFYA should anchor to the underlying notional of $13.88 per share and to the trader's directional view on AFYA stock.
AFYA cash-secured put setup
The AFYA cash-secured put below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With AFYA near $13.88, the first option leg uses a $13.19 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed AFYA chain at a 34-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 AFYA shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell 1 | Put | $13.19 | N/A |
AFYA cash-secured put risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- N/A
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Breakeven(s)
- None on modeled curve
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- N/A
Max profit equals premium times 100; max loss equals strike minus premium times 100 (at zero, assuming assignment). Breakeven is strike minus premium.
AFYA cash-secured put payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the cash-secured put on AFYA. 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.
When traders use cash-secured put on AFYA
Cash-secured puts on AFYA earn premium while a trader waits to acquire AFYA stock at a target strike below the current quote; most attractive when IV is rich and the trader is comfortable owning AFYA.
AFYA thesis for this cash-secured put
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for AFYA extends from approximately $12.85 on the downside to $14.91 on the upside. A AFYA cash-secured put lets a trader earn premium while waiting to acquire AFYA at the strike price; the strategy is most attractive when the trader is comfortable holding the underlying at that level and IV is rich enough to compensate for the assignment risk. Current AFYA IV rank near 42.53% is mid-range against its 1-year distribution, so the IV signal is neutral; the cash-secured put thesis on AFYA should anchor more to the directional view and the expected-move geometry. As a Consumer Defensive name, AFYA options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to AFYA-specific events.
AFYA cash-secured put positions are structurally neutral to slightly bullish; 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. AFYA positions also carry Consumer Defensive sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move AFYA alongside the broader basket even when AFYA-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Short-premium structures like a cash-secured put on AFYA carry tail risk when realized volatility exceeds the implied move; review historical AFYA earnings reactions and macro stress periods before sizing. Always rebuild the position from current AFYA chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a cash-secured put on AFYA?
- A cash-secured put on AFYA is the cash-secured put strategy applied to AFYA (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral to slightly bullish: A cash-secured put sells an out-of-the-money put while holding cash equal to the strike-times-100 obligation, keeping the premium when the underlying stays above the strike. With AFYA stock trading near $13.88, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed AFYA chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are AFYA cash-secured put max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals premium times 100; max loss equals strike minus premium times 100 (at zero, assuming assignment). Breakeven is strike minus premium. For the AFYA cash-secured put priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 118.50%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is unbounded per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a AFYA cash-secured put?
- The breakeven for the AFYA cash-secured put priced on this page is no defined breakeven on the modeled curve 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 AFYA market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 7.41%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a cash-secured put on AFYA?
- Cash-secured puts on AFYA earn premium while a trader waits to acquire AFYA stock at a target strike below the current quote; most attractive when IV is rich and the trader is comfortable owning AFYA.
- How does current AFYA implied volatility affect this cash-secured put?
- AFYA ATM IV is at 118.50% with IV rank near 42.53%, 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.