CHH Straddle Strategy
CHH (Choice Hotels International, Inc.), in the Consumer Cyclical sector, (Travel Lodging industry), listed on NYSE.
Choice Hotels International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a hotel franchisor worldwide. The company operates in Hotel Franchising and Corporate & Other segments. It franchises lodging properties under the brand names of Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion, Clarion Pointe, Sleep Inn, Econo Lodge, Rodeway Inn, MainStay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel, WoodSpring Suites, Everhome Suites, Cambria Hotels, and Ascend Hotel Collection. The company also develops and markets cloud-based property management software to non-franchised hoteliers. As of March 31, 2022, it had approximately 7,000 hotels with approximately 600,000 rooms in 35 countries and territories. Choice Hotels International, Inc. was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.
CHH (Choice Hotels International, Inc.) trades in the Consumer Cyclical sector, specifically Travel Lodging, with a market capitalization of approximately $4.87B, a trailing P/E of 14.28, a beta of 0.65 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 84.04-136.45, average daily share volume of 626K, a public-listing history dating back to 1996, approximately 2K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how CHH stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.65 indicates CHH has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. CHH pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a straddle on CHH?
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 CHH snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $107.49, ATM IV 35.80%, IV rank 4.58%, expected move 10.26%. The straddle on CHH 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 CHH specifically: CHH IV at 35.80% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a CHH straddle, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 10.26% (roughly $11.03 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 CHH expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on CHH should anchor to the underlying notional of $107.49 per share and to the trader's directional view on CHH stock.
CHH straddle setup
The CHH 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 CHH near $107.49, the first option leg uses a $105.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed CHH 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 CHH shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $105.00 | $6.15 |
| Buy 1 | Put | $105.00 | $3.65 |
CHH straddle risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$980.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$959.44
- Breakeven(s)
- $95.20, $114.80
- 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.
CHH straddle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the straddle on CHH. 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% | +$9,519.00 |
| $23.78 | -77.9% | +$7,142.45 |
| $47.54 | -55.8% | +$4,765.89 |
| $71.31 | -33.7% | +$2,389.34 |
| $95.07 | -11.6% | +$12.79 |
| $118.84 | +10.6% | +$403.76 |
| $142.60 | +32.7% | +$2,780.32 |
| $166.37 | +54.8% | +$5,156.87 |
| $190.13 | +76.9% | +$7,533.42 |
| $213.90 | +99.0% | +$9,909.97 |
When traders use straddle on CHH
Straddles on CHH are pure-volatility plays that profit from large moves in either direction; traders typically buy CHH straddles ahead of earnings, FDA decisions, or other catalysts where the realized move is expected to exceed the implied move priced into the chain.
CHH thesis for this straddle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for CHH extends from approximately $96.46 on the downside to $118.52 on the upside. A CHH 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 CHH IV rank near 4.58% sits in the lower third of its 1-year distribution, where IV often re-expands toward the mean; this favors premium-buying structures and disadvantages premium-selling structures on CHH at 35.80%. As a Consumer Cyclical name, CHH options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to CHH-specific events.
CHH 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. CHH positions also carry Consumer Cyclical sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move CHH alongside the broader basket even when CHH-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current CHH chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a straddle on CHH?
- A straddle on CHH is the straddle strategy applied to CHH (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 CHH stock trading near $107.49, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed CHH chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are CHH 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 CHH straddle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 35.80%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$959.44 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a CHH straddle?
- The breakeven for the CHH straddle priced on this page is roughly $95.20 and $114.80 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 CHH market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 10.26%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a straddle on CHH?
- Straddles on CHH are pure-volatility plays that profit from large moves in either direction; traders typically buy CHH 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 CHH implied volatility affect this straddle?
- CHH ATM IV is at 35.80% with IV rank near 4.58%, which is on the low end of its 1-year range. Premium-buying structures (long call, long put, debit spreads) are relatively cheap in this regime; premium-selling structures collect less credit per unit risk.