AFYA Straddle 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 straddle on AFYA?
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 AFYA snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $13.88, ATM IV 118.50%, IV rank 42.53%, expected move 7.41%. The straddle 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 straddle structure on AFYA specifically: AFYA IV at 118.50% 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 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 straddle setup
The AFYA 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 AFYA near $13.88, the first option leg uses a $13.88 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $13.88 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $13.88 | N/A |
AFYA straddle 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
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.
AFYA straddle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the straddle 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 straddle on AFYA
Straddles on AFYA are pure-volatility plays that profit from large moves in either direction; traders typically buy AFYA straddles ahead of earnings, FDA decisions, or other catalysts where the realized move is expected to exceed the implied move priced into the chain.
AFYA thesis for this straddle
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 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 AFYA IV rank near 42.53% is mid-range against its 1-year distribution, so the IV signal is neutral; the straddle 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 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. 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. Always rebuild the position from current AFYA chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a straddle on AFYA?
- A straddle on AFYA is the straddle strategy applied to AFYA (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 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 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 AFYA straddle 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 straddle?
- The breakeven for the AFYA straddle 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 straddle on AFYA?
- Straddles on AFYA are pure-volatility plays that profit from large moves in either direction; traders typically buy AFYA 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 AFYA implied volatility affect this straddle?
- 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.