CVRX Bear Put Spread Strategy
CVRX (CVRx, Inc.), in the Healthcare sector, (Medical - Devices industry), listed on NASDAQ.
CVRx, Inc., a commercial-stage medical device company, focuses on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing neuromodulation solutions for patients with cardiovascular diseases. It offers Barostim, a neuromodulation device indicated to improve symptoms for patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction or systolic HF. The company sells its products through direct sales force, as well as sales agents and independent distributors in the United States, Germany, rest of Europe, and internationally. CVRx, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
CVRX (CVRx, Inc.) trades in the Healthcare sector, specifically Medical - Devices, with a market capitalization of approximately $138.0M, a beta of 0.87 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 4.37-11.3, average daily share volume of 321K, a public-listing history dating back to 2021, approximately 206 full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how CVRX stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.87 places CVRX roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline.
What is a bear put spread on CVRX?
A bear put spread buys an at-the-money put and sells an out-of-the-money put at a lower strike for defined risk and defined reward bounded by the strike width.
Current CVRX snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $5.96, ATM IV 71.40%, IV rank 10.56%, expected move 20.47%. The bear put spread on CVRX 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 bear put spread structure on CVRX specifically: CVRX IV at 71.40% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a CVRX bear put spread, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 20.47% (roughly $1.22 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 CVRX expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on CVRX should anchor to the underlying notional of $5.96 per share and to the trader's directional view on CVRX stock.
CVRX bear put spread setup
The CVRX bear put spread below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With CVRX near $5.96, the first option leg uses a $5.96 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed CVRX 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 CVRX shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Put | $5.96 | N/A |
| Sell 1 | Put | $5.66 | N/A |
CVRX bear put spread 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 strike width minus net debit times 100; max loss equals net debit times 100. Breakeven is long-put strike minus net debit.
CVRX bear put spread payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the bear put spread on CVRX. 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 bear put spread on CVRX
Bear put spreads on CVRX reduce the cost of a bearish CVRX stock position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
CVRX thesis for this bear put spread
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for CVRX extends from approximately $4.74 on the downside to $7.18 on the upside. A CVRX bear put spread caps both the risk and the reward of a bearish position; relative to an outright long put on CVRX, the spread reduces the cost basis but limits the maximum profit to the strike width minus net debit. Current CVRX IV rank near 10.56% 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 CVRX at 71.40%. As a Healthcare name, CVRX options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to CVRX-specific events.
CVRX bear put spread positions are structurally moderately bearish; 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. CVRX positions also carry Healthcare sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move CVRX alongside the broader basket even when CVRX-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a bear put spread on CVRX 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 CVRX chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a bear put spread on CVRX?
- A bear put spread on CVRX is the bear put spread strategy applied to CVRX (stock). The strategy is structurally moderately bearish: A bear put spread buys an at-the-money put and sells an out-of-the-money put at a lower strike for defined risk and defined reward bounded by the strike width. With CVRX stock trading near $5.96, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed CVRX chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are CVRX bear put spread max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals strike width minus net debit times 100; max loss equals net debit times 100. Breakeven is long-put strike minus net debit. For the CVRX bear put spread priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 71.40%), 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 CVRX bear put spread?
- The breakeven for the CVRX bear put spread 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 CVRX market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 20.47%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a bear put spread on CVRX?
- Bear put spreads on CVRX reduce the cost of a bearish CVRX stock position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
- How does current CVRX implied volatility affect this bear put spread?
- CVRX ATM IV is at 71.40% with IV rank near 10.56%, 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.