How are DAR butterfly max profit and max loss calculated?

Max profit equals the wing width minus net debit times 100 (reached when the underlying pins the middle strike); max loss equals the net debit times 100. Two breakevens at lower-wing plus debit and upper-wing minus debit. For the DAR butterfly priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 40.20%), the computed maximum profit is $188.00 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$50.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.

What is the breakeven for a DAR butterfly?

The breakeven for the DAR butterfly priced on this page is roughly $60.50 and $64.50 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 DAR market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 11.53%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.

How does current DAR implied volatility affect this butterfly?

DAR ATM IV is at 40.20% with IV rank near 7.53%, 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.

DAR Butterfly Strategy

DAR (Darling Ingredients Inc.), in the Consumer Defensive sector, (Packaged Foods industry), listed on NYSE.

Darling Ingredients Inc. develops, produces, and sells natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients. The company operates through three segments: Feed Ingredients, Food Ingredients, and Fuel Ingredients. It offers ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, feed, industrial, fuel, bioenergy, and fertilizer industries. The company also collects and transforms various animal by-product streams into useable and specialty ingredients, such as collagen, edible fats, feed-grade fats, animal proteins and meals, plasma, pet food ingredients, organic fertilizers, yellow grease, fuel feedstock, green energy, natural casings, and hides. In addition, it recovers and converts used cooking oil and animal fats, and residual bakery products into valuable feed and fuel ingredients. Further, the company provides environmental services, including grease trap collection and disposal services to food service establishments.

DAR (Darling Ingredients Inc.) trades in the Consumer Defensive sector, specifically Packaged Foods, with a market capitalization of approximately $9.89B, a trailing P/E of 44.06, a beta of 1.07 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 29.15-66.02, average daily share volume of 3.1M, a public-listing history dating back to 1994, approximately 16K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how DAR stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.

A beta of 1.07 places DAR roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 44.06 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.

What is a butterfly on DAR?

A long call butterfly buys one lower-strike call, sells two ATM calls, and buys one higher-strike call, paying a small net debit for a defined-risk position that maxes out if the underlying pins the middle strike at expiration.

Current DAR snapshot

As of May 15, 2026, spot at $62.69, ATM IV 40.20%, IV rank 7.53%, expected move 11.53%. The butterfly on DAR 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 butterfly structure on DAR specifically: DAR IV at 40.20% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a DAR butterfly, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 11.53% (roughly $7.23 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 DAR expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on DAR should anchor to the underlying notional of $62.69 per share and to the trader's directional view on DAR stock.

DAR butterfly setup

The DAR butterfly below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With DAR near $62.69, the first option leg uses a $60.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed DAR 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 DAR shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).

Action	Type	Strike / Basis	Premium (est)
Buy 1	Call	$60.00	$4.80
Sell 2	Call	$62.50	$3.20
Buy 1	Call	$65.00	$2.10

DAR butterfly risk and reward

Net Premium / Debit: -$50.00
Max Profit (per contract): $188.00
Max Loss (per contract): -$50.00
Breakeven(s): $60.50, $64.50
Risk / Reward Ratio: 3.760

Max profit equals the wing width minus net debit times 100 (reached when the underlying pins the middle strike); max loss equals the net debit times 100. Two breakevens at lower-wing plus debit and upper-wing minus debit.

DAR butterfly payoff curve

Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the butterfly on DAR. 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%	-$50.00
$13.87	-77.9%	-$50.00
$27.73	-55.8%	-$50.00
$41.59	-33.7%	-$50.00
$55.45	-11.5%	-$50.00
$69.31	+10.6%	-$50.00
$83.17	+32.7%	-$50.00
$97.03	+54.8%	-$50.00
$110.89	+76.9%	-$50.00
$124.75	+99.0%	-$50.00

When traders use butterfly on DAR

Butterflies on DAR are pinning bets - traders use them when they expect DAR to settle near a specific level at expiration (often the prior close, a round number, or the max-pain strike) and want defined-risk exposure to that outcome.

DAR thesis for this butterfly

The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for DAR extends from approximately $55.46 on the downside to $69.92 on the upside. A DAR long call butterfly is a pinning play: it pays maximum at the middle strike if DAR settles there at expiration, with the wing legs capping both the cost and the maximum loss to the net debit. Current DAR IV rank near 7.53% 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 DAR at 40.20%. As a Consumer Defensive name, DAR options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to DAR-specific events.

DAR butterfly positions are structurally neutral / pin (limited-risk, limited-reward); 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. DAR positions also carry Consumer Defensive sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move DAR alongside the broader basket even when DAR-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current DAR chain quotes before placing a trade.

Frequently asked questions

What is a butterfly on DAR?: A butterfly on DAR is the butterfly strategy applied to DAR (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / pin (limited-risk, limited-reward): A long call butterfly buys one lower-strike call, sells two ATM calls, and buys one higher-strike call, paying a small net debit for a defined-risk position that maxes out if the underlying pins the middle strike at expiration. With DAR stock trading near $62.69, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed DAR chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
How are DAR butterfly max profit and max loss calculated?: Max profit equals the wing width minus net debit times 100 (reached when the underlying pins the middle strike); max loss equals the net debit times 100. Two breakevens at lower-wing plus debit and upper-wing minus debit. For the DAR butterfly priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 40.20%), the computed maximum profit is $188.00 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$50.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
What is the breakeven for a DAR butterfly?: The breakeven for the DAR butterfly priced on this page is roughly $60.50 and $64.50 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 DAR market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 11.53%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
When should you consider a butterfly on DAR?: Butterflies on DAR are pinning bets - traders use them when they expect DAR to settle near a specific level at expiration (often the prior close, a round number, or the max-pain strike) and want defined-risk exposure to that outcome.
How does current DAR implied volatility affect this butterfly?: DAR ATM IV is at 40.20% with IV rank near 7.53%, 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.