KINS Collar Strategy
KINS (Kingstone Companies, Inc.), in the Financial Services sector, (Insurance - Property & Casualty industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Kingstone Companies, Inc., through its operating entity Kingstone Insurance Company, focuses on delivering property and casualty insurance to individual clients across New York. The firm's product range encompasses various personal lines, including coverage for homeowners, multi-peril dwelling fire incidents, cooperative and condominium units, renters, and personal umbrella liability. Beyond personal policies, Kingstone also offers specialized physical damage-only insurance for commercial for-hire vehicles such as livery cars, car services, and taxicabs, alongside canine legal liability policies and reinsurance solutions. Its offerings are distributed through a broad network of retail and wholesale agents and brokers. Founded in 1886 and headquartered in Kingston, New York, the company was formerly known as DCAP Group, Inc., prior to its name change in July 2009.
KINS (Kingstone Companies, Inc.) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Insurance - Property & Casualty, with a market capitalization of approximately $263.5M, a trailing P/E of 8.46, a beta of 0.48 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 13.08-19.42, average daily share volume of 130K, a public-listing history dating back to 1999, approximately 99 full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how KINS stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.48 indicates KINS has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. The trailing P/E of 8.46 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price. KINS pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a collar on KINS?
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 KINS snapshot
As of June 26, 2026, spot at $17.88, ATM IV 47.50%, IV rank 8.77%, expected move 13.62%. The collar on KINS 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 21-day expiry.
Why this collar structure on KINS specifically: IV regime affects collar pricing on both sides; compressed KINS IV at 47.50% typically pushes the short call premium to roughly offset the long put cost, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 13.62% (roughly $2.43 on the underlying). The 21-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated KINS expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on KINS should anchor to the underlying notional of $17.88 per share and to the trader's directional view on KINS stock.
KINS collar setup
The KINS 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 KINS near $17.88, the first option leg uses a $18.77 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed KINS chain at a 21-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 KINS shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 100 shares | Stock | $17.88 | long |
| Sell 1 | Call | $18.77 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $16.99 | N/A |
KINS 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.
KINS collar payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the collar on KINS. 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 KINS
Collars on KINS hedge an existing long KINS 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.
KINS thesis for this collar
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for KINS extends from approximately $15.45 on the downside to $20.31 on the upside. A KINS collar hedges an existing long KINS 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 KINS IV rank near 8.77% 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 KINS at 47.50%. As a Financial Services name, KINS options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to KINS-specific events.
KINS 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. KINS positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move KINS alongside the broader basket even when KINS-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current KINS chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a collar on KINS?
- A collar on KINS is the collar strategy applied to KINS (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 KINS stock trading near $17.88, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed KINS chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are KINS 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 KINS collar priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 47.50%), 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 KINS collar?
- The breakeven for the KINS 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 KINS market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 13.62%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a collar on KINS?
- Collars on KINS hedge an existing long KINS 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 KINS implied volatility affect this collar?
- KINS ATM IV is at 47.50% with IV rank near 8.77%, 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.