DXLG Collar Strategy
DXLG (Destination XL Group, Inc.), in the Consumer Cyclical sector, (Apparel - Retail industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Destination XL Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty retailer of big and tall men's clothing and shoes in the United States and Canada. Its stores offer sportswear and dresswear; fashion-neutral items, including jeans, casual slacks, T-shirts, polo shirts, dress shirts, and suit separates; and casual clothing. It also provides tailored-related separates, blazers, dress slacks, dress shirts, and neckwear; and vintage-screen T-shirts and wovens under various private labels. The company offers its products under the trade names of Destination XL, DXL, DXL Men's Apparel, DXL outlets, Casual Male XL, and Casual Male XL outlets. As of January 29, 2022, it operated 220 DXL retail stores, 16 DXL outlet stores, 35 Casual Male XL retail stores, and 19 Casual Male XL outlet stores; an e-commerce site, dxl.com; a mobile site, m.destinationXL.com; and mobile app. The company was formerly known as Casual Male Retail Group, Inc. and changed its name to Destination XL Group, Inc. in February 2013.
DXLG (Destination XL Group, Inc.) trades in the Consumer Cyclical sector, specifically Apparel - Retail, with a market capitalization of approximately $36.2M, a beta of 1.23 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 0.44-1.69, average daily share volume of 153K, a public-listing history dating back to 1987, approximately 1K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how DXLG stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 1.23 places DXLG roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline.
What is a collar on DXLG?
A collar pairs long stock with a protective out-of-the-money put financed by a short out-of-the-money call, capping both tails of the position around the current spot.
Current DXLG snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $0.71, ATM IV 20.70%, IV rank 0.71%, expected move 5.93%. The collar on DXLG 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 collar structure on DXLG specifically: IV regime affects collar pricing on both sides; compressed DXLG IV at 20.70% typically pushes the short call premium to roughly offset the long put cost, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 5.93% (roughly $0.04 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 DXLG expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on DXLG should anchor to the underlying notional of $0.71 per share and to the trader's directional view on DXLG stock.
DXLG collar setup
The DXLG collar below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With DXLG near $0.71, the first option leg uses a $0.75 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed DXLG 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 DXLG shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 100 shares | Stock | $0.71 | long |
| Sell 1 | Call | $0.75 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $0.67 | N/A |
DXLG collar 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 roughly equals short-call strike minus cost basis plus net premium; max loss roughly equals cost basis minus long-put strike minus net premium. Breakeven shifts by the net premium.
DXLG collar payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the collar on DXLG. 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 collar on DXLG
Collars on DXLG hedge an existing long DXLG stock position; the long put sets a floor while the short call finances it, often run as a near-zero-cost hedge during expected volatility windows.
DXLG thesis for this collar
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for DXLG extends from approximately $0.67 on the downside to $0.75 on the upside. A DXLG collar hedges an existing long DXLG position with a protective put while financing the put cost via a short call; when the premiums roughly offset, the collar acts as a near-zero-cost insurance band around the current spot. Current DXLG IV rank near 0.71% 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 DXLG at 20.70%. As a Consumer Cyclical name, DXLG options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to DXLG-specific events.
DXLG collar positions are structurally neutral (protective); 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. DXLG positions also carry Consumer Cyclical sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move DXLG alongside the broader basket even when DXLG-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current DXLG chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a collar on DXLG?
- A collar on DXLG is the collar strategy applied to DXLG (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral (protective): A collar pairs long stock with a protective out-of-the-money put financed by a short out-of-the-money call, capping both tails of the position around the current spot. With DXLG stock trading near $0.71, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed DXLG chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are DXLG collar max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit roughly equals short-call strike minus cost basis plus net premium; max loss roughly equals cost basis minus long-put strike minus net premium. Breakeven shifts by the net premium. For the DXLG collar priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 20.70%), 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 DXLG collar?
- The breakeven for the DXLG collar 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 DXLG market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 5.93%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a collar on DXLG?
- Collars on DXLG hedge an existing long DXLG stock position; the long put sets a floor while the short call finances it, often run as a near-zero-cost hedge during expected volatility windows.
- How does current DXLG implied volatility affect this collar?
- DXLG ATM IV is at 20.70% with IV rank near 0.71%, 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.