CPF Strangle Strategy
CPF (Central Pacific Financial Corp.), in the Financial Services sector, (Banks - Regional industry), listed on NYSE.
Central Pacific Financial Corp. operates as the holding company for Central Pacific Bank that provides commercial banking products and services to businesses, professionals, and individuals in the United States. It offers various deposit products and services, including personal and business checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and time certificates of deposit. The company's lending activities comprise commercial loans, financial and agricultural loans, commercial and residential mortgages, and construction loans to small and medium-sized companies, business professionals, and real estate investors and developers, as well as home equity, and consumer loans to local homebuyers and individuals. It also provides debit cards, internet and mobile banking, cash management, full-service ATMs, digital banking services, traveler's checks, safe deposit boxes, international banking services, night depository facilities, foreign exchange and wire transfers, trust services, and retail brokerage services. In addition, the company offers wealth management products and services, including non-deposit investment products, annuities, insurance, investment management, asset custody, and general consultation and planning services. As of December 31, 2021, it operated 30 branches and 69 automated teller machines in the state of Hawaii.
CPF (Central Pacific Financial Corp.) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Banks - Regional, with a market capitalization of approximately $878.6M, a trailing P/E of 11.00, a beta of 0.85 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 25.62-35.41, average daily share volume of 165K, a public-listing history dating back to 1987, approximately 697 full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how CPF stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.85 places CPF roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 11.00 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price. CPF pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a strangle on CPF?
A long strangle buys an OTM call and an OTM put at offset strikes, cheaper than a straddle but requiring a larger underlying move to profit since both wings start out-of-the-money.
Current CPF snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $33.78, ATM IV 33.60%, IV rank 6.75%, expected move 9.63%. The strangle on CPF 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 strangle structure on CPF specifically: CPF IV at 33.60% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a CPF strangle, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 9.63% (roughly $3.25 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 CPF expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on CPF should anchor to the underlying notional of $33.78 per share and to the trader's directional view on CPF stock.
CPF strangle setup
The CPF strangle below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With CPF near $33.78, the first option leg uses a $35.47 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed CPF 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 CPF shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $35.47 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $32.09 | N/A |
CPF strangle 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 put strike minus the combined debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached anywhere between the two OTM strikes). Two breakevens at call-strike plus debit and put-strike minus debit.
CPF strangle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the strangle on CPF. 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 strangle on CPF
Strangles on CPF are the cheaper cousin of the straddle - traders use them when they want a large directional move but are willing to give up the inner-strike sensitivity in exchange for a lower up-front debit on the CPF chain.
CPF thesis for this strangle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for CPF extends from approximately $30.53 on the downside to $37.03 on the upside. A CPF long strangle is the OTM cousin of the straddle: lower up-front cost but the underlying has to travel further past either OTM strike before the position turns profitable at expiration. Current CPF IV rank near 6.75% 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 CPF at 33.60%. As a Financial Services name, CPF options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to CPF-specific events.
CPF strangle positions are structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium, OTM); 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. CPF positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move CPF alongside the broader basket even when CPF-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current CPF chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a strangle on CPF?
- A strangle on CPF is the strangle strategy applied to CPF (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium, OTM): A long strangle buys an OTM call and an OTM put at offset strikes, cheaper than a straddle but requiring a larger underlying move to profit since both wings start out-of-the-money. With CPF stock trading near $33.78, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed CPF chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are CPF strangle max profit and max loss calculated?
- Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the put strike minus the combined debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached anywhere between the two OTM strikes). Two breakevens at call-strike plus debit and put-strike minus debit. For the CPF strangle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 33.60%), 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 CPF strangle?
- The breakeven for the CPF strangle 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 CPF market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 9.63%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a strangle on CPF?
- Strangles on CPF are the cheaper cousin of the straddle - traders use them when they want a large directional move but are willing to give up the inner-strike sensitivity in exchange for a lower up-front debit on the CPF chain.
- How does current CPF implied volatility affect this strangle?
- CPF ATM IV is at 33.60% with IV rank near 6.75%, 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.