OBK Collar Strategy
OBK (Origin Bancorp, Inc.), in the Financial Services sector, (Banks - Regional industry), listed on NYSE.
Origin Bancorp, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for Origin Bank that provides banking and financial services to small and medium-sized businesses, municipalities, and retail clients in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. It offers noninterest and interest-bearing checking accounts, savings deposits, money market accounts, and time deposits; and offers commercial real estate, construction and land development, consumer, residential real estate, commercial and industrial, mortgage warehouse, residential mortgage, and paycheck protection program loans. The company also offers personal and commercial property, and casualty insurance products; and Internet banking and voice response information, mobile applications, cash management, overdraft protection, direct deposit, safe deposit box, U.S. savings bonds, and automatic account transfer services; and treasury management, mortgage origination and servicing facilities, peer-to-peer electronic pay solutions, and personal financial management solutions. The company was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Ruston, Louisiana.
OBK (Origin Bancorp, Inc.) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Banks - Regional, with a market capitalization of approximately $1.41B, a trailing P/E of 17.58, a beta of 0.73 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 32.125-48.12, average daily share volume of 185K, a public-listing history dating back to 2018, approximately 1K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how OBK stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.73 places OBK roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. OBK pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a collar on OBK?
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 OBK snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $45.27, ATM IV 34.60%, IV rank 12.93%, expected move 9.92%. The collar on OBK 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 collar structure on OBK specifically: IV regime affects collar pricing on both sides; compressed OBK IV at 34.60% typically pushes the short call premium to roughly offset the long put cost, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 9.92% (roughly $4.49 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 OBK expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on OBK should anchor to the underlying notional of $45.27 per share and to the trader's directional view on OBK stock.
OBK collar setup
The OBK 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 OBK near $45.27, the first option leg uses a $47.53 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed OBK 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 OBK shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 100 shares | Stock | $45.27 | long |
| Sell 1 | Call | $47.53 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $43.01 | N/A |
OBK 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.
OBK collar payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the collar on OBK. 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 OBK
Collars on OBK hedge an existing long OBK 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.
OBK thesis for this collar
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for OBK extends from approximately $40.78 on the downside to $49.76 on the upside. A OBK collar hedges an existing long OBK 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 OBK IV rank near 12.93% 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 OBK at 34.60%. As a Financial Services name, OBK options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to OBK-specific events.
OBK 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. OBK positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move OBK alongside the broader basket even when OBK-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current OBK chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a collar on OBK?
- A collar on OBK is the collar strategy applied to OBK (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 OBK stock trading near $45.27, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed OBK chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are OBK 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 OBK collar priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 34.60%), 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 OBK collar?
- The breakeven for the OBK 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 OBK market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 9.92%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a collar on OBK?
- Collars on OBK hedge an existing long OBK 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 OBK implied volatility affect this collar?
- OBK ATM IV is at 34.60% with IV rank near 12.93%, 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.