EZPW Collar Strategy
EZPW (EZCORP, Inc.), in the Financial Services sector, (Financial - Credit Services industry), listed on NASDAQ.
EZCORP, Inc. provides pawn loans in the United States and Latin America. It offers pawn loans collateralized by tangible personal property, jewelry, consumer electronics, tools, sporting goods, and musical instruments. The company also sells merchandise, primarily collateral forfeited from pawn lending operations and pre-owned merchandise purchased from customers. In addition, it offers Lana and EZ+ web-based engagement platforms to manage pawn loans. As of September 30, 2021, the company owned and operated 516 pawn stores in the United States; 508 pawn stores in Mexico; and 124 pawn stores in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. EZCORP, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
EZPW (EZCORP, Inc.) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Financial - Credit Services, with a market capitalization of approximately $1.94B, a trailing P/E of 13.87, a beta of 0.66 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 12.85-37.13, average daily share volume of 807K, a public-listing history dating back to 1991, approximately 8K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how EZPW stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.66 indicates EZPW has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure.
What is a collar on EZPW?
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 EZPW snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $32.70, ATM IV 35.90%, IV rank 4.40%, expected move 10.29%. The collar on EZPW 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 EZPW specifically: IV regime affects collar pricing on both sides; compressed EZPW IV at 35.90% typically pushes the short call premium to roughly offset the long put cost, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 10.29% (roughly $3.37 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 EZPW expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on EZPW should anchor to the underlying notional of $32.70 per share and to the trader's directional view on EZPW stock.
EZPW collar setup
The EZPW 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 EZPW near $32.70, the first option leg uses a $34.34 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed EZPW 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 EZPW shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 100 shares | Stock | $32.70 | long |
| Sell 1 | Call | $34.34 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $31.07 | N/A |
EZPW 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.
EZPW collar payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the collar on EZPW. 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 EZPW
Collars on EZPW hedge an existing long EZPW 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.
EZPW thesis for this collar
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for EZPW extends from approximately $29.33 on the downside to $36.07 on the upside. A EZPW collar hedges an existing long EZPW 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 EZPW IV rank near 4.40% 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 EZPW at 35.90%. As a Financial Services name, EZPW options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to EZPW-specific events.
EZPW 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. EZPW positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move EZPW alongside the broader basket even when EZPW-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current EZPW chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a collar on EZPW?
- A collar on EZPW is the collar strategy applied to EZPW (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 EZPW stock trading near $32.70, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed EZPW chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are EZPW 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 EZPW collar priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 35.90%), 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 EZPW collar?
- The breakeven for the EZPW 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 EZPW market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 10.29%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a collar on EZPW?
- Collars on EZPW hedge an existing long EZPW 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 EZPW implied volatility affect this collar?
- EZPW ATM IV is at 35.90% with IV rank near 4.40%, 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.