How are HCI 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 HCI collar priced from the August 14, 2026 end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 28.20%), the computed maximum profit is $998.00 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$1,002.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.

What is the breakeven for a HCI collar?

The breakeven for the HCI collar priced on this page is roughly $185.02 at expiration, derived from the August 14, 2026 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 HCI market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move in the same options snapshot is approximately 8.08%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.

How does current HCI implied volatility affect this collar?

HCI ATM IV is at 28.20% with IV rank near 0.94%, 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.

HCI Collar Strategy

HCI (HCI Group, Inc.), in the Financial Services sector, (Insurance - Property & Casualty industry), listed on NYSE.

Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, HCI Group, Inc., originally established in 2006 as Homeowners Choice, Inc. before its name change in May 2013, is a diversified holding company. It conducts business across four main segments: property and casualty insurance, reinsurance, real estate, and information technology. Within Florida, the company underwrites residential insurance policies for homeowners, condominium owners, and tenants, offering coverage types such as homeowners, fire, flood, and wind-only, alongside reinsurance services. Its real estate portfolio encompasses ownership and management of waterfront properties, retail shopping centers, an office building, and various commercial investment properties. Additionally, HCI Group's technology division designs and builds web-based applications and mobile solutions, including its online policy administration platforms SAMS and Harmony, the end-to-end claims management system ClaimColony, and the mapping and data visualization tool AtlasViewer.

HCI (HCI Group, Inc.) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Insurance - Property & Casualty, with a market capitalization of approximately $2.34B, a trailing P/E of 6.74, a beta of 1.03 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 144.75-210.5, average daily share volume of 189K, a public-listing history dating back to 2008, approximately 594 full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how HCI stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.

A beta of 1.03 places HCI roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 6.74 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price. HCI pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.

What is a collar on HCI?

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.

HCI snapshot

As of August 14, 2026, spot at $185.32, ATM IV 28.20%, IV rank 0.94%, expected move 8.08%. The collar on HCI below is built from the August 14, 2026 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 collar structure on HCI specifically: IV regime affects collar pricing on both sides; compressed HCI IV at 28.20% typically pushes the short call premium to roughly offset the long put cost, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 8.08% (roughly $14.98 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 HCI expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on HCI should anchor to the underlying notional of $185.32 per share and to the trader's directional view on HCI stock.

HCI collar setup

The HCI collar below is built from the August 14, 2026 end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With HCI at $185.32 on that close, the first option leg uses a $195.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed HCI 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 HCI shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).

Action	Type	Strike / Basis	Premium (est)
Buy 100 shares	Stock	$185.32	long
Sell 1	Call	$195.00	$3.28
Buy 1	Put	$175.00	$2.98

HCI collar risk and reward

Net Premium / Debit: -$18,502.00
Max Profit (per contract): $998.00
Max Loss (per contract): -$1,002.00
Breakeven(s): $185.02
Risk / Reward Ratio: 0.996

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.

HCI collar payoff curve

Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the collar on HCI. 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.

P&L at expiration across the modeled underlying-price range. Green shading marks profitable regions, red shading marks loss regions. Dotted purple verticals mark breakevens; the solid dark vertical marks current spot.

Underlying Price	% From Spot	P&L at Expiration
$0.01	-100.0%	-$1,002.00
$40.98	-77.9%	-$1,002.00
$81.96	-55.8%	-$1,002.00
$122.93	-33.7%	-$1,002.00
$163.91	-11.6%	-$1,002.00
$204.88	+10.6%	+$998.00
$245.86	+32.7%	+$998.00
$286.83	+54.8%	+$998.00
$327.80	+76.9%	+$998.00
$368.78	+99.0%	+$998.00

When traders use collar on HCI

Collars on HCI hedge an existing long HCI 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.

HCI thesis for this collar

The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for HCI extends from approximately $170.34 on the downside to $200.30 on the upside. A HCI collar hedges an existing long HCI 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 HCI IV rank near 0.94% 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 HCI at 28.20%. As a Financial Services name, HCI options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to HCI-specific events.

HCI 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. HCI positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move HCI alongside the broader basket even when HCI-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current HCI chain quotes before placing a trade.

Frequently asked questions

What is a collar on HCI?: A collar on HCI is the collar strategy applied to HCI (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 HCI stock at $185.32 on the August 14, 2026 close, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed HCI chain strike and the premiums come straight from that session's bid/ask midpoint.
How are HCI 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 HCI collar priced from the August 14, 2026 end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 28.20%), the computed maximum profit is $998.00 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$1,002.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
What is the breakeven for a HCI collar?: The breakeven for the HCI collar priced on this page is roughly $185.02 at expiration, derived from the August 14, 2026 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 HCI market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move in the same options snapshot is approximately 8.08%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
When should you consider a collar on HCI?: Collars on HCI hedge an existing long HCI 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 HCI implied volatility affect this collar?: HCI ATM IV is at 28.20% with IV rank near 0.94%, 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.