GTX Bear Put Spread Strategy
GTX (Garrett Motion Inc.), in the Consumer Cyclical sector, (Auto - Parts industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Garrett Motion Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells turbocharger and electric-boosting technologies for light and commercial vehicle original equipment manufacturers worldwide. The company offers light vehicle gasoline and diesel, and commercial vehicle turbochargers; and provides automotive software solutions. It offers its products in the aftermarket through distributors. Garrett Motion Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Rolle, Switzerland.
GTX (Garrett Motion Inc.) trades in the Consumer Cyclical sector, specifically Auto - Parts, with a market capitalization of approximately $5.87B, a trailing P/E of 17.30, a beta of 0.70 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 9.57-31.58, average daily share volume of 2.5M, a public-listing history dating back to 2018, approximately 7K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how GTX stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.70 indicates GTX has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. GTX pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a bear put spread on GTX?
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 GTX snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $30.98, ATM IV 57.00%, IV rank 10.39%, expected move 16.34%. The bear put spread on GTX 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 GTX specifically: GTX IV at 57.00% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a GTX bear put spread, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 16.34% (roughly $5.06 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 GTX expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on GTX should anchor to the underlying notional of $30.98 per share and to the trader's directional view on GTX stock.
GTX bear put spread setup
The GTX 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 GTX near $30.98, the first option leg uses a $31.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed GTX 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 GTX shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Put | $31.00 | $2.08 |
| Sell 1 | Put | $29.00 | $0.85 |
GTX bear put spread risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$122.50
- Max Profit (per contract)
- $77.50
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$122.50
- Breakeven(s)
- $29.78
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- 0.633
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.
GTX bear put spread payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the bear put spread on GTX. 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% | +$77.50 |
| $6.86 | -77.9% | +$77.50 |
| $13.71 | -55.8% | +$77.50 |
| $20.56 | -33.6% | +$77.50 |
| $27.40 | -11.5% | +$77.50 |
| $34.25 | +10.6% | -$122.50 |
| $41.10 | +32.7% | -$122.50 |
| $47.95 | +54.8% | -$122.50 |
| $54.80 | +76.9% | -$122.50 |
| $61.65 | +99.0% | -$122.50 |
When traders use bear put spread on GTX
Bear put spreads on GTX reduce the cost of a bearish GTX stock position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
GTX thesis for this bear put spread
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for GTX extends from approximately $25.92 on the downside to $36.04 on the upside. A GTX bear put spread caps both the risk and the reward of a bearish position; relative to an outright long put on GTX, the spread reduces the cost basis but limits the maximum profit to the strike width minus net debit. Current GTX IV rank near 10.39% 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 GTX at 57.00%. As a Consumer Cyclical name, GTX options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to GTX-specific events.
GTX 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. GTX positions also carry Consumer Cyclical sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move GTX alongside the broader basket even when GTX-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a bear put spread on GTX 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 GTX chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a bear put spread on GTX?
- A bear put spread on GTX is the bear put spread strategy applied to GTX (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 GTX stock trading near $30.98, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed GTX chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are GTX 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 GTX bear put spread priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 57.00%), the computed maximum profit is $77.50 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$122.50 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a GTX bear put spread?
- The breakeven for the GTX bear put spread priced on this page is roughly $29.78 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 GTX market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 16.34%; 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 GTX?
- Bear put spreads on GTX reduce the cost of a bearish GTX 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 GTX implied volatility affect this bear put spread?
- GTX ATM IV is at 57.00% with IV rank near 10.39%, 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.