DV Butterfly Strategy
DV (DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc.), in the Technology sector, (Software - Application industry), listed on NYSE.
DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc. offers a comprehensive software platform designed for measuring, analyzing, and providing data insights for digital media, serving clients both domestically and across global markets. Through its various offerings, the company equips advertisers with impartial data analytics, empowering them to significantly enhance the impact, integrity, and financial returns of their online advertising campaigns. Among its core solutions is DV Authentic Ad, a crucial tool for assessing digital media quality by scrutinizing factors such as advertising fraud, brand suitability, ad viewability, and geographic placement for every individual digital advertisement. Another is the DV Authentic Attention solution, which furnishes predictive analytics on audience exposure and engagement, thereby optimizing campaign efficacy. Additionally, the Custom Contextual solution enables advertisers to strategically align their advertisements with pertinent content, thereby maximizing user interaction and boosting overall campaign results. The company also features the DV Publisher Suite, a specialized offering for digital publishers.
DV (DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc.) trades in the Technology sector, specifically Software - Application, with a market capitalization of approximately $2.04B, a trailing P/E of 34.76, a beta of 0.97 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 7.64-16.44, average daily share volume of 3.2M, a public-listing history dating back to 2021, approximately 1K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how DV stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.97 places DV roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. DV pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a butterfly on DV?
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.
DV snapshot
As of August 14, 2026, spot at $13.29, ATM IV 8.90%, IV rank 1.59%, expected move 2.55%. The butterfly on DV below is built from the end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 35-day expiry.
Why this butterfly structure on DV specifically: DV IV at 8.90% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a DV butterfly, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 2.55% (roughly $0.34 on the underlying). The 35-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated DV expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on DV should anchor to the underlying notional of $13.29 per share and to the trader's directional view on DV stock.
DV butterfly setup
The DV 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 DV at $13.29 on that close, the first option leg uses a $12.63 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed DV chain at a 35-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 DV shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $12.63 | N/A |
| Sell 2 | Call | $13.29 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Call | $13.95 | N/A |
DV butterfly 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 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.
DV butterfly payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the butterfly on DV. 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 butterfly on DV
Butterflies on DV are pinning bets - traders use them when they expect DV 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.
DV thesis for this butterfly
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for DV extends from approximately $12.95 on the downside to $13.63 on the upside. A DV long call butterfly is a pinning play: it pays maximum at the middle strike if DV settles there at expiration, with the wing legs capping both the cost and the maximum loss to the net debit. Current DV IV rank near 1.59% 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 DV at 8.90%. As a Technology name, DV options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to DV-specific events.
DV 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. DV positions also carry Technology sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move DV alongside the broader basket even when DV-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current DV chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a butterfly on DV?
- A butterfly on DV is the butterfly strategy applied to DV (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 DV stock at $13.29 on the most recent close, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed DV chain strike and the premiums come straight from that session's bid/ask midpoint.
- How are DV 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 DV butterfly priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 8.90%), 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 DV butterfly?
- The breakeven for the DV butterfly priced on this page is no defined breakeven on the modeled curve at expiration, derived from the end-of-day chain's premiums. Breakeven is the underlying price at which the strategy's P&L crosses zero ignoring transaction costs and assignment risk. The DV market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move in the same options snapshot is approximately 2.55%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a butterfly on DV?
- Butterflies on DV are pinning bets - traders use them when they expect DV 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 DV implied volatility affect this butterfly?
- DV ATM IV is at 8.90% with IV rank near 1.59%, 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.