ICFI Cash-Secured Put Strategy
ICFI (ICF International, Inc.), in the Industrials sector, (Consulting Services industry), listed on NASDAQ.
ICF International, Inc. provides management, marketing, technology, and policy consulting and implementation services to government and commercial clients in the United States and internationally. It researches critical policy, industry, stakeholder issues, trends, and behaviors; measures and evaluates results and their impact; and provides strategic planning and advisory services to its clients on how to navigate societal, market, business, communication, and technology challenges. The company also identifies, defines, and implements policies, plans, programs, and business tools through a range of standard and customized methodologies for its clients; conducts survey research; collects and analyzes various data to understand critical issues and options for its clients; and provides actionable business intelligence, as well as information and data management solutions that allow integrated and purpose-driven data usage. In addition, it provides solutions to optimize the customer and citizen experience; modernizes IT systems; and cyber security solutions that support the range of cyber security missions and protect IT infrastructures in the face of relentless threats, as well as designs, develops, and implements technology systems and business tools that are principal to its clients' mission or business performance. Further, the company informs and engages its clients' constituents, customers, and employees through public relations, branding and marketing, multichannel and strategic communications, and reputation issues management. It serves energy, environment, and infrastructure; health, education, and social programs; safety and security; and consumer and financial markets.
ICFI (ICF International, Inc.) trades in the Industrials sector, specifically Consulting Services, with a market capitalization of approximately $1.08B, a trailing P/E of 12.82, a beta of 0.57 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 58.83-101.71, average daily share volume of 362K, a public-listing history dating back to 2006, approximately 9K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how ICFI stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.57 indicates ICFI has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. ICFI pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a cash-secured put on ICFI?
A cash-secured put sells an out-of-the-money put while holding cash equal to the strike-times-100 obligation, keeping the premium when the underlying stays above the strike.
Current ICFI snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $61.23, ATM IV 32.30%, IV rank 2.72%, expected move 9.26%. The cash-secured put on ICFI 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 cash-secured put structure on ICFI specifically: ICFI IV at 32.30% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which means a premium-selling ICFI cash-secured put collects less credit per unit of strike-width risk, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 9.26% (roughly $5.67 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 ICFI expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on ICFI should anchor to the underlying notional of $61.23 per share and to the trader's directional view on ICFI stock.
ICFI cash-secured put setup
The ICFI cash-secured put below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With ICFI near $61.23, the first option leg uses a $60.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed ICFI 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 ICFI shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell 1 | Put | $60.00 | $3.05 |
ICFI cash-secured put risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- +$305.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- $305.00
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$5,694.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $56.95
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- 0.054
Max profit equals premium times 100; max loss equals strike minus premium times 100 (at zero, assuming assignment). Breakeven is strike minus premium.
ICFI cash-secured put payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the cash-secured put on ICFI. 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% | -$5,694.00 |
| $13.55 | -77.9% | -$4,340.28 |
| $27.08 | -55.8% | -$2,986.56 |
| $40.62 | -33.7% | -$1,632.84 |
| $54.16 | -11.5% | -$279.13 |
| $67.70 | +10.6% | +$305.00 |
| $81.23 | +32.7% | +$305.00 |
| $94.77 | +54.8% | +$305.00 |
| $108.31 | +76.9% | +$305.00 |
| $121.84 | +99.0% | +$305.00 |
When traders use cash-secured put on ICFI
Cash-secured puts on ICFI earn premium while a trader waits to acquire ICFI stock at a target strike below the current quote; most attractive when IV is rich and the trader is comfortable owning ICFI.
ICFI thesis for this cash-secured put
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for ICFI extends from approximately $55.56 on the downside to $66.90 on the upside. A ICFI cash-secured put lets a trader earn premium while waiting to acquire ICFI at the strike price; the strategy is most attractive when the trader is comfortable holding the underlying at that level and IV is rich enough to compensate for the assignment risk. Current ICFI IV rank near 2.72% 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 ICFI at 32.30%. As a Industrials name, ICFI options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to ICFI-specific events.
ICFI cash-secured put positions are structurally neutral to slightly bullish; 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. ICFI positions also carry Industrials sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move ICFI alongside the broader basket even when ICFI-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Short-premium structures like a cash-secured put on ICFI carry tail risk when realized volatility exceeds the implied move; review historical ICFI earnings reactions and macro stress periods before sizing. Always rebuild the position from current ICFI chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a cash-secured put on ICFI?
- A cash-secured put on ICFI is the cash-secured put strategy applied to ICFI (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral to slightly bullish: A cash-secured put sells an out-of-the-money put while holding cash equal to the strike-times-100 obligation, keeping the premium when the underlying stays above the strike. With ICFI stock trading near $61.23, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed ICFI chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are ICFI cash-secured put max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals premium times 100; max loss equals strike minus premium times 100 (at zero, assuming assignment). Breakeven is strike minus premium. For the ICFI cash-secured put priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 32.30%), the computed maximum profit is $305.00 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$5,694.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a ICFI cash-secured put?
- The breakeven for the ICFI cash-secured put priced on this page is roughly $56.95 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 ICFI market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 9.26%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a cash-secured put on ICFI?
- Cash-secured puts on ICFI earn premium while a trader waits to acquire ICFI stock at a target strike below the current quote; most attractive when IV is rich and the trader is comfortable owning ICFI.
- How does current ICFI implied volatility affect this cash-secured put?
- ICFI ATM IV is at 32.30% with IV rank near 2.72%, 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.