KSS - Kohl's Corporation
Kohl's Corporation operates as a retail company in the United States. It offers branded apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty, and home products through its stores and website. The company provides its products primarily under the brand names of Apt.
As of May 14, 2026: spot at $12.02, ATM IV 86.3%, max pain $15.00, net GEX -$311.7K.
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Department Stores
- Market Cap
- $1.36B
- P/E Ratio
- 4.99
- Beta
- 1.49
- 52-Week Range
- 7.47-25.22
- Dividend Yield
- $0.50
- CEO
- Michael J. Bender
- Employees
- 87,000
- IPO Date
- May 19, 1992
- Exchange
- NYSE
What KSS Looks Like to Options Traders Today
IV rank of 32.7% sits near the 1-year median, where strategy choice depends on directional conviction and the event calendar rather than vol regime alone; negative net gamma exposure (-$311.7K) means dealers hedge with trend, amplifying realized volatility and accelerating directional moves; the 25-delta skew (0.000) is roughly flat across the wings.
What This Page Covers
The KSS overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure. Corporate data is on fundamentals, earnings, analyst ratings, and insider trading.
Frequently asked KSS overview questions
- What is KSS?
- KSS is the ticker symbol for Kohl's Corporation, a listed security. Kohl's Corporation operates as a retail company in the United States. It offers branded apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty, and home products through its stores and website. Listed on NYSE. KSS is the equity ticker shown on this page; equity options traders use the security for directional, volatility, and income strategies via the listed options chain.
- What does the KSS options snapshot look like today?
- As of May 14, 2026, the KSS options snapshot shows spot at $12.02, ATM IV 86.3%, IV rank 32.7%, max pain $15.00, net GEX -$311.7K, expected move 24.73%. The full options chain, Greeks by strike and expiration, per-strike open-interest distribution, dealer gamma and delta exposure, and the volatility skew surface are linked from this overview page. Each per-metric route refreshes once per trading session and reflects the most recent close-of-business listed-options state.
- What are KSS's key statistics?
- Kohl's Corporation (KSS) carries a market capitalization of $1.36B, trailing P/E ratio of 4.99, beta of 1.49 relative to the broader market, 52-week range of 7.47-25.22. Full income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and TTM ratio history is on the per-ticker fundamentals page; daily price history and 52-week levels are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the options market prices implied volatility around earnings windows and capital events.
- What sector or industry does KSS belong to?
- Kohl's Corporation operates in the Consumer Cyclical sector, in the Department Stores industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare KSS's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the KSS data on this page?
- The options snapshot above is dated May 14, 2026 and refreshes once per session, with all per-strike Greeks and exposure aggregates recomputed at the daily close. Company-profile fields (sector, industry, market cap, P/E, IPO date) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. Financials and earnings refresh as 10-K and 10-Q filings are parsed (typically within several business days of the actual report). FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence (daily for short volume, bi-monthly for short interest, weekly for the OTC volume file, twice-monthly for SEC FTD).