CIGI Long Call Strategy
CIGI (Colliers International Group Inc.), in the Real Estate sector, (Real Estate - Services industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Colliers International Group Inc. provides commercial real estate professional and investment management services to corporate and institutional clients in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers sales brokerage services, including real estate sales, debt origination and placement, equity capital raising, market value opinions, acquisition advisory, and transaction management services; and landlord and tenant representation services. The company provides outsourcing and advisory services, such as corporate and workplace solutions; valuation and advisory services; workplace strategy services; loan servicing; property marketing; research services; and engineering design services for property and building, infrastructure, transportation, environmental and telecommunications end-markets. It also offers property management services comprising building operations and maintenance, facilities management, lease administration, property accounting and financial reporting, contract management and, construction management; and project management services, which include bid document review, construction monitoring and delivery management, contract administration and integrated cost control, development management, facility and engineering functionality, milestone and performance monitoring, quality assurance, risk management and strategic project consulting. In addition, the company provides investment management services that consists of asset management advisory and administration, transaction, and incentive services. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
CIGI (Colliers International Group Inc.) trades in the Real Estate sector, specifically Real Estate - Services, with a market capitalization of approximately $4.91B, a trailing P/E of 42.64, a beta of 1.26 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 94.15-171.51, average daily share volume of 360K, a public-listing history dating back to 1995, approximately 23K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how CIGI stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 1.26 places CIGI roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 42.64 is on the rich side, which tends to correlate with higher earnings-window IV expansion as the market debates whether forward growth supports the multiple. CIGI pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a long call on CIGI?
A long call buys upside exposure with a fixed maximum loss equal to the premium paid; profit accrues if the underlying closes above the strike plus premium at expiration.
Current CIGI snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $92.73, ATM IV 36.60%, IV rank 5.59%, expected move 10.49%. The long call on CIGI 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 long call structure on CIGI specifically: CIGI IV at 36.60% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a CIGI long call, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 10.49% (roughly $9.73 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 CIGI expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on CIGI should anchor to the underlying notional of $92.73 per share and to the trader's directional view on CIGI stock.
CIGI long call setup
The CIGI long call below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With CIGI near $92.73, the first option leg uses a $95.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed CIGI 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 CIGI shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $95.00 | $2.95 |
CIGI long call risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$295.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$295.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $97.95
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- Unbounded
Max profit is unbounded; max loss equals the premium paid times 100. Breakeven is strike plus premium.
CIGI long call payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the long call on CIGI. 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% | -$295.00 |
| $20.51 | -77.9% | -$295.00 |
| $41.01 | -55.8% | -$295.00 |
| $61.52 | -33.7% | -$295.00 |
| $82.02 | -11.6% | -$295.00 |
| $102.52 | +10.6% | +$457.01 |
| $123.02 | +32.7% | +$2,507.21 |
| $143.52 | +54.8% | +$4,557.41 |
| $164.03 | +76.9% | +$6,607.61 |
| $184.53 | +99.0% | +$8,657.81 |
When traders use long call on CIGI
Long calls on CIGI express a bullish thesis with defined risk; traders use them ahead of CIGI catalysts (earnings, product launches, macro events) when the expected upside justifies the premium and theta decay.
CIGI thesis for this long call
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for CIGI extends from approximately $83.00 on the downside to $102.46 on the upside. A CIGI long call expresses a directional view that the underlying closes above the strike plus premium at expiration, ideally with implied volatility holding or expanding to preserve extrinsic value through the hold period. Current CIGI IV rank near 5.59% 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 CIGI at 36.60%. As a Real Estate name, CIGI options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to CIGI-specific events.
CIGI long call positions are structurally 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. CIGI positions also carry Real Estate sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move CIGI alongside the broader basket even when CIGI-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a long call on CIGI are particularly exposed to IV-crush risk through scheduled events (earnings, FDA decisions, central-bank meetings) where IV typically contracts post-event regardless of the directional outcome. Always rebuild the position from current CIGI chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a long call on CIGI?
- A long call on CIGI is the long call strategy applied to CIGI (stock). The strategy is structurally bullish: A long call buys upside exposure with a fixed maximum loss equal to the premium paid; profit accrues if the underlying closes above the strike plus premium at expiration. With CIGI stock trading near $92.73, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed CIGI chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are CIGI long call max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit is unbounded; max loss equals the premium paid times 100. Breakeven is strike plus premium. For the CIGI long call priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 36.60%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$295.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a CIGI long call?
- The breakeven for the CIGI long call priced on this page is roughly $97.95 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 CIGI market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 10.49%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a long call on CIGI?
- Long calls on CIGI express a bullish thesis with defined risk; traders use them ahead of CIGI catalysts (earnings, product launches, macro events) when the expected upside justifies the premium and theta decay.
- How does current CIGI implied volatility affect this long call?
- CIGI ATM IV is at 36.60% with IV rank near 5.59%, 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.