CPRT Strangle Strategy
CPRT (Copart, Inc.), in the Industrials sector, (Specialty Business Services industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Copart, Inc. provides online auctions and vehicle remarketing services in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Finland, Oman, the Republic of Ireland, and Bahrain. It offers a range of services to process and sell vehicles over the internet through its virtual bidding third generation internet auction-style sales technology. The company's services include online seller access, salvage estimation, estimating, end-of-life vehicle processing, transportation, vehicle inspection stations, on-demand reporting, title processing and express, loan payoff, flexible vehicle processing programs, buy it now, sales process, and dealer services. Its services also comprise services to sell vehicles through BluCar, CashForCars.com, CashForCars.ca, CashForCars.de, CashForCars.co.uk, and Cash-for-cars.ie; Copart Recycling service, which allows the public to purchase parts from salvaged and end-of-life vehicles; and copart 360, a proprietary technology that captures clear 360-degree views of interiors and exteriors of cars, trucks, and vans. In addition, it provides IntelliSeller, an automated tool leveraging its vehicle and sales data to assist its sellers in making vital auction decisions; Purple Wave Inc., that offers wholesale construction, agriculture, and fleet remarketing services through no-reserve online auctions; wholesale powersport vehicle remarketing services through live and online auction platforms. The company sells its products to licensed vehicle dismantlers, rebuilders, repair licensees, used vehicle dealers, and exporters, as well as to the public.
CPRT (Copart, Inc.) trades in the Industrials sector, specifically Specialty Business Services, with a market capitalization of approximately $31.73B, a trailing P/E of 20.46, a beta of 1.02 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 32.2-63.85, average daily share volume of 9.0M, a public-listing history dating back to 1994, approximately 14K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how CPRT stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 1.02 places CPRT roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline.
What is a strangle on CPRT?
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 CPRT snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $32.45, ATM IV 40.60%, IV rank 8.02%, expected move 11.64%. The strangle on CPRT 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 CPRT specifically: CPRT IV at 40.60% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a CPRT strangle, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 11.64% (roughly $3.78 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 CPRT expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on CPRT should anchor to the underlying notional of $32.45 per share and to the trader's directional view on CPRT stock.
CPRT strangle setup
The CPRT 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 CPRT near $32.45, the first option leg uses a $35.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed CPRT 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 CPRT shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $35.00 | $0.75 |
| Buy 1 | Put | $30.00 | $0.68 |
CPRT strangle risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$142.50
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$142.50
- Breakeven(s)
- $28.58, $36.43
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- Unbounded
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.
CPRT strangle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the strangle on CPRT. 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% | +$2,856.50 |
| $7.18 | -77.9% | +$2,139.12 |
| $14.36 | -55.8% | +$1,421.75 |
| $21.53 | -33.6% | +$704.37 |
| $28.71 | -11.5% | -$13.01 |
| $35.88 | +10.6% | -$54.62 |
| $43.05 | +32.7% | +$662.76 |
| $50.23 | +54.8% | +$1,380.14 |
| $57.40 | +76.9% | +$2,097.52 |
| $64.57 | +99.0% | +$2,814.89 |
When traders use strangle on CPRT
Strangles on CPRT 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 CPRT chain.
CPRT thesis for this strangle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for CPRT extends from approximately $28.67 on the downside to $36.23 on the upside. A CPRT 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 CPRT IV rank near 8.02% 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 CPRT at 40.60%. As a Industrials name, CPRT options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to CPRT-specific events.
CPRT 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. CPRT positions also carry Industrials sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move CPRT alongside the broader basket even when CPRT-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current CPRT chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a strangle on CPRT?
- A strangle on CPRT is the strangle strategy applied to CPRT (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 CPRT stock trading near $32.45, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed CPRT chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are CPRT 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 CPRT strangle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 40.60%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$142.50 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a CPRT strangle?
- The breakeven for the CPRT strangle priced on this page is roughly $28.58 and $36.43 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 CPRT market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 11.64%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a strangle on CPRT?
- Strangles on CPRT 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 CPRT chain.
- How does current CPRT implied volatility affect this strangle?
- CPRT ATM IV is at 40.60% with IV rank near 8.02%, 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.