AVBC Butterfly Strategy
AVBC (Avidia Bancorp, Inc.), in the Financial Services sector, (Banks - Regional industry), listed on NYSE.
Avidia Bancorp, Inc., which serves as the parent entity for Avidia Bank, delivers a comprehensive array of financial products and services to individual consumers and corporate clients alike. Its deposit offerings include diverse checking accounts (both interest and non-interest-bearing), savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. The company also extends a broad spectrum of credit facilities, such as commercial and industrial loans, various residential mortgages (including single-family, home equity, and second mortgages), multi-family and commercial real estate financing, construction and land development loans, alongside consumer loans like auto and general business term loans. Furthermore, Avidia provides payment processing solutions and strategically invests in securities, primarily composed of U.S. Treasury, government agency, and municipal bonds. Established in 1869, the corporation maintains its principal office in Hudson, Massachusetts.
AVBC (Avidia Bancorp, Inc.) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Banks - Regional, with a market capitalization of approximately $444.5M, a trailing P/E of 23.38, a beta of -0.49 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 14.31-22.897, average daily share volume of 99K, a public-listing history dating back to 2025, approximately 241 full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how AVBC stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of -0.49 indicates AVBC has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. AVBC pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a butterfly on AVBC?
A long call butterfly buys one lower-strike call, sells two ATM calls, and buys one higher-strike call, paying a small net debit for a defined-risk position that maxes out if the underlying pins the middle strike at expiration.
AVBC snapshot
As of August 14, 2026, spot at $22.13, ATM IV 26.60%, expected move 7.63%. The butterfly on AVBC below is built from the end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 35-day expiry.
Why this butterfly structure on AVBC specifically: IV rank is unavailable in the current snapshot, so regime-based timing for AVBC is inferred from ATM IV at 26.60% alone, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 7.63% (roughly $1.69 on the underlying). The 35-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated AVBC expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on AVBC should anchor to the underlying notional of $22.13 per share and to the trader's directional view on AVBC stock.
AVBC butterfly setup
The AVBC butterfly below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With AVBC at $22.13 on that close, the first option leg uses a $21.02 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed AVBC chain at a 35-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 AVBC shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $21.02 | N/A |
| Sell 2 | Call | $22.13 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Call | $23.24 | N/A |
AVBC butterfly 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 the wing width minus net debit times 100 (reached when the underlying pins the middle strike); max loss equals the net debit times 100. Two breakevens at lower-wing plus debit and upper-wing minus debit.
AVBC butterfly payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the butterfly on AVBC. 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 butterfly on AVBC
Butterflies on AVBC are pinning bets - traders use them when they expect AVBC to settle near a specific level at expiration (often the prior close, a round number, or the max-pain strike) and want defined-risk exposure to that outcome.
AVBC thesis for this butterfly
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for AVBC extends from approximately $20.44 on the downside to $23.82 on the upside. A AVBC long call butterfly is a pinning play: it pays maximum at the middle strike if AVBC settles there at expiration, with the wing legs capping both the cost and the maximum loss to the net debit. As a Financial Services name, AVBC options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to AVBC-specific events.
AVBC butterfly positions are structurally neutral / pin (limited-risk, limited-reward); 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. AVBC positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move AVBC alongside the broader basket even when AVBC-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current AVBC chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a butterfly on AVBC?
- A butterfly on AVBC is the butterfly strategy applied to AVBC (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / pin (limited-risk, limited-reward): A long call butterfly buys one lower-strike call, sells two ATM calls, and buys one higher-strike call, paying a small net debit for a defined-risk position that maxes out if the underlying pins the middle strike at expiration. With AVBC stock at $22.13 on the most recent close, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed AVBC chain strike and the premiums come straight from that session's bid/ask midpoint.
- How are AVBC butterfly max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals the wing width minus net debit times 100 (reached when the underlying pins the middle strike); max loss equals the net debit times 100. Two breakevens at lower-wing plus debit and upper-wing minus debit. For the AVBC butterfly priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 26.60%), 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 AVBC butterfly?
- The breakeven for the AVBC butterfly priced on this page is no defined breakeven on the modeled curve at expiration, derived from the end-of-day chain's premiums. Breakeven is the underlying price at which the strategy's P&L crosses zero ignoring transaction costs and assignment risk. The AVBC market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move in the same options snapshot is approximately 7.63%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a butterfly on AVBC?
- Butterflies on AVBC are pinning bets - traders use them when they expect AVBC to settle near a specific level at expiration (often the prior close, a round number, or the max-pain strike) and want defined-risk exposure to that outcome.
- How does current AVBC implied volatility affect this butterfly?
- Current AVBC ATM IV is 26.60%; IV rank context is unavailable in the current snapshot.